ODC Webinar
RE-HUMANIZE: HOW TO BUILD HUMAN-CENTRIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS
Phanish Puranam
Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD
--- 21st August 2025, Thursday at 9am EST/3pm CET ---
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms organizational structures and practices, a critical challenge emerges: how to design organizations that remain both effective and deeply human. This webinar explores the evolving relationship between technology and organizational design, arguing that the future of work depends on our capacity to balance two imperatives, goal-centricity and human-centricity. Drawing on insights from the presenter’s book Re-Humanize: How to Build Human-Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms, the presentation highlights that while AI offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance productivity and streamline decision-making, it also poses risks to autonomy, social connection, and individual competence. Human-centricity is not a peripheral concern but a strategic necessity, especially as organizations navigate the emerging era of human-machine collaboration. Designing for autonomy, connectedness, and skill development will be key to attract, retain and motivate the human talent required in AI-enhanced workplaces.
About the Speaker:
Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD and the Academic Director of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance. Phanish’s research in organization science focuses on how organizations work, and how we can make them work better. His current work focuses on different ways in which intelligent algorithms relate to organizations, in their roles as tools (e.g., machine learning applied to organizational data), team-mates (e.g., human-AI collaboration), and as templates for organizing (blockchain, metaverse). Besides publishing his research extensively in peer reviewed journals, Phanish has also written several books, such as The Microstructure of Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2018), Corporate Strategy: Tools for analysis and decisions (co-authored with Bart Vanneste, Cambridge University Press, 2016), India Inside (co-authored with Nirmalya Kumar, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), and most recently, Re-Humanize: How to build human centric organizations in the age of algorithms (Penguin Random House Publishers). Moreover, Phanish has received multiple international research awards.
Last date of registration is 20th August 2025, 9 am EST.
Hope you will be able to join us!
