Organizational Design Community News

New ODC-UN Webinar available on our YouTube Channel

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:44:45 GMT

The newest webinar in our Organizing for Good Campaign, "ODC-UN Panel on Technology & Labor Markets", is now available on our YouTube Channel!

Annual Conference 2021

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:29:33 GMT

More speakers confirmed for the ODC Annual Conference 2021! See who's been added and register by clicking here.

Organizing for Good: "Designing Sustainable Communities"

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:53:07 GMT

Our latest OFG webinar is now up on our YouTube Channel. Click here to watch it.

ASSIOA SUMMER SCHOOL 2021

Ruchika Mehra — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:06:17 GMT

ODC is happy to share details of the upcoming

ASSIOA SUMMER SCHOOL 2021
ADVANCED TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY

For more details Click

Latest Webinar : Agent Based Modeling

Ruchika Mehra — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:32:36 GMT

The video of the latest webinar is available on the webinar series page. All members can access the complete video, along with additional links to resources.

Podcast Series- Building Resilience

Ruchika Mehra — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:54:49 GMT

You can watch the latest podcast on Organizational Resilience through Evolutionary Lenses - Daniel Levinthal (Wharton School) on the youtube channel, following the link below:

https://youtu.be/M-_M_Gm_ybM

Webinar Video- Experimental Methods for Organization Design Researchers

Ruchika Mehra — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:26:07 GMT

Dear Members, The latest webinar video is available on the webinar page on the website.

Webinar video available "Using AI to build theory"

Ruchika Mehra — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:48:45 GMT

Latest webinar on "Using AI to Build Theory" is available on the webinar series webpage.

Webinar Video available "Machine Learning:A hands on Introduction"

Ruchika Mehra — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:38:58 GMT

The video of the latest webinar is available to ODC members.

Webinar Video Available- Organization Design and Power

Ruchika Mehra — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:46:28 GMT

The latest webinar "Organization Design and Power: by Jerry Davis is available for members.

Webinar Video Available Going way beyond “strategic design”– Implementing Organization Designs

Ruchika Mehra — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 11:34:42 GMT

The video of the latest webinar is available for ODC members on Website page Webinar series 20-21.

Webinar Video Available "The Art of Scoping out an Organization Design Project"

Ruchika Mehra — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:56:08 GMT

The webinar on "The Art of Scoping out an Organization Design Project" is available for ODC members.

Webinar Video available "Baldwin and Clark’s Design Rules I: Twenty years after"

Ruchika Mehra — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:40:11 GMT

Members can access the webinar "Baldwin and Clark’s Design Rules I: Twenty years after" on the website, under Webinar series 20-21.

Webinar: Studying Organizational Design using Qualitative Methods

Ruchika Mehra — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:44:38 GMT

Webinar on Studying Organizational Design using Qualitative Methods by Raghu Garud (Penn State University, USA) and Philipp Tuertscher (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) is uploaded on the website. Members can access the video.

Webinar: Mapping Complexity in Organization

Ruchika Mehra — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:18:06 GMT

The webinar "Mapping Complexity in Organization" by Nicolay Worren can be viewed by ODC members.

Webinar- “Unleashing the Power of Organizational Design for Cultural Transformation”- Rani Salman

Ruchika Mehra — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:43:51 GMT

The webinar “Unleashing the Power of Organizational Design for Cultural Transformation”by Rani Salman has been uploaded for members. You can follow the link on forum.

OTM: Neuroscience & Change: Impact on Accelerated Change Readiness

Ruchika Mehra — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Join Dan Schmitz as he guides us through recent neuroscience, its impact on change, and how On The Mark utilizes the science in our Accelerated Change Readiness solution. For more information https://on-the-mark.com/events/

ODC Conference 2020- Video Available

Ruchika Mehra — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:33:22 GMT

ODC Members can watch the ODC conference video available on the forum page.

Making Remote Work Podcast Episode #14 Julien Clement

Ruchika Mehra — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:39:06 GMT

The Episode #14 of Making Remote Work By Julien Clement of Standford. The podcast covers:

1. eSports and the learning on remote from this newly booming industry

2. In depth discussion on organizational design - hierarchies, agility, routines, changemanagement

3. Insights on the value of intentionally designing employee interactions that lead to productivity and wellbeing when workingremotely.

To watch the Podcast Click

Annual General Meeting 30th June 2020

Ruchika Mehra — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 06:10:13 GMT

The Annual General Meeting of ODC is on 30th of June 2020 at 5pm Danish time.

Registration is mandatory for the event.

For details

Latest Podcast: Episode #13 Greg Miller (Faethm)

Ruchika Mehra — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 06:05:32 GMT

Faethm is a globally unique AI platform that predicts the workforce impact of dynamic forces such as AI, Covid-19 and Robotics on current and future jobs.

Greg Miller, Executive Director of Faethm discuss the Covid-19 workforce study conducted together with MIT, the Evolution of Work for the jobs that are looking at higher levels of displacement due to AI & Robotics & the Future of Remote Work.

Latest Podcast of Making Remote Work Episode #9

Ruchika Mehra — Sat, 30 May 2020 13:51:00 GMT

"Making Remote Work" Episode #9 Prof Sumita Raghuram (SJSU)

In this episode they discuss the history of remote work and what is the future? They also share how do we adapt to the virtual environment as individuals?

Making Remote Work is a limited video-podcast series led by the ODC - Organizational Design Community and hosted by Skills for Mars. In the next months, we will collect and share the insights of 20+ academics and practitioners on distributed work.

https://lnkd.in/gZiNa93

Up coming Webinar by “The Strategic Role of Middle Managers in Organizational Design”

Ruchika Mehra — Thu, 28 May 2020 16:48:45 GMT

Webinar by Marianne Livijn on “The Strategic Role of Middle Managers in Organizational Design”

Objectives:

 Understand why middle managers are essential in organizational design, and why organizational design should be considered a process

 Examine organizational design from a dynamic perspective in which different organizational levels modify and adapt the design

 Gain insight into a recent research project that examined the middle manager role in organizational redesign

 Share your experiences and observations about how to involve multiple organizational levels in organizational design processes.

Up Coming Webinar by "ON THE MARK"-‘Building An Internal Organization Design Practice.’

Ruchika Mehra — Wed, 06 May 2020 17:13:10 GMT

Join for an upcoming webinar on "Building an Internal Organizational Design Practice" by ON THE MARK.

This ON THE MARK webinar, scheduled for May 12th at 9 AM PT will feature 3-5 experienced HR professionals from Europe, UK and US currently practicing organization design as an internal change agent. You’ll hear directly from those doing this honorable work the challenges, key learnings and wisdoms accumulated over years applied to:

1) What it takes to set up an internal organization design practice

2) The challenges and benefits of delivering organization design solutions as an internal change agent and HR professional.

For Detail Click

Webinar:“Chaos Containment by Design: Survival for Chaotic Times”

Ruchika Mehra — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:01:58 GMT

Watch the latest webinar “Chaos Containment by Design: Survival for Chaotic Times” by Dr Oberholtzer on the You Tube Channel.

Webinar

Making Remote Work Podcast: Hiring, leading and building trust when remote

Ruchika Mehra — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:18:52 GMT

Making Remote Work #04 - Mark Frein (Lambda School): Hiring, leading and building trust when remote

Watch the latest Podcast

In this episode the they talk about the differences, the difficulties, and also the exciting parts of all-remote. Mark and Iulia discuss leadership – what it takes to lead remote teams and how to recruit for the right leaders. They also touch on remote coordination, reducing isolation, building a culture of care and trust, so everyone can thrive in this environment.

Postcast: Ravi Gajendran - Innovative team- Making Remote Work

Ruchika Mehra — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:41:55 GMT

The latest podcast is here.

Can we be more #innovative and #performant while #workingremotely? What are the right conditions for this? How can we make #remotework better?

To watch the video

Postcast: Mark Mortensen - Remote Teams

Ruchika Mehra — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:48:22 GMT

Watch the latest podcast on How can we define a modern team? What makes teams effective? How should we manage remoteteams? Can they be as productive as a collocated team? How about managing multiple distributed teams?

Watch the Video

How can we best solve remote conflicts? Join Mark Mortensen from INSEAD and Iulia Istrate as they connect research with practice and provide answers to these burning questions on the 2nd episode of the Making Remote Work podcast series.

Upcoming Webinar Series on Remote Work

Ruchika Mehra — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:01:06 GMT

What do you want to know about #remotework?

Do you have any burning questions that you would like answered by leading scholars and practitioners in the field?

The ODC - Organizational Design Community has invited 20+ experts and, for the next months, will run a weekly series called Making Remote Work hosted by the Skills for Mars podcast. The first episode will air on the 3rd of April.

Send us your questions in the comment box and we will make sure you will get actionable answers at orgdesigncomm@gmail.com

You will no longer have to rely on the grapevine or folk wisdom to make decisions about how you manage in such critical times!

For more information, follow the youtube channel.

ODC Annual Meet 2020

Ruchika Mehra — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:00:00 GMT

The 2020 Annual Meet will be held on August 9th 2020 from 8 to 9 am

at SFU’s Wosk Conference Centre

580 W.Hastings Street,

Vancouver, BC

ODC Conference 2020

Ruchika Mehra — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:00:00 GMT

The 2020 Annual Conference will be held on August 9th 2020

at SFU’s Wosk Conference Centre 580 W. Hastings Street,Vancouver, BC

The theme of the conference will be “Teams and Organization Design”

Want to share something with the Organizational Design Community membership?

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 20:26:15 GMT

Members of Organizational Design Community can share knowledge, interesting articles, events and career opportunities. If you have something you want to share with your fellow ODC members, please email us at info@orgdesigncomm.com The ODC office will post your information on our member to member page and share it with the other members in an upcoming ODC Newsletter.

Journal of Organization Design Call for Papers!

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:59:01 GMT

The Journal of Organization Design welcomes submissions to a new article collection focused on Special Collection on 'New Trends in Organization Design'

Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2019
More information here.

The ODC's Certified OD Professional program: Congratulations to Naomi Stanford!

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:38:30 GMT

Dr. Naomi Stanford, a leading organization design practitioner, teacher, and author of 6 books, just successfully got certified by the Organization Design Community’s unique program that aims to certify the true professionals within the field of organization design. In her article dedicated to the ODC certification program, Naomi reports that

”…the certification process focused my mind on what matters in my OD work, encouraged me to reflect on my OD practice, and provided a lovely review point of the highs and lows in my recent OD career.”

The full Naomi's article can be accessed here.

We wish to congratulate Naomi for becoming a certified organization design professional and, in this way, contributing to an effort to professionalize organization design. We encourage those who have what it takes to also become the true OD professionals to apply for this certification following the link below!

Become a Certified Organization Design Professional!

New book edition by Naomi Stanford. Organization Design: The Practitioner’s Guide

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:55:41 GMT

This new and updated third edition of Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value. This edition has an enhanced international focus, and includes new material on organization design theories, the role of leaders, public sector organizations, and evaluation. Find out more about itas voucher codes here.

Call for papers : Corporate Headquarters in the 21st Century

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:07:38 GMT

The Journal of Organization Design welcomes submissions to a Special Collection of articles focused on 'Corporate Headquarters in the 21st Century'.

The deadline is the 31st of October 2018.

Find out more information and in the pdf document.

New JOD papers published

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:15:10 GMT

'Analyzing competing demands in organizations: a systematic comparison' is a research paper published just today!

The ODC Annual Conference 2018 is approaching

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:22:59 GMT

The ODC Annual Conference 2018 is approaching! Make sure to register yourself on time as the spaces are limited.

The updated agenda as well as a registration link for the event can be found by clicking here.

A new Certification Program is now available

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:20:39 GMT

New Certification Program enables you to distinguish yourself as an organization design professional

It is now possible to become a Certified Organization Design Professional through our newly founded Certification Program.

The vision for the program is to enable individuals to distinguish themselves in the market as organization design professionals; thereby creating value for the certified individuals as well as clients looking for skilled professionals with relevant educational and practical experience.

More information click here.

New research paper from Richard M. Burton and Børge Obel

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:17:41 GMT

A new research paper from Richard M. Burton and Børge Obel with title 'The science of organizational design: fit between structure and coordination' can be found here.

'Editorial Vol. 7'

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:32:28 GMT

An article with the title 'Editorial Vol. 7' in now available on the JOD website.

Authors: Børge Obel, Charles Snow, John Joseph and Metin Sengul

JOD new research paper: Post-merger integration

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:24:47 GMT

Post-merger integration

The article discusses post-merger integration (PMI) and the trade-off between the economic benefits and costs that arise when organizations merge under a new organizational structure and reconfigure their businesses and resources.

Find it here.

By: Julia Bodner and Laurence Capron

JOD Moving Forward

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:41:32 GMT

JOD has had a very successful year so far in 2017. The journal is publishing at a rate of at least one article per month, a requirement for obtaining an impact factor in the future. The Organization Zoo series is attracting attention, and several recent articles have received a large number of hits shortly after publication. Springer’s efforts to market JOD are paying off. Further, the number of citations is growing including many Web-of Science citations. JOD is doing particular well for a new Opens Access Journal. We encourage you to read JOD, and if you write a design-related paper, please consider submitting it to JOD.

Call for papers: Journal of Organization Design Thematic Series - Novel modes of organizing and the future role of hierarchy

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:14:46 GMT

In line with the 2017 ODC Annual conference, this JOD Thematic Series explores the role and form of hierarchy in organizations, especially in novel modes of organizing such as collaborative communities, commons-based peer production, temporary innovation networks, and boss-less organizations.

The deadline for the submission of papers is January 15, 2018.

Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome, and papers may address any aspect of hierarchical and non-hierarchical organizations. Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

means and consequences of reducing or eliminating hierarchy
substitutes for hierarchy
decision-making and resource allocation in non-hierarchical organizations
experiments or agent-based simulation studies of non-hierarchical organizations
qualitative case studies of the evolution of novel modes of organizing
purpose and role of hierarchy in future organizations
relationship between hierarchy and organizational performance

The Guest Editors for this Thematic Series are Stephan Billinger (University of Southern Denmark), Maciej Workiewicz (ESSEC Business School), Børge Obel (Aarhus University), and Charles Snow (The Pennsylvania State University).

Click here to read more on the Journal of Organization Design website!

The knowledge base on the ODC website is growing

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:10:13 GMT

A new initiative has been presented by the ODC-member Ana Aleksic Miric to grow the ODC website as a knowledge base: Given the mission and the authority in the scientific community and practice, ODC has placed as one of its goals to help organization design science to establish and further develop the organizational design knowledge base. For this reason, a new service will soon be added to the existing ODC website by publishing information of the type listed below for the community to utilize:

Books that has appeared in the OD field;
Coming conferences;
Papers and book chapters to be published;
Projects ODC members are involved in and potential collaborators in projects

This endeavour will be led by Ana as the Head of ODC Knowledge Resources. Ana is an Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.

Please contact Ana if you have information on resources that you find relevant to share with the members of the Organizational Design Community: anaa@ekof.bg.ac.rs

We look forward to this initiative being fully implemented on the ODC website.

Members of ODC are always welcome to contact the ODC administration office with ideas for projects to evolve and benefit the Organizational Design Community.

European Organisation Design Forum announces their 7th Annual Conference, 20th -21st of October, Dortmund, Germany.

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:27:46 GMT

Organisations need to increase revenues, lower costs, and continuously delight customers if they want to do sustainable business. Doing so requires reinventing operating models. Join the EODF Annual Conference for practical examples and case studies highlighting how organisations and governments are modernizing their operating models to cope.

#EODF17: Next Generation Organization Designs. Practical Operating Models Enabling Digitalisation, Customer Centricity & Agility.

European Organisation Design Forum invites you to their annual conference: Come explore #EODF17, our friendly host DASA Dortmund and experience our unique conference design. Feel free to co-create this conference in Open Space sessions sandwiched between innovative keynote speakers, interactive sessions and a lot of networking. Preceding the conference 2 days of Pre-Conference Masterclasses will offer you an opportunity of exploring in depth topics on organisation design. Choose the best masterclass for you!

The Pre-Conference Masterclasses have been launched here!

As partners of the EODF, we are pleased to offer ODC members tickets at member prices, please buy “Early Bird Special.”

Book your place for the conference here!

Join the adventure by connecting with the discussion group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8540707

New organization design course has been granted the ODC accreditation

Wed, 10 May 2017 09:06:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the organization design course provided by Solutions Consulting has been granted the Organizational Design Community accreditation.

The comprehensive organization design course: Designing for Agility: A Seven Step Process^TM has successfully been evaluated by the ODC Review Board and granted certification by the ODC Board of Directors. We are excited to see the Accreditation Program expanding and providing value to more organizations and course participants.

The ODC Accreditation Program adds value to both course participants and providers by:

Helping potential course participants navigate in a fragmented market of course providers
Certifying that participants received a theoretically sound and practically useful course
Helping course providers develop and differentiate their offerings

Learn more about the ODC Accreditation Program

Collaboration between ODC and Organization Design Forum (ODF)

Wed, 10 May 2017 09:02:26 GMT

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Organizational Design Community and Organization Design Forum in the pursuit of mutual interests in the field of organization design. The ODC Board of Directors are pleased with this development and look forward to take the next step in fulfilling the agreement.

The parties agree to cooperate in the following areas:

Each organization’s annual conference;
Co-developing workshops on organization design topics;
ODF participation in ODC’s Accreditation Program;
Explore opportunities for collaborative activities with other professional organizations in the area of organization design.

You can learn more about Organization Design Forum here: http://organizationdesignforum.org/

ODC look forward to collaboration with both ODF and EODF with whom ODC now has signed a memorandum of understanding.

Journal of Organization Design: New Article Published

Wed, 10 May 2017 08:59:09 GMT

Visit the JOD website to read the most recent article exploring the topics of double-bind organizations, toxic communication and employee burnout:

“How to avoid destroying your employees and organisations due to burnouts, braindrain and fading performance? Stop double bind-communication in your organisation!” - Such is the title of the point of view article authored by Angelika Kutz, published in May this year.

The article by Kutz describes a presumed connection between the double bind-communication pattern in organizations and its detrimental consequences for both the employees of a double bind-organization and such double bind-organizations themselves.

Click here to visit the Journal of Organization Design website and read the full article.

We encourage members to submit articles to JOD: Get high visibility, speed of publication, flexibility and promotion.

Call for Papers: Special AiSM Volume on Organizational Design

Wed, 10 May 2017 08:48:39 GMT

Organizational Design is the central subject in a new special volume of the Advances in Strategic Management Journal. The Editors of AiSM are interested in publishing journal articles representing a sample of the most significant empirical and theoretical developments at the intersection of organizational design and strategy.

In the call for papers, the AiSM Editors emphasize a special interest in work which links different disciplines (e.g., sociology, organizational economics, social psychology, history, organizational theory, strategy), blends theories, mixes methods or is otherwise particularly integrative in its approach. The Editors wish to offer scholars a chance to research topics which may be considered exploratory, risky or unusual for mainstream journals.

The objective of the special volume is to renew attention to foundational theories and highlight new and interesting efforts that develop and augment theories and methods in the pursuit of a better understanding of organizational design and strategic management.

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017

View the call for papers here:

AiSM Call for Papers.pdf

ODC Annual Conference 2017 August 6, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:29:50 GMT

The Role of Hierarchy in Modern Organizations

The role of hierarchy is challenged and disputed in modern organization design, but still we see hierarchy as the most common form of organizing. In this conference, we will address non-hierarchical modes of organizing and explore the role of hierarchy in today’s organizations.

Speakers include:

Professor Arun Sundarajan, NYU Stern, People Analytic Manager Jennifer Kurkoski, Google, professor Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School, and Professor Jerry Davis, University of Michigan.

Participation free for ODC members.

Journal of Organization Design: New Publications

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:00:55 GMT

Discover the recent activity in Journal of Organization Design; 3 articles published in March 2017 exploring the topics nudge management, conflict resolution in meta-organizations and digital organizations.

Journal of Organization Design features new articles with the following titles - open access:

Nudge management: applying behavioral science to increase knowledge worker productivity

(Philip Ebert and Wolfgang Freibichler)

Conflict resolution in meta-organizations: the peculiar role of arbitration

(Klaus Heine and Maximilian Kerk)

Platforms, ecosystems, and the internationalization of highly digitized organizations

(Moshe Yonatan)

- Amongst several additional Organization Design articles published this year.

Click here to visit the Journal of Organization Design website and read the full articles.

We encourage members to submit articles to JOD: Get high visibility, speed of publication, flexibility and promotion.

Go Society Conference and Clinic, July 20-25.

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:50:41 GMT

Go Society invites you to a 3-day conference and 2-day clinic with the headline “Building Trust - Inducing Agile Organizations for Tomorrow” in Toronto, Canada.

The theme will be the elegance and adaptiveness of Requisite Organization and its synergies with current management trends.

The 3-day conference

The conference will explore:

Day 1: The core values (principles of design, talent pool management, the management practices) and their interconnectedness.
Day 2: The relationship to other organization design approaches that exist and are emerging in our increasingly complex world.
Day 3: The implications for application of RO principles to new issues facing management.

Go Society’s new conference format will feature dialogue, discussion, sharing of ideas and experiences within contexts set by keynotes and presentations.

The 2-day professional development clinic

The clinic will support development of skilled knowledge by applying RO concepts to a case. The case will feature an organization challenged by digital disruption, needing to speed innovation in its customer focused value stream while working with stakeholder networks beyond the firm’s boundaries. In the past few years, the firm had established vertical RO accountabilities and now with its new strategy, it will work to refine the needed project management, lateral relationships and collaborative work culture.

Three prominent practitioners in the field will balance theory with client applications.

Who should attend

Most attendees will be experienced practitioners; however, the conference is relevant for all the following:

Those new to RO are encouraged to take advantage of the E-learning and pre-conference clinic so that they are well prepared for the advanced discussions during the conference.
Consultants, both external and internal, those specializing in strategy, organization design, and talent management but also those in other specialties that would benefit from deep understanding of a systems approach to organization design and management.
General managers
Senior HR managers

Click here to register

MOOC Specialization on Stategy and Organization Design attracts 600,000 participants

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:11:23 GMT

ODC member Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München shares his experience with his Massive Open Online Course.

On 9th January, 2017, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Munich School of Management launched a new specialization “Competitive Strategy and Organization Design”. Instead of traditional classroom teaching Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer and his team decided to offer the three courses of the specialization as video-based Massive Open Online Couses, so called MOOCs. The courses are distributed in partnership with Coursera, an online platform that provides universal access to education.

Since the launch of the first course, about 600,000 participants have signed up for the courses, so MOOCs seem to be a very effective way to share knowledge about organization design and strategy.

“MOOCs are a completely different distribution channel compared to a typical university course. We can reach a completely different audience with it, so in a sense we are looking at a textbook case of economies of scope,” tells Prof. Dr. Kretschmer.

“On the production side, we changed things around a bit – you cannot design a MOOC thinking you will be in front of a camera that simply records your lecture, so it was also instructive from a pedagogical point of view.

However, one of the key factors in the decision to do a MOOC was that it was something new and explorative, which I found exciting."

600,000 participants is very impressive. What kind of students did the course attract?

“Anyone really. We have not done a systematic analysis of who takes part, but we have had high school students form rural US, entrepreneurs from Tanzania, FTSE C-level executives, MBA students – the lot really.”

What did the participants pay for the course?

Coursera’s current business model is that participants pay a monthly subscription fee (45€) until they complete the specialization. The revenue is shared between Coursera and the University.

“However, I was less motivated by the financial potential of offering MOOCs. At the time of doing my first MOOC, there wasn’t even a business model. More important to me was, the opportunity to reach a wider and different audience.

What is your overall experience with MOOCs?

“I really enjoyed doing the MOOC, but it was also a lot of work. Think one full day per session pure recording time, plus preparation (you need to redo the slides) plus another day or cutting and producing. If you want to have quizzes, you have to design them too. If your institution supports you and/or rewards it, it is certainly a fun and satisfying activity. Not sure if I would recommend it pre-tenure though…” says Prof. Dr. Kretschmer.

Prof. Dr. Kretschmer will be happy to answer questions on the MOOC production process from interested members of the community.

See the course here
See the specialization here
Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer

Videos from Annual Conference 2016 now ready

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:33:51 GMT

Revisit presentations of Raymond Levitt, Paul Wayne, Exequiel Hernandez and other speakers from August conference.

Go to members area

The videos of the presentations at the ODC Annual Conference 2016 are now available.

Big Bets: Getting Organization Design Right
Paul Wayne, Senior Advisor Organization Design, Chevron
Delivering Infrastructure as a Service, not a Product: The P3 "Golden Handshake" and its Governance Challenges
Raymond Levitt, Professor, Stanford University
Liberty in Law? Intellectual Property Rights and Global Alliance Networks
Exequiel Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Wharton School of Business
Imaginative Choice as Organizational Design. Joe Porac, Professor, New York University
Organizing Corporate Social Actions Jiao Luo, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Marketplaces and Control Andrei Hagiu, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Challenges Confronted by Disruptors in Establishing their Platforms to Enable Sharing Across Contexts Raghu Garud, Professor and Research Director, Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Penn State University

Go to members area

JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATION DESIGN: FEATURED ARTICLE and Call for papers

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:24:26 GMT

Playfulness, ideology and the technology of foolishness in the creation of a novel market niche for distributed control: The case of iPLON

Annachiara Casalini introduces her Case Study, coauthored with Guido Fioretti and Andreas Pykaase, on playfulness, ideology and the technology of foolishness.

See video and read the full article here

Submit your articles to JOD and get high visibility, speed of publication, flexibility and promotion

The mission of the Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is to publish theoretical and empirical research on organization design.

JOD is thus a core activity of the ODC.

We encourage members to submit articles to JOD.

Now special rate for Emeritus members

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:20:17 GMT

Several senior members have indicated that they would like to continue their engagement in ODC as Emeritus.

We therefor now introduce a special rate of 75 USD for Emeritus members.

If you want to change your membership category to emeritus, please send a mail to the Board of Directors at infor@orgdesigncomm.com

If you as an emeritus already have paid the full fee, ODC will extend your membership period with one additional year

Recommend ODC to your fellow colleagues

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:15:09 GMT

Do you know people passionate about organization design, we would love to include them in our community.

ODC is a members driven community. Our activities are based on the ideas and commitment of our members, so getting the right people on board has always been a top priority for us.

Our history shows this. In 2011 the 16 founding members each invited 5 fellow colleagues, who then again invited 5 and so on. Today ODC has app. 130 members, but we are always interested in new organization designers - individuals, firms, organizations or institutions - wishing to support and enhance ODC’s mission.

We therefore encourage you to recommend OCD to fellow colleagues. They are welcome to send an application for membership to the Board of Directors, which is responsible for specifying the admission criteria and accepting new members.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND COOPERATION IN 2016 – WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN 2017

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:33:38 GMT

We wish to thank the members of the community for the year that has passed and invite you to renew your ODC membership.

It is the members that makes it possible for ODC to advance the theory and practice of organization design for scholars, executives and organizations. We hope that you took advantage of the activities that took place this year and we look forward to continue sharing and collaborating in the years to come.

By renewing your ODC membership you will support the overall effort to advance the field of organization design e.g. via the Journal of Organization Design

You will also get a number of benefits:

Free access to the Annual Conference 2017 that will take place August 6 in Atlanta. The theme of the conference will be “The Role of Hierarchy in Modern Organizations”

Free access to Organizational Design online teaching resources, videos and webinars –

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ODC conference 2017 focus on the role of hierarchy in organizations

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:32:00 GMT

The preliminary program for the ODC Conference August 6, 2017 is now ready. Registration is open – and free for members.

The role of hierarchy is challenged and disputed in modern organization design but still we see hierarchy as the most common form of organizing.

In this conference we will address non-hierarchical modes of organizing and explore the role of hierarchy in today’s organizations.

The program of the 2017 ODC conference in Atlanta is taking form in the capable hands of Marlo Raveendran, UC Riverside and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Stern School of Business, NYU.

All academic speakers are now confirmed and you can see the preliminary program - and register for this exciting event – here

http://www.orgdesigncomm.com/event-2377282/Registration

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Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Organization Design

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:31:00 GMT

The mission of the Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is to publish theoretical and empirical research on organization design. Organization design is an applied discipline based on the literature of the organization sciences.

The term for the current Editors-in-Chief is expiring and the Journal of Organization Design is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief.

JOD was started in 2012 and is published by SpringerOpen from 2016. The editorial work is organized by the Editor(s)-in-Chief, a number of Associate Editors (currently seven) and an Editorial Board consisting of twenty eight people. The Editorial Board consists of very active reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief appoints the editorial team.

Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is an official publication of the Organizational Design Community, a worldwide community of scholars, executives, and organizations dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of organization design. JOD publishes articles about both the theory and practice of organization design. Articles can take a variety of forms – conceptual articles, review articles, empirical studies, provocative essays, case and simulation studies, laboratory and field experiments, syntheses of different ideas or theories, and so on. Authors should persuasively present the implications of their work for research and/or practice. JOD is particularly keen to publish articles that are future oriented, address urgent design issues, and translate theory and research findings into practical applications. JOD publishes five types of articles: Research Articles, Translational Articles, Case Studies, Point of View Articles, and Urgent Issue Articles. JOD's target audience is academics, business people, graduate students, consultants, and policymakers.

The ideal candidate will have a strong commitment to the field of organization design, and will have made significant scholarly contributions to the field. Consistent with the mission of the ODC, the editor of JOD will work to build visibility for work in the field and will seek to build bridges between theory and practice.

Nominations may be sent to Tim Carroll (carroll@moore.sc.edu) by January 15, 2017. The term will begin approximately September 1, 2017.

ODC and European Organisation Design Forum (EODF) join forces.

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:29:34 GMT

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been developed between Organizational Design Community and European Organisation Design Forum in pursuit of mutual interests in the field of organization design. The members of ODC Board of Directors are excited to have initiated the fulfilment of the agreement.

The parties agree to cooperate in the following areas of mutual interest:

o Each organization’s respective annual conference;
o Co-developing workshops on organization design topics;
o EODF participation in ODC’s Accreditation Program;
o Explore possibilities for collaborative activities with other professional organizations in the area of organization design.

You can read more about European Organisation Design Forum (EODF) here http://eodf.eu

ODC Website updated to support member-to-member news

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:27:31 GMT

Members can now better share job positions, articles and ideas

The ODC website has undergone an update process to ensure a high quality and good experience for the users of the platform.

To support the networking and knowledge sharing between ODC members, the website has been expanded with a new “Member to Member” page where members of ODC can share knowledge, interesting articles, events and career opportunities. This week Professor Thorbjørn Knudsen, University of Southern Denmark is sharing 10 new positions.

Go to our website to experience the new design and features!

If you have news to share, please send them to the secretariat at info@orgdesigncomm.com

Please also note our large linkedin community site 1400+ members https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4095214

ODC launches Certificate Program to support quality in short courses on organization design

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:34:51 GMT

More and more companies and academic institutions are getting interested in the field of organization design and a myriad of short courses are now offered.

Seen from an ODC perspective this is like a dream coming through. This is what we have been working for over the last 6 years.

But with the growing interest new challenges arise:

How can course participants be sure that they are presented for the core theoretical principles of organization design and at the same time receive quality training on how to use this new knowledge in practise?

ODC members have raised these questions at the latest ODC Annual Meetings and suggested that ODC took the lead on developing a quality system for short courses.

After two years of concept development in close dialogue with the members, ODC are now launching the ODC COURSE ACCREDITATION.

“We are very happy and proud that we now can offer this program to course providers and participants,” says Deputy Chairman of ODC, Professor Børge Obel from ICOA, Aarhus University. He has been appointed Director of the Program.

“ODC represents both academia and business and is independent from commercial interests, so we are in the right position to take on the role of accreditation and quality assurance body,” continues professor Obel.

Professor Obel is also member of the first Review Board, who reviews applications from course providers. The application and review processes are described in the Accreditation Handbook.

The ODC Course Accreditation establishes that a course or program covers a core set of fundamental common content (knowledge, skills, tools, methods, frameworks, trends, etc.) in organization design. Once endorsed, the course provider can market and advertise it as such. (Co-branded with ODC and the Course Provider).

The Board of Directors of ODC has also decided that all course participants will get a personal certificate and a one-year free membership of ODC.

“This means that we expect our community to grow substantially in the coming months”, ends Professor Obel.

The first course provider – Kates Kesler Organization Consulting – has just been accredited and a handful of new course providers are preparing their entry.

Kates Kesler Organization Consulting is the first course provider to obtain the ODC Certification

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:29:42 GMT

Managing Partner Amy Kates is excited about the Certification Program and certain that it will bring value to their clients.

In August 2016, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting had their organization design course program certified by the new ODC Certification Program – as the first in the world.

- ODC is the premiere global organization design professional association, states Managing Partner Amy Kates. To have our course certified and recognized by this body is an honor.

- The criteria were rigorous, but fair. The process was simple – we submitted our materials for review by the committee of practitioners and academics.

Managing Partner Greg Kesler is sure that an ODC Certification will add value to their course program:

- Accreditation by ODC allows us to provide even more value to our clients. HR and OD internal staff are particularly interested in ways to demonstrate their competence. Certification that indicates they have a strong foundation gained through a quality program will be extremely useful as they introduce organization design to their line clients.

Kates Kesler Organization Consulting is a New York based consulting firm within organization design, led by Greg Kesler and Amy Kates

Their course is built on 20 years of consulting experience and the foundational work of Jay Galbraith. The program brings organization design concepts, tools, and methods to HR and organization development professionals and line managers and helps to grow the field.

http://kateskesler.com

Learn more about the ODC Certification Program: http://www.orgdesigncomm.com/Certification

Three new members of the ODC Board of Directors

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:57:04 GMT

At the ODC Annual Meeting August 7, 2016, three new members of the ODC Board of Directors were elected:

Carliss Baldwin William L. White Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Laura Cardinal, SmartState Endowed Chair and Director, Center for Innovation and Commercialization, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Joe Cheng, Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the University of Illinois

They are replacing Dorthe Døjbak Haakonsson, Anne Bøllington and Raymond Miles. We thank them for their great work to contribute to the upstart and development of the ODC.

Professor Emeritur Charles Snow, Duke University was re-elected as Chairman of the Board and Professor Børge Obel from ICOA, Aarhus University will take another round as Deputy Chairman.

ODC is scaling up activities

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:36:39 GMT

Conferences in Poland, USA and Hong Kong, new partnerships, Journal, Certificate programme. The ODC Board and committed members are scaling up the activities.

ODC is a members driven community, so ideas for new initiatives keep rolling in from our international group of members, who are also ready to take the lead of events and new services.

Professor Joe Cheng (Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the University of Illinois) is responsible for the ODC Asia activities and plan for a conference 2018 in Hong Kong together with the Hong Kong Open University. Additionally, ODC is planned to have a track on the Hong Kong Open University Conference 2017. The conference will take place in December 2017. More information to be announced soon.

Diem Ho (Manager of University Relations for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), France) has proposed an ODC track at a conference in May 2017 in Poland (Cloud Computer). More information will come later.

ODC Annual Conference 2017
ODC Annual Conference 2017 will take place in Atlanta Sunday August 6., in conjunction with the AOM conference. Co-Program Chairwomen are Marlo Raveendran, UC Riverside and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Stern School of Business, NYU. The theme of the conference will be The Role of Hierarchy in Modern Organizations.

Journal of Organization Design - Call for Papers: Designing and Managing the Digital Organization

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:48:58 GMT

The Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted solely to advancing the theory and practice of organization design.

JOD welcomes submissions to the new special issue on 'Designing and Managing the Digital Organization'.

Deadline for submissions: 1 August, 2016

Please visit the Journal's website to read more about all aspects of JOD and submissions

Journal of Organization Design Volume 4, Issue 3, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:00:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community has published volume 4, issue number 3, 2015, of the Journal of Organization Design. Please enjoy the papers appearing in last issue of the year.

We are introducing a new feature called the Research Primer Series. The purpose of this series is to introduce readers to a particular research stream or literature and articulate its implications for the theory and/or practice of organization design. The first research primer to appear in the series is by Metin Sengul and Stefan Dimitriadis on the topic of multimarket competition.

The issue also includes one research article, one case study, one translational article, and two interviews in our JOD Live section. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

We wish our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Journal of Organization Design scales up

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:01:12 GMT

Beginning in January 2016, the operations of Journal of Organization Design (JOD) will be outsourced to Springer Open Access, the largest publisher of open access journals in the world. By having Springer’s marketing power, we expect JOD to rapidly become more visible and attractive to authors.

JOD will continue to be owned by the Organizational Design Community .

New members of the editorial team
In anticipation of this growth, we are increasing the size of our editorial team and board. We are happy to welcome Nils Stieglitz (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) and John Joseph (University of California Irvine) as new associate editors.

A Journal for both academics and practitioners
At JOD, we publish five different types of articles (Research, Translational, Point of View, Urgent Issue, Case Study) as well as the Organizational Zoo and ODC live. In this way, the journal seeks to be both theoretically sound, practically relevant and use the fact that JOD is electronic only.

Sponsorship means no APCs in 2016-2017
Our objective is to have JOD become the most comprehensive and highest-quality journal devoted to the topic of organization design. JOD will continue to be an open access journal and due to support from Department of Management, Aarhus University there will be no APCs in 2016 and 2017.

We invite you to submit a paper to JOD.
Please submit here Journal of Organization Design

Or contact us at info@orgdesigncomm.com

Journal of Organization Design-CALL FOR PAPERS

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:13:59 GMT

The Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted solely to advancing the theory and practice of organization design. We seek high-quality papers on any design-related topic for publication in Volume 5 (2016) and Volume 6 (2017). There are numerous benefits of having your paper published in JOD:

Your article is freely available to all who wish to read it. This allows you to present your organization design ideas and research findings to a worldwide audience.
JOD has a respectable impact factor, so your article has visibility in the scholarly community.
The editorial team and board members are internationally known academics in the field.
JOD has five different article formats, so you have a variety of choices about how to present your ideas.
The submission and review process is smooth and timely.
Article processing charges (fees paid by the author) will be waived for 2016 and 2017.

Please visit the journal’s website to learn more about all aspects of JOD.

We look forward to receiving your paper!

Børge Obel (Aarhus University) and Charles Snow (Penn State University) Co-editors

New book published by ODC Members

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:10:11 GMT

Professor Richard Burton, Duke University, Professor Børge Obel, Aarhus University and Associate Professor Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, have published a new edition of their book Organisational Design: A step-by-step approach. Written specifically for executives and MBA students, the third edition of this successful textbook provides a step-by-step guide to designing an organization, from diagnosis, to design and implementation. It provides comprehensive coverage of the key aspects of organizational design, including goals, strategy, process, people, coordination, control, and incentives. Following a new diamond model, fully tested in practice, the book guides readers through an integrated methodology for organizational assessment and planning. It includes a new chapter on project managing organizational change on a practical level, new case study, extended discussions of new organizational forms, architecture design and knowledge systems, and new practical steps for implementation and change.

Visit the Website for free access to a selection of organizational diagnosis, design and implementation models in Excel, as well as additional case studies, figures and tables from the book.

As a paying member of The Organizational Design Community, you will get a 20% discount on the book. Find it on the ODC Website.

Conference on Organizational Design in December in New York

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:55:56 GMT

ODC and The Conference Board (TCB) have agreed to collaborate to the benefit of the members of both organizations.

A central part of the collaboration is mutual marketing of events, so please take a look at the Conference Board event 11th Annual Organization Design and Diagnostics, and get a ODC member discount of USD 300 here.

The conference will take place in NYC on December 10-11., 2015.

Journal of Organization Design Volume 4, Issue 2, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:37:08 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 4, issue number 2, 2015, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). Please enjoy the papers appearing in our second issue of the year.

We are introducing a new series called Organization Zoo. Organization Zoo is intended to analyze new or unusual organizational forms. The objective of the series is to examine organizations that have recently appeared, or which would be considered as outliers compared to traditional organizations, in order to learn more about what particular organizational forms can do as well as their drawbacks.

Each edition of Organization Zoo will be built on a case. The organization zoo already has many animals, but sometimes a new or unusual animal appears. We want to describe this new animal and how it behaves, and we want to analyze rare animals to make certain that we fully understand them. First, the case will be presented, and then several commentators will offer their thoughts and opinions about the organization.

The first case in our series is on Valve Corporation, an American video game development and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Our case commentators are Carliss Baldwin, Julian Birkinshaw, Teppo Felin, Nicolai Foss & Magdalena Dobrajska, Lars Kolind, Georg von Krogh & Nina Geilinger, and Todd Zenger. We hope that the case and its commentators’ observations will provide you with a rich understanding of a new or unusual form of organizing.

The issue also includes one research article, one translational article, and one point of view article. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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Vacant positions within Organizational Design

Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:47:55 GMT

There are a number of vacant positions as assistant professors within the field of management at Department of Management at Aarhus University. The department would in particular like applicants within the field of organization design.

Deadline: 13. September 2015.

If you have questions please contact Head of Department, Professor Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Tel.: +45 2429 3238, E-mail: eskildsen@badm.au.dk

Journal of Organization Design Volume 4, Issue 1, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:30:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 4, issue number 1, 2015, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). Please enjoy the papers appearing in our first issue of the year. This is a special issue on Organizing for Performance with special issue editors Andy Neely, Rick Edgeman, and Jacob Kjær Eskildsen. There are several great pieces in this issue, which include three research articles, one point of view article, and two interview resumes in our new journal section JOD Live. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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Call for Papers: Special issue on Design Issues in Public-Private Partnerships

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:00:00 GMT

Journal of Organization Design

Submission deadline, January 15, 2016

Guest editors: Zeger van Der Wal (LKY-NUS) & Kannan Srikanth (SMU)

The Journal of Organization Design invites submissions for a special issue on the topic of “Design issues in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP’s)”.

This special issue invites empirical papers using any methodology (cases, archival data or survey data analysis, experiments) that investigate design issues in PPP – contrasting them with the challenges in traditional buyer-supplier relations or alliances found between private companies- private sector partnerships ( or “PSP’s”). The question we focus on is how the “public” nature of one party to the partnership changes the design of such relationships. Papers from either a public administration and/or organization science perspective are very welcome.

At a fundamental level, inter-firm partnerships can be seen as a particular instance of temporary (because they have a finite life) and lateral (because there is no formal authority hierarchy) organizations. We know a fair amount about this particular form of organizing, and how the basic design choices such as task divisions and allocation between partners, coordination, incentives and dispute resolution mechanisms (including reliance on equity ownership and consequent voting rights) affect their structure and performance. The benefits of synergies between partners, common pathologies such as “learning races”, as well as the advantages conferred by specialized organizational units responsible for managing a portfolio of partnerships, have all been well documented in the literature on PSP’s.

In this special issue we are interested in understanding, with reference to the traditional “best practices” in the design of PSP’s if, why and how they need to change in public-private partnerships. In particular we would like to learn how design decisions can aid in the process of value creation and private capture, while also safeguarding the public interest. This contrast based approach is likely to generate insight about both public-private partnerships as well as the design of inter-organizational partnerships in general.

Papers tackling questions such as (but not limited to) these would be welcome to be reviewed for the special issue:

How does the involvement of public interest influence partner selection, and the profitability of the private sector player in PPP’s?
To what extent is there flexibility in the distribution of tasks between partners in PPP’s?
How are multi-party PPP’s organized and managed? How do they differ from meta-organizations in the private sector? How does the existence of multiple stake-holders within the “public” side influence the design and performance of PPP’s?
What are the distinctive mechanisms of organizing and governance in PPP’s? By mechanisms, we mean contracts, incentives, task assignment, information exchange and communication interfaces, private and public audits, dispute resolution etc. For instance:
- What are innovative contract design elements that seem to enhance the performance of PPP’s? What are the limits and possibilities of the use of pay-for-performance arrangements in PPP’s?
- How does the organizational interface between partner’s look different in PPP’s and other private sector partnerships (PSP’s)?
- How does the dispute resolution process in PPP’s differ from that in PSP’s?
- Are there particular managerial skills needed to manage the interface in PPP’s? Are there particular incentive mechanisms that allow entrepreneurial decision making (i.e. avoiding omission errors) within the public partner, while preserving safeguards against improprieties and mistakes (i.e. commission errors)?

Keeping with JOD’s aims, we wish to publish concise, clear and compelling articles (with the scope for putting supplementary materials in online appendices); short articles (4500-5000 words) are encouraged, though the shortening can also occur through the editorial process. All submissions are processed through double blind peer review.

Call for Papers: Journal of Organization Design

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:30:00 GMT

Journal of Organization Design (JOD) seeks to advance both the theory and practice of organization design. It is self-published by the Organizational Design Community, an international community of scholars, executives, and organizations who have a collective interest in improving how organizations are designed and managed. JOD is an open access journal available online to all interested parties free of charge.

JOD will consider publishing a paper on any organization design topic as long as the author provides valid theoretical arguments, high-quality data, and/or practical implications. JOD is especially interested in papers that employ abductive logic – the logic of “what might be”. JOD wants to be the preeminent journal for knowledge that helps designers and managers create organizations that are agile, innovative, and continuously able to adapt to their environments. Papers that are based on simulations, scenario development, Delphi studies, thought experiments, and other speculative methodologies are invited and will be reviewed with appropriate evaluation criteria. Traditional research topics and methodologies are also welcome at JOD provided that arguments and findings have important design implications.

Journal of Organization Design covers all aspects of both the theory and practice of Organization Design and has published 58 articles in the first nine issues, and with more than 200,000 combined abstract, article, and video views in the first three years (index statistics excluded).

Take a look at our most read articles: The Evolution of Enterprise Organization Designs by Jay Galbraith, Design of Industrial and Supra-Firm Architectures: Growth and Sustainability by John Mathews, Open Innovation and Organization Design by Michael Tushman, and Designing the Organization for User Innovation by Peter Keinz, Christoph Hienerth, and Christopher Lettl. You are welcome to dig deeper into our online archives.

You are cordially invited to submit or recommend papers to the Journal of Organization Design. The website can be accessed here: http://www.orgdesigncomm.com/Journal-of-Organization-Design.

About Journal of Organization Design

JOD has an editorial structure composed of (a) Co-Editors Børge Obel (ICOA, Aarhus University) and Charles C. Snow (Penn State University); (b) Associate Editors Richard M. Burton (Duke University), Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson (ICOA, Aarhus University), Samina Karim (Boston University), Peter Klaas (WTT A/S), Phanish Puranam (INSEAD), and Metin Sengul (Boston College); and (c) a distinguished Editorial Board. Manuscripts are reviewed in a double-blind review process by at least two reviewers. A short but meticulous review process is of great importance to JOD.

About Open Access

There are no article processing charges for papers published in JOD. JOD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Furthermore, an open access article stands a greater chance to be used and cited than does one published behind the subscription barriers of a traditional academic journal. Therefore, your research impact is likely to be improved once you become an open access author.

Online Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal at www.jorgdesign.net. Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, it will undergo copyediting, formatting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible. JOD is listed in all of the major indexing services.

Video Abstracts

JOD offers authors of an accepted paper the opportunity to include a short video presentation (approximately one minute in length) with their published article. This video can include the author in his or her natural setting, slides, photos, and so on, and will accompany the online article in JOD. A video enables readers to get a personal, insightful overview of the article and the reasons for writing it. For more information, please see our video gallery for actual examples.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Product Innovation Management

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:02:07 GMT

In the current globalized competitive arena, breakthrough innovations, defined as new products or services that create entirely new markets or radically change existing ones (like the Ipad), are a crucial (potential) source of competitive advantage for firms. They also are a fundamental mechanism to restore sustainable growth in advanced economies, which were severely hit by the global crisis.

Despite the many benefits touted by scholars, consultants, and managers, the accumulated evidence indicates that breakthrough innovations are rare and difficult to achieve. Established firms confront severe obstacles when engaging in the development of breakthrough innovations (Christensen, 1997; Henderson, 1993). In fact, the few available studies suggest that the typical internal organization of incumbents which is designed to assure efficiency in daily operations, is at odds with the pursuit of breakthrough innovation (O'Connor and De Martino, 2006). Consequently, in modern innovation eco-systems, start-ups are often considered the most natural engine of breakthrough innovation (Schneider and Veugelers, 2011), as they are loci of creativity and do not suffer from organizational inertia. Nonetheless, start-ups also encounter serious obstacles in rallying human talent and financial resources for developing breakthrough innovations, and assembling the complementary assets necessary for exploiting them (e.g., Carayannopoulos, 2009). As an alternative option, incumbents may leverage the creativity and flexibility of start-ups to radically innovate by acquiring them, allying with them or even promoting their creation (e.g. Von Krogh et al. 2012). However, alliance and acquisition strategies carry their own risks. Evidence shows that few acquisitions of start-ups are successful, and that post-acquisition integration of the acquired operations often leads to the deterioration of the performance of acquired inventors. Similarly, alliances between large incumbents and start-ups involve high transaction costs and substantial moral hazard and adverse selection problems, when their aim is to develop breakthrough innovations.

The aim of this special issue “Organizing for breakthrough innovation: Taking inspiration from the organization of science” is to examine what organizational arrangements are most conducive to breakthrough innovation. We are especially interested in investigating to what extent and under what conditions principles and guidelines applied in the organization of scientific projects which led to major scientific discoveries (Stephan, 2012) may inform the innovation activity of firms with the purpose of increasing the likelihood of achieving breakthrough innovations. These organizing principles include:

the use of small but multi-disciplinary teams of scientists who are granted autonomy in the definition of specific research objectives and in the way they are pursued, compete with each other, and are embedded in a munificent organizational environment, typical of large scientific institutions, which provides them with complementary technological resources, advanced scientific infrastructure, and patient non-competitive funding;
the strong leadership of principal investigators, which however is continuously challenged by younger researchers;
the adoption of human resource management practices relating to aspects such as recruitment, communication of ideas and socialization among scientists, and provision of suitable incentives, including those aimed at leveraging the intrinsic motivations of scientists to advance scientific knowledge;
the design of advanced information technology for storing, analysing, and sharing knowledge, which facilitates coordination of autonomous and geographically dispersed research teams;
and finally, an open approach to IPRs, which is intended to favor knowledge sharing and the capturing of new research opportunities.

It is thus of great academic and practical relevance to open a new line of inquiry on organizing for breakthrough innovation with the aim of assessing whether and under what conditions organizing principles such as those listed above that have proven successful for the organization of science, can be transposed to a corporate environment, and what are the necessary adaptations.

Guest Editors

Massimo G. Colombo, Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (massimo.colombo@polimi.it)

Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (cristina1.rossi@polimi.it)

Paula E. Stephan, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University and National Bureau of Economic Research (pstephan@gsu.edu)

Georg von Krogh, Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation, ETH Zurich (gvkrogh@ethz.ch)

Research questions

Research questions to be addressed by the special issue could be, but are not limited to, the following:

How much autonomy needs to be given to R&D employees in creating breakthrough innovations? How can effective incentives be designed for them? Which balance should they give to extrinsic and intrinsic motivations? Under what conditions can the human resource management practices typical of big scientific projects be successfully adopted by large incumbent firms?
What coordination mechanisms and models and approaches to assess achievements towards breakthrough innovations are most effective in firms? How do they differ from those that are found in big scientific projects?
What approaches to the design and implementation of information technology in big scientific projects can be effectively transposed to firms seeking to support entirely new knowledge creation and radical innovation?
What leadership styles are most successful in fostering breakthrough innovation in a firm context?
Under what conditions does an open approach to intellectual property rights (IPR) promote radical innovation?
Does the recruitment of employees who have previous experience in scientific research, and thus have a mind-set and routines oriented to breakthrough discoveries, favour breakthrough innovation? At which level and in which positions of the corporate hierarchy should firms locate2
these employees? What are the drawbacks of these injections? Can temporary leaves of R&D personnel in scientific institutions be a valid alternative option?
Does geographical distance and institutional heterogeneity between globally dispersed firms involved in exploratory R&D alliances hinder the successful unfolding of the collaboration? Can lessons from big science projects composed of globally dispersed teams and organizations help overcome such barriers?
Can private-public collaborations between firms and universities (and public research organizations) manage to pursue an ambidextrous win-win strategy aimed at both breakthrough scientific discoveries and breakthrough innovations?
What lessons can start-ups and small innovative firms draw from networks of collaborations between small scientific teams?
Are spin-offs from state-of-the-art scientific projects more genetically oriented towards breakthrough innovation than regular corporate- and university-based spin-offs? What are lessons from scientific projects for corporate venturing that aim to foster radical innovation?
Under what conditions can corporate spin-offs combine the advantages of scale and autonomy, thereby contributing to the development of radical new products and services? Which organizational and governance mechanisms allow parent corporations to best benefit from these ventures’ innovation activity?

Submissions to the special issue should be sent electronically through the JPIM ScholarOne system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpim) before May 31, 2015. Authors need to clearly indicate in their submission information and letter that their manuscript is for the Special Issue on Organizing for Breakthrough Innovation. All submissions will be subject to the standard double blind review process followed by JPIM. All manuscripts must be original, unpublished works that are not concurrently under review for publication elsewhere. All submissions should conform to the JPIM manuscript submission guidelines available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291540-5885.

The publication of the special issue is expected in 2017. Questions about this special issue may be directed to any of the guest editors at their email addresses provided above.

References

Carayannopoulos S. (2009) How technology-based new firms leverage newness and smallness to commercialize disruptive technologies. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 33(2), 419–438.

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Journal of Organization Design Volume 3, Issue 3, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:00:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 3, issue number 3, 2014, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). Please enjoy the papers appearing in our last issue of the year. There are several great pieces in this issue, which include three research articles, one translational article, and one case study. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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EIASM EDEN Doctoral Seminar in Organization Design

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:32:44 GMT

Organizations exist because they are a better means of allocating resources than a pure market system. Business entrepreneurs learned more than a century ago that it is preferable to hold resources in the form of a firm than it is to obtain them repeatedly from markets. Doing so allows for more control and predictability, and it gives entrepreneurs time to obtain returns on their investments. Holding resources in organizations allows entrepreneurs to take collective action, and over the years business empires have been built in railroads, steel, automobiles, banks, social media, and information search engines. Today, organizations are used in other sectors as well because they are the most effective means of taking collective action.

The essence of organizing is the ability of individuals, groups, and larger collectives to process information in order to make decisions about identifying and assembling resources. Organizations that cannot process information effectively cannot learn and adapt. The field of organization design was born when entrepreneurs, managers, military commanders, and other strategists focused their attention on how to arrange resources inside their organizations. This seminar will examine how and why organizational designs have evolved over time, and it will describe how the process of designing organizations has expanded as knowledge about organizations and management has accumulated. A particular emphasis will be placed on theories and perspectives that lead to practical designs.

You are asked to read all of the readings before coming to the seminar so that you are prepared to participate actively in the discussions. In addition, please skim through every issue of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net) to see the various types of articles that have been published and the kinds of topics that are covered.

Target audience

The seminar is designed primarily for doctoral students, but post-docs and other early stage researcher may also benefit from attending. We assume students have a basic knowledge of organization theory obtained during their (Research ) Master studies or equivalent. Please let us know if you do not have this basic knowledge of organization theory, and we will provide you with a reading list to prepare for the seminar.

Programme Coordinator & Faculty

Børge Obel, Aarhus University (Programme Coordinator)
Charles Snow, Penn State University
Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Aarhus University

Evaluation

Upon successful completion of the seminar, the participants will be given a certificate and granted 4 ECTS.

Application Process

Interested doctoral students should register online (and add the required documents) no later than January 5, 2015. Besides doctoral students, other researchers may participate. The number of participants will be limited to create a stimulating environment. The selection among the applicants will be conducted by the Institute’s Faculty. They will review the following documents which should necessarily complement each application form:

the applicant’s curriculum vitae demonstrating his/her capabilities of doing research;
a letter of recommendation of his/her local faculty supporting the application;
a two-page description of his/her doctoral research, indicating the general objectives.

Time & Location

The seminar will be held at the Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. The programme will start on March 16, 2015 and is scheduled to end March 19, 2015.

For additional details and registration, please visit EIASM EDEN.

Vienna Conference on Strategy, Organizational Design and Innovation

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:54:59 GMT

On 20 and 21 June 2015, the Strategic Management Subject Area at the University of Vienna will host its biannual conference on Strategy, Organizational Design, and Innovation – an academic conference devoted to discussing fundamental research at the intersections of decision-making, organization theory, and new business developments. The conference will commence on Saturday, 20 June, in the late morning, and it will end on Sunday, 21 June, in the late afternoon. Confirmed keynote speakers and track moderators include:

Adam Brandenburger (J.P. Valles Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University)
Michael Lenox Samuel (L. Slover Research Professor of Business, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)
Zur Shapira (William Berkley Professor of Management, Stern School of Business, New York University, Editor-in-Chief, Organization Science)

Further panellists (tbc) are Phanish Puranam (INSEAD) and Thorbjørn Knudsen (SDU), among others. In this call we solicit submissions of (unpublished) papers from researchers at all levels. While we appreciate all types of contributions that fall under the broader conference theme, we are particularly interested in research that addresses questions of basic interest in the field, such as (combinations of) the following:

The emergence and sustainability of firm-level heterogeneity
Mechanisms of value creation, value appropriation, and their interdependence
Agent rationality and agent behaviour in complex strategic decision-making contexts
New or innovative organization designs; organization design in non-traditional contexts (e.g. governments, NGOs, business ecosystems, open communities, supplier networks, etc.)
The interaction of technical design and organizational structure (e.g. the presence or absence of “mirroring”)
The use of formal models (closed form or computational) in the analysis of organizational design
The use of new methodologies (laboratory and field experiments, SecondLife, etc.) in management research
The mechanistic underpinnings and social challenges of innovation-related phenomena (e.g. green technology, alternative energy, etc.)

We ask contributors to submit their papers electronically to strategic-management@univie.ac.at.

The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2015. Authors will be informed of the acceptance of their papers by 1 March 2015. The Strategic Management Subject Area in Vienna will sponsor hotel accommodation for presenting authors (one per paper) for up to two nights in Vienna.

For further information and updates on the conference, please consult: http://strategy.univie.ac.at/the-vienna-conference-on-strategy-organizational-design-and-innovation/ or email us directly.

Journal of Organization Design Vol. 3, No. 2 Now Online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:52:30 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community has published volume 3, issue number 2, 2014, of the Journal of Organization Design. This issue features our memorial project in honor of Jay R. Galbraith and his many valuable contributions to the field of organization design. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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Organization Design Learning Event in Vienna with Prof. Charles Snow

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:30:00 GMT

We (Lemon Consulting) invite to a learning event in our “Innovation in Organization Development and Leadership Series”: Charles C. Snow: “Designing Organizations for Collaborative Innovation”, Jan 19-20, 2015, Vienna. Charles Snow is Professor for Management at Penn State University and Co-Founder of the Journal of Organization Design.

The workshop will focus on bridging the gap between the theory and practice of organization design. We will start with an introduction into current perspectives on organization design and their relation to organization development and management theory. Special emphasis then will be given to new forms of organizing that are increasingly being used to organize for collaborative innovation. Such designs take advantage of community values and processes, and they present the special challenge of creating organizational forms that extend beyond the single company and do not rely on hierarchical mechanisms for control and coordination. Guided by inputs from theory and research, the workshop will include discussions and reflections among the participants.

Date: January 19-20, 2015

Day 1: 10.00-19.00, dinner until 20.30; Day 2: 9.00–15.30

Location: Bruno Kreisky Forum, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190, Vienna

Organizers: Lemon Consulting (AT), Hantschk, Klocker & Partner (AT, CH), Chronos Info (CRO)

EARLY BOOKING until Sept 7, 2014; www.lemon.at/charles-c-snow-designing-organizations-for-collaborative-innovation.html

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Jay Galbraith (1939-2014)

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:30:00 GMT

ODC has learned that Jay Galbraith, one of our founding members, passed away last week. That same week, the Journal of Organization Design published a special issue on big data and organization design with the lead article written by Jay. The special issue was the culmination of the World Summit on Big Data and Organization Design, held in Paris in May 2013. Jay was one of the keynote speakers in Paris. Also, the third edition of his book Designing Organizations was published just a few weeks ago.

Jay’s name is synonymous with organization design theory and practice. His concept of information processing as the basis of organization design and capability has been the inspiration for many researchers in organization design. Jay developed his widely recognized Star Model (TM) for analyzing organizations in the 1960s, and it is a framework that any company can use to make its strategic design choices. His work has received more than 10,000 Google citations, and he was a consultant to many of the world’s leading companies. Numerous organizations have benefitted from his insights and writings – particularly about how to master the difficult task of getting a global matrix structure to work.

Jay loved his research and consulting work, and he was active until the end. His contributions to the field of organization design are immense, and he will be greatly missed in our community.

Børge Obel & Charles Snow

Journal of Organization Design Vol. 3, No. 1 Now Online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:30:00 GMT

The special issue stems from papers presented at the World Summit on Big Data and Organization Design, which was held at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris) on May 16-17, 2013. Initiated by the Organizational Design Community (ODC) and co-sponsored by IBM, the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture (ICOA) at Aarhus university (Denmark), and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, the conference featured 11 keynote and distinguished speakers and included 130 participants from 26 countries. The speakers and participants represented academia, business, and government. Seventy-four papers co-authored by the 130 participants were accepted by the Organizing Committee. The articles in this special issue offer a selection of the issues and opportunities posed by big data and their implications for organizations. This special issues include three research articles, two point of view articles, and one case study. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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Big Data is highly valuable – but we need more research

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:00:00 GMT

Big Data can help streamline a company’s production or improve our welfare services. But we cannot make the most of Big Data until we have learned to harness the vast amount of information. This is the conclusion of a new international White Paper based on input from 130 researchers, business professionals and governmental officials. The paper has been sent to the European Commission. The initiators hope that their call-to-action will give rise to new research and funding activities.

When you use your credit card you produce data about what you have bought, where and when. Google uses your online searches to forecast when and where the next flu epidemic will occur. Big Data is created constantly and everywhere, and by exploiting this knowledge about our whereabouts and behaviour, private and public organisations can optimise their production and services.

But according to Professor Børge Obel, who is centre director of Aarhus University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Organizational Architecture (ICOA), we must learn to process and handle all of these intangible data before we can profit properly.

"Big Data holds countless opportunities as well as liabilities. We need more research on relevant issues in order to learn to exploit Big Data properly with the right legislation and regulation," says Børge Obel, who is one of the initiators of a new comprehensive report, Unleashing the Potential of Big Data. The White Paper was developed by the research centre ICOA at Aarhus University in collaboration with Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, IBM and the Organizational Design Community.

The White Paper is the product of the World Summit on Big data and Organization Design, which was held at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris in May 2013. The participants were representatives of the business community, government representatives and the world’s leading researchers on Big Data.

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Journal of Organization Design Vol. 2, No. 3 Now Online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:00:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 2, issue number 3, 2013, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). Please enjoy the papers appearing in our last issue of the year. There are several great pieces in this issue, including a special topic on Making Organization Design Knowledge Actionable with a case study of and commentaries on Ascension Health. In addition there is a translational article and one point of view article. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting.

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Journal of Organization Design Volume 2, Issue 2, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:30:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 2, issue number 2, 2013, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting. This issue contains three research articles, one case study, and one point of view. Enjoy this new issue and please help us spread the news!

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Journal of Organization Design Volume 2, Issue 1, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published volume 2, issue number 1, 2013, of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting. This issue contains an editorial, two research articles, one case study (our new article section), and two points of view. Enjoy and spread the news!

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World Summit on Big Data and Organization Design

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:30:00 GMT

Academics and practitioners are invited to participate in the World Summit on Big Data and Organization Design, May 16-17, 2013, at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne 1, Paris. Participation requires membership of the Organizational Design Community or special invitation. If you are interested in participating write the orgdesign@asb.dk for an invitation or membership.

The conference is co-hosted by the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne 1, IBM, ICOA, Aarhus University, and the Organizational Design Community.

This is an event for a carefully selected group of academics and business representatives to work together on the future challenges of big data and organization design. The number of participants is limited to 100 people.

Process

To extract your knowledge and views, we would like you to submit a position paper with your thoughts on:

The State of the Art on Big Data
Your current work on Big Data, in particular, on teaching, research, applications, and its expected outcomes
Your future work on Big Data
Your foreseen Challenges/Issues and Recommendations

You can submit your paper at: http://icoa.au.dk/conferences-workshops/big-data-and-organization-design

Please use the template found here: http://icoa.au.dk/conferences-workshops/big-data-and-organization-design/about-the-workshop/

To ensure the maximum outcome, the workshop process requires a high level of pre-workshop interaction from all participants. You will be asked to contribute to the pre-workshop actions in one of five virtual groups, each developing a report on the most relevant perspectives of Big Data and Organizational Design, based on the submitted position papers. The five work groups are: 1) University/Business driven Applications, 2) University/Public driven Applications, 3) Data Challenges, 4) Organization Impacts, and 5) Partnership/Fellowship. A workgroup chair will drive this process, and all participants are expected to participate.

Outcome

The pre-workshop papers will be distributed to all participants prior to the conference. The papers will be discussed at the conference and will form the basis of a white paper on Big Data and Organizational Design to be submitted to leading decision makers, including the European Union and national governments.

Following the summit, the Journal of Organization Design will run a special issue on organization design and big data, where you are invited to submit a paper.

Costs

The workshop sponsors have kindly agreed to cover all conference participation fees. However, you are responsible for your own costs of travel and accommodation.

We hope that you will find this interesting and are looking forward to seeing you in Paris.

Please let us know if you are interested in participating and will submit a position paper by replying to this email: orgdesign@asb.dk

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Journal of Organization Design Volume 1, Issue 3, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:00:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published issue number 3 of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). The publication of issue 3 concludes the journal's first full volume of 2012. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting. This issue contains three research articles, one translational article, and two points of view. Some of these articles are also accompanied by an introduction video by the author explaining why the article is important and why you should read it. Enjoy!

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Journal of Organization Design Volume 1, Issue 2, now online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:30:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published issue number 2 of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). The issue was launched on 3 August during the inaugural ODC conference in Boston hosted by Harvard Business School. We are very excited about this new publication and hope you find the content interesting. This is the first full issue containing research articles, a translational article, point of view, and urgent issue. Some of these articles are also accompanied by an introduction video by the author explaining why the article is important and why you should read it. Enjoy!

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Journal of Organization Design Vol. 1, No. 1: The Future of Organization Design, Now Online!

Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:30:00 GMT

It is a great pleasure to inform you that the Organizational Design Community (www.orgdesigncomm.com) has published its first issue of the Journal of Organization Design (www.jorgdesign.net). We are very excited about the release and hope you find the content interesting. There is already a large handful of articles ready for issues 2 and 3, and we are very excited about these too and the work that is ahead of us to finish volume 1. We would also like to inform you that the journal is open for the ODC members to submit their papers.

Celebrating the launch of the journal at ICOA.

(Left to right: Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Marianne Sejthen, George P. Huber, Børge Obel, Morten Bygvraa Rasmussen, Anne Bøllingtoft)

The seven articles in the first issue of JOD will be presented by the authors and discussed in a session at the inaugural ODC conference to be held at the Harvard Business School on Friday, August 3, 2012. There are still opportunities for you to attend the conference (at this point approximately 30 available seats). Please send an e-mail to orgdesign@asb.dk if you want to participate (participation requires membership in the ODC).

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