Organizational Design

AI vs. IA – HR Is Responsible For Keeping A Healthy Balance

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For decades, we have referred to people in organizations as “Human Resources” — a term rooted in an industrial-era mindset where humans were grouped with machines, raw materials, and land. In that old worldview, humans were not seen as unique value creators but as replaceable, allocatable, optimizable units of labor. That linguistic choice was never … Read more

What Type Of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters Will AI Eat For Lunch?

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Previous Publications You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” Avoid False Equivalency In Selecting Your Guides Scrum Master’s Resume To Steer Away From Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This! Why Agile Roles Are Being Eliminated? What Are Systemic Root Causes Of This? “Agile Coaches Are Not … Read more

Product Definition as a Function of Tech Stack Ownership: How Cloud Models Can Explain Certain Limitations

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We often talk about a product definition, as a function of organizational design. Very true. Here are some additional thoughts on a product definition, as a function of technology stack ownership, with an organizational design, of course, also being a factor. In modern organizations, few things reveal strategic maturity more clearly than the way a … Read more

AI Fever and the Great Hiring Implosion: When Machines Hire Machines

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Somewhere between the “AI revolution” and the “future of work,” companies collectively lost their minds. In a frenzy to look innovative and data-driven, they handed over one of their most critical human functions—hiring other humans—to algorithms that can’t even explain their own decisions. The result? A beautiful mess of corporate self-sabotage wrapped in buzzwords, dashboards, … Read more

The Power of System Thinking: Understanding Organizations And Their System Dynamics

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Introduction Organizations are not simple machines that can be tuned by tightening one screw or swapping out one part. They are living ecosystems made up of people, processes, tools, and norms. These ecosystems operate through dynamic cause-and-effect relationships—feedback loops that can either improve, stabilize or deteriorate the system. System Thinking provides a way to see … Read more