On 11 October at 12:00 there will be an ODA seminar by Charles Snow (Penn State) & Øystein D. Fjeldstad (BI Norwegian Business School).

Room: 2628-303

Title: Designing Adaptive Organizations

Abstract
The ability to organize is our most valuable social technology, and the successful organizational design of an enterprise can increase its efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to adapt. Modern organizations operate in increasingly complex, dynamic, and interconnected environments, which puts a premium on rapid adaptation. Compared with traditional organizations, modern organizations are flatter and more open to their environments. Their processes are more generative and interactive – actors themselves generate and coordinate solutions rather than follow hierarchically devised plans and directives. They also search outside their boundaries for resources wherever they may exist and coproduce products and services with suppliers, customers, and partners, collaborating – both internally and externally – to learn and become more capable. In this volume, leading voices in the field of organization design demonstrate how a combination of agile processes, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms can power adaptive, sustainable, and healthy organizations.

I will provide an overview of C.C. Snow and O.D. Fjeldstad (eds.), Designing Adaptive Organizations, to be published by Cambridge University Press in November 2023. Collectively, the chapters argue that the field of organization design is experiencing a paradigm shift – a change in the basic concepts and practices in this scientific discipline. Based on the overview, we can discuss the future of organization design moving forward.

Everyone is welcome!