LATEST INTELLIGENCE
DESIGNING ADAPTABLE ORGANISATIONS
FOR TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES
PRESENTED BY
Commentary on CRF’s
research findings
This timely and robust report calls out
the unprecedented challenges that
organisations, today, are facing. Digital
disruption, complexity and connectedness
are ubiquitous themes throughout.
Organisations must learn to adapt.
They must be responsive to ever-evolving
business strategies, as well as help their
people flourish during change.
Nowhere is change happening more rapidly
than in digital transformation. To respond
effectively, businesses need faster organisation
design cycles. As the report concludes, it is
no longer sufficient to rely on the unfreeze-
change-refreeze approach to design. Instead,
a process of continuous change is needed –
one that is driven by in-house HR teams and
seeks to constantly adjust designs in response
to evolving strategy.
This continual cycle of organisation design
is a new, Board-level mandate for HR, but
it is not a common strength. Worryingly,
only 39% of research participants feel
they have strong organisation design skills
within HR. What a missed opportunity
for HR to take a more central role in
the development of the organisation.
Given 89% of respondents have recently
gone through or are still going through
a reorganisation, and a further 68%
expect more change in the next two years,
building capability in this area should be of
paramount importance. n
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