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Designing Organizations for the Digital World

Dec 11, 2017 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design

In this webinar, Stu Winby, President, Spring Networks, will join CEO Research Scientists Sue Mohrman and Chris Worley to discuss and give examples of the fundamentally changed organization designs that are emerging.

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Organization Design Capabilities: What Organizations Need to be Agile in Today’s Increasingly Turbulent World

Jan 10, 2017 | Organization Design

During this webinar, Sue Mohrman and Chris Worley provide an overview of organization design, describe its importance, and make the business case for an internal design capability.

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Building Management Processes to Support Agility

May 10, 2016 | Agility, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Thomas Williams (PwC Strategy LLP), Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explain how agile organizations continuously adjust to changing circumstances by, for example, launching new products or eliminating old ones, entering new markets or exiting underperforming ones, or building new capabilities. This requires management processes that can support adaptability over time.

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Weaving Change Capability into the Fabric of the Organization

Apr 26, 2016 | Change Management

Organizations are in the midst of fundamental shifts in how they are managed and designed. They are being forced to compete in an environment full of moving pieces, activist stakeholders, and volatile marketplaces. Chris Worley, Sue Mohrman, and special guest Becky Spears (Oracle) discuss these issues.

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How HR Supports Organization Agility, 2/29/2016

Feb 29, 2016 | Agility, Organization Design

In this webinar, Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman, Senior Research Scientists and Directors of CEO’s Organization Design Program, describe the foundations of agility – how the full systems design using the Star Model compliments today’s VUCA world.

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Built to Change

Dec 22, 2015 | Change Management

DVD featuring Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley. Based on the book Built to Change. Lawler and Worley highlight the major themes in their book with practical examples.

Changing Tires on a Moving Car: Management Processes that Support Agility

Nov 18, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

The term “agility” gets tossed around a lot these days. Strategists tout the virtues of strategic agility, fast strategy, and resilience.

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Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability

Sep 15, 2015 | Agility

Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Reflecting the principles presented in The Agility Factor, readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This...

Agility’s Dirty Little Secret

May 15, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content

Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Thomas Williams (PwC Strategy), and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO)
The Agility Pyramid describes how the four agility routines and management processes work together to keep an organization’s capabilities effective and refreshed.

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Organization Agility and Talent Management

Apr 10, 2015 | Agility, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Christopher G. Worley (CEO) uses case studies on Netflix and oDesk to show that organizations can create an agile workforce by adopting a set of talent management practices that encourage employees to learn and develop, and by reducing the transaction costs associated with changing the skill sets in their workforce.

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Top-down, bottom-up, outside-in, and from the middle out: Where traditional change processes fall short, 12/12/14, recording/slides

Dec 12, 2014 | Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Sustainability

Eric Severson, Senior Vice President, Global Talent Solutions at Gap, Inc., talked about the integration of the many vectors of change that have been simultaneously unfolding as Gap Inc. has worked to achieve sustainable effectiveness as defined by business/financial and market success, meeting the needs of today’s global workforce, and pursuing world-leading corporate responsibility.

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Misconceptions Of Agility, 10/6/14, recording/slides

Oct 6, 2014 | Agility

In this webinar, Chris Worley, Tom Williams, and Ed Lawler will present and discuss several of the leading “misconceptions of agility”.

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