Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
LOS ANGELES — October 6, 2026 — The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the USC Marshall School of Business today announced the hiring of Alexis Fink, PhD, a three-decade technology and people-analytics executive with senior roles at Meta, Microsoft, Intel,...
View Slides Everyone is asking how many jobs AI will eliminate, and doomsayers warn of a coming jobs apocalypse. But most forecasts rely on a flawed assumption: that work can be cleanly broken into tasks, automated in isolation, and then translated directly into...
View Slides In partnership, The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) & Organization Design Forum (ODF) presented Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach with Ewa Kacewicz, Head of Organization Design...
View Slides Two of the most respected voices in HR leadership - Susan Kelliher, former CHRO of Chemours, and Patrick McLaughlin, former CHRO of PepsiCo Foods North America had a candid, forward-looking conversation grounded in decades of experience leading world-class...
https://vimeo.com/1139023447/412bde228b?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci View the Slides AI is bringing a tsunami of change, challenge and opportunity to organizations. Everything from product development and backend operations, to the basics of how work is organized...
AI is going – and has already started – to transform how work is done within organizations. Anywhere people are asked to weigh in on decisions has the potential to be disrupted by AI. And in these early days, it’s really hard to say for certain what the limitations of AI will be in most cases.
What does it truly take to build a responsive, high-performing organization—one that learns, adapts, and thrives over time? To answer that, Chris Worley unpacks what agility really means—beyond the buzzword—as well as how AI is transforming organizational life and what it takes to lead through today’s complexity.
In this podcast, Chris Worley discusses the importance of agility in modern organizations, how performance is measured, and the challenges companies face today, emphasizing organizational resilience, strategic communication, and the impact of artificial intelligence on business goals. He also explores the complexity of organizations, the evolving nature of strategy and its teaching, the critical role of leadership in a constantly changing environment, and the growing need for social responsibility.
In this updated edition, Mark G. Ehrhart, Benjamin Schneider and William H. Macey present a thorough examination of both the history and current status of research in each field, as well as areas for their potential integration. Academics, practitioners, and students will all deepen their understanding of how organizations function and will gain insights into how to improve both organizational research and organizational effectiveness.
We recently partnered with a rapidly growing stored energy solutions company to enhance its internal organization design capabilities. This engagement was initiated by the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), who, familiar with our renowned organization design...
We recently concluded a year-long strategic initiative within the R&D function of a leading consumer products company. The project's objective was to envision and design their organization structure for 2030, in alignment with the company's established vision and...
This article is the third in a three-part series on applying systems diagnostics to understand the sources of organizational underperformance (Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change), why transformations often fail to deliver (Designing transformations to avoid failure), and how to keep transformations from going off course (this one). It is based in part on my Strategic Analytics book. The issues addressed in the series will be covered in depth in the upcoming workshop Driving Organizational Change with Data.