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Using AI to Transform Organizations: The Promise and the Barriers

Using AI to Transform Organizations: The Promise and the Barriers

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Podcast: Understanding Agility That Transforms Organizations

Podcast: Understanding Agility That Transforms Organizations

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.

Organizational Climate and Culture: An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice

Organizational Climate and Culture: An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice

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.

Diagnosing and adjusting transformations to ensure success

Diagnosing and adjusting transformations to ensure success

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.

Designing transformations to avoid failure

Designing transformations to avoid failure

This article is the second 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 (this one), and how to keep transformations from going off course (Diagnosing and adjusting transformations to ensure success)). It is based in part on my Strategic Analytics book. The issues addressed in the series will be covered in depth in the upcoming virtual workshop Driving Organizational Change with Data.

Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change

Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change

This article is the first in a two-part series on applying systems diagnostics to understand the sources of organizational underperformance (this article) and why transformations often fail to deliver (next article). It is based in part on Alec Levenson’s Strategic Analytics book. The issues addressed in the series will be covered in depth in the upcoming virtual workshop Driving Organizational Change with Data.

How Organization Agility Produces Sustained Performance: Bringing Coherence to Diverse Conceptual Perspectives (Download)

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Why and how organizations change – especially in competitive and dynamic environments – are central questions in organization theory and strategic management. Organization agility (OA) has emerged as a construct to describe the way organizations adapt quickly to continuous disruption and change, and theories explaining how OA works and produces performance outcomes have proliferated.

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WEBINAR: Building Organizational Capability to Improve Strategy Execution

WEBINAR: Building Organizational Capability to Improve Strategy Execution

September 26, 2023
With Alec Levenson and Carl Watson

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