Future of Work and Agility
Organisation Design for Agility
In-Person: 8.15 – 16.00
As technological, geopolitical and social forces increase the complexity of doing business, the need to design organisations that enable people to make faster and better decisions becomes ever more pressing. Organisations must manage a core tension between being agile and responsive to customer needs while achieving economies of scale, all in an increasingly virtual and digitally enabled environment.
This masterclass, led by global organisation design expert Amy Kates, will outline the key issues and essential frameworks and tools, enabling attendees to apply them in their organisation. Using real-life cases to illustrate the decisions that organisations have taken in response to their business challenges, Amy will take us through an interactive session that explores the latest thinking in organisation design.
The online session, one week after the in-person masterclass, will feature an ‘in conversation’ with Amy Kates.
These events will be accompanied by a CRF Research Report.
Learning Objectives:
- Deepen your understanding and ability to apply the latest organisation design models and frameworks.
- Explore how to design for organisation agility and to balance economies of scale and customer responsiveness.
- Gain insight from experts and peers on how to tackle the organisation design challenges of your business.
Pre-event breakfast masterclass
Transforming Work Itself: The Key to Agile Organisational Design
As demographic shifts and generational attitudes collide with impacts from the recent pandemic, organisations must adapt to the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
In this breakfast Masterclass, Mercer’s Pavan Bilkhoo and Paul Habgood will share insights from recent research and discuss practical examples of how to enhance employee experiences, drive growth and enable agility in your workforce.
Join us to explore Mercer’s cutting-edge approaches to job and work design that can unlock productivity gains while enabling your workforce to thrive. The future of work is here!
If you are interested in attending the pre-event breakfast masterclass, please contact events@crforum.co.uk.
Who is this Event for?
HR Directors and senior OD and HR professionals involved in organisation design.
Speakers
Amy Kates
Managing Partner, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting
Amy Kates is an organisation designer and managing partner at Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, based in New York City. She advises business leaders around the world and teaches programmes at the Executive School of Business, Denmark and Cornell University Executive Education. Her career began as a city planner and Urban Fellow following a Master’s degree from Cornell. She has written four books on the topic of organisation design with Greg Kesler and Jay Galbraith. Amy also serves as a Visiting Fellow to the government of Singapore.
Sam Holmes
Managing Director, Accenture Kates Kesler
Sam is a Managing Director in Accenture Kates Kesler and leads the exciting operating model and organisation design work we do for clients across Europe. Specifically, he advises CEOs, CHROs and their teams on how to accelerate growth, by designing and implementing new enterprise operating models – as well as functional operating models in the areas of digital, analytics and commerce. He is particularly passionate about some of the new organisational models emerging, and the potential impact these can have on how large business operate.
He primarily works with clients in the Consumer Goods sector, but also has experience in life sciences, retail, consumer electronics, communications, professional services and with the platform businesses.
David Price-Stephens
Managing Director, Accenture Kates Kesler Organization Strategy Practice
David is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Kates Kesler Organization Strategy practice. He is an experienced transformation leader with over 20 years of consulting and industry experience. He specialises in strategy execution, operating model and organisation design, leadership development, culture change and HR advisory work.
David has a proven ability to work with senior/executive teams to understand the organisational implications of strategy and to identify the capabilities, processes and structures that will be required across a business to enable more effective execution of strategic priorities, harness the potential of people/talent, improve operational performance and reduce cost. He has a reputation for being able to grapple with complexity and for developing pragmatic solutions that can be implemented to deliver a tangible impact.
Prior to Kates Kesler, he gained his consulting experience at Korn Ferry, Deloitte, PwC and Arthur Andersen. He also spent three years at Jaguar Land Rover as an HR Director and leader of their Global Transformation Program.
He holds a BSc and MPhil in Psychology, Human Factors from the University of Manchester.
Prateek Sinha
Partner CEO.Works and Head of Strategy Muuto Consulting
Prateek Sinha is a recognised change agent who brings a deep understanding of complex transformations and corporate dynamics to accelerate value realisation by bridging strategy and execution. As an advisor and delivery partner, Prateek works with leaders to scope, shape, and execute change that delivers value while building organisation capability. He has profitably orchestrated, led, and delivered change in multinationals as an internal consultant (Shell, British Telecom) and external consultant (Accenture, CapGemini).
Gillian Pillans
Research Director, Corporate Research Forum
Gillian has worked as a senior HR practitioner and OD specialist for several organisations including Swiss Re, Vodafone and BAA. Prior to her HR career, she was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and is also a qualified solicitor. Gillian has written various CRF reports on subjects including HR strategy, organisation design and development, leadership development, coaching and diversity.
