March 8th 2018
Designing Adaptable Organisations for Tomorrow's Challenges
The context for organisations today is characterised by complexity, rapid technological advances, and digital disruption. Organisations are experiencing fundamental shifts in their business models and have to constantly reinvent themselves in order to remain competitive. Indeed, 89% of respondents to our survey said their organisation had either recently reorganised or had a reorganisation underway. This research report reviews the latest thinking in organisational design, exploring how organisations are seeking to resolve a core tension: how to balance the need for agility and responsiveness to customer needs while achieving the benefits of operating at a global scale.
View Research
August 20th 2018
CRF Survey Slide Pack: Designing Adaptable Organisations
Today’s organisations exist in a context of rapid and continuous change, digital disruption, and complexity. The key challenge for organisation designers in this context is to balance the organisation’s core tension between agility and scale. Access this document to learn more about the current pace of change and redesign in organisations.
View Tool
December 3rd 2013
Organising for Complexity
Corporate Research Forum's Gillian Pillans explains the organisation design options for global enterprises to operate successfully in an increasingly demanding and fast-changing world.
Read Article
November 12th 2015
Organisation Agility in Challenging Times
A case study from BT exploring the steps taken by the organisation to transform itself, thrive and grow.
View Presentation
September 20th 2013
Emerging Approaches to Organisation Design
Our research report focuses on the impact of emerging organisational design solutions and how they can help manage complexity and innovation. We specifically focus on organisational agility, performance; team-based work designs; the role of internal and external networks; virtual and network organisations and designing for sustainability.
View Research
November 11th 2015
Executive Summary: Organisation Agility
This executive summary gives an overview of CRF’s full research report on Organisation Agility. This report considers the implications of organisation agility for HR, both in terms of designing agile HR practices and HR’s role in supporting the organisation to become more agile. It identifies the practical steps organisations can take on their journey towards agility and features a number of member case studies illustrating how organisations are starting the transformation journey to agility.
Read Executive Summary
