Organization Design Community Conference 2015

Organizational Design Community Conference 2015

August 9, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, CA

The conference program was designed and produced by ODC Conference Co-chairs John Joseph and Yue Maggie Zhou
The videos below were produced through a collaborative project of the Organization Design Community and the Global Organization Design Society
 
The program has three sessions and the design in each session includes first a senior academic, a young academic, and a practitioner.
 
 Program overview
 

ODC conference welcome, format, and schedule

John Joseph, University of California at Irvine
 
Presenter's slides
 
 
Microfoundations of organizational design: A focus on culture


Designing Cultures and Organizational Architectures

William Ocasio, Northwestern University

Presenter's slides

 

 

From problem solvers to solution seekers:  dismantling knowledge boundaries at NASA

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, New York University

Presenter's slides

 

Culture, Hierarchy and Freedom

Arden Hoffman, Dropbox 

Presenter's slides - none

 

Designing governance, ecosystems and interorganizational relationships for creating value and innovation 

Designing Around Bottlenecks

Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School

Presenter's slides

 

 

 

 Stitching Ties: Physician Networks and Hospital's Surgical Care Performance

Russell Funk, University of Minnesota

Presenter's slides

 

 

Managing The Forces For Organizational Change

Ron Nicol, Boston Consulting Group

Presenter's slides

 

 

Resources, capabilities and organizational design


Redesigning Business Models? The Performance Effects of Replication and Renewal in Dynamic Environments

Henk Volberda, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Presenter's slides

 

 

For Love and Money: Identity Processes and the Creative Integration of an Organization’s Social and Financial Goals

Tyler Wry, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Presenter's slides

 

Organizational Design in the Corporate Setting: Group behaviors to make Design work

Eric Rowlee and Kai Togami, Walmart 

Presenter's slides

 

 

 

Reflections on the day

 

 

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design