Org Design is such a mystical business skill. We can put as much science and analytics behind it, but so much that comes down to the ‘black magic’ of corporate culture, which, as i see it, is essentially a ’speed of the leader, speed of the team’ issue.
Mootee has a great post about the social nature of organizations and how a social reality is constructed through the organizations we create/live in. http://tinyurl.com/6yzyq4.
I love noodling about how organizations can be more effectively deisgned. We’re dealing with lots of these issues in end user adoption of SharePoint portals. We’ve designed a whole offering to account for the problems we’ve seen surface. I’ll link to it once we get our service on the web site.
