Tag: organisational structure

With increasing alacrity, businesses must recognise the crucial need to transform their organisational structures. This is necessary to keep pace with the rapidly evolving digital landscape. However, it’s equally important for organisations to consider the associated risks. This will ensure long-term resilience.

The phenomenon of job-title inflation has gained traction in South Africa, driven both by young professional’s ambition for accelerated career progression and employers' efforts to engage staff while managing costs. This trend has led to an increase in roles with prestigious titles, such as 'Lead', 'Vice President', or 'Manager', being offered to individuals with limited experience, skills, or corresponding salaries.

The tragic collapse of an apartment building in George earlier this year, which resulted in the loss of 34 lives, serves as a stark reminder of the critical importance of adhering to best practices in construction to manage risk and ensure compliance.

It is important for developers to understand the domain and the significance of domain mastery in software technology. The pivotal role of Sprint 0 in successful product implementation is highlighted, emphasising that it is not just for discovery but also a comprehensive exploration of the domain at hand. Developers must grasp the client’s revenue streams to maximise client success.

In Sci-Fi, the Grandfather Paradox hypothesises that if one should travel into the past and change certain key events, the future will also be changed or even become unrecognisable. But what if we turn this hypothesis on its head, defining a desirable future and then reverse engineer the requisite actions to achieve this future? Unlike the Grandfather Paradox which, as far as we know, only lives in Sci-Fi movies and novels, backcasting is completely possible.

In the dynamic landscape of contemporary business, team-based work and cross-functional projects are rapidly replacing traditional organisational structures, with an increasing number of leading-edge organisations embracing collaboration-driven models.

Welcome to a guidebook for managers and leaders navigating the challenges of our evolving world. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the global, unpredictable, and intense nature of our surroundings, necessitating both resilience and sensitivity.

Do not underestimate the strength of job evaluation in the organisational design process. Many companies are rightly worried in today’s world about the efficiency of their organisational structures.

Back in 2007, Michael Hammer, the father of the process-centred organisation, wrote in the Harvard Business Review that few executives question the idea that by redesigning business processes - work that runs from end to end across an enterprise - they can achieve extraordinary improvements in cost, quality, speed, profitability, and other key areas.

If You Don’t Do Politics, Politics Will Do You will open your eyes to the fundamentals you didn’t know you need to know – the fundamentals no-one ever teaches you, including what office politics actually are and how being politically intelligent is the single biggest determinant of your personal and professional success.