Innerpeoplecentricity

Forward-looking organizations experiment with different types of organizational structure design to enforce business alignment, enablement, communication, collaboration, and harmony.

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. 

 From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development to harness peop;e-centricity?

  Design for People-Centricity

Innatepeoplecentricity We are in the era of information exponentially and hyper-connectivity, contemporary organizations are all about people-centricity, empathy, innovation, agility, and high-level business maturity. One of the key determinants of whether an organization can move to the personalized digital age is how well it can engage employees, delight customers and truly understand their stakeholders to run a people-centric organization. "People-Centric Organization '' means very different things to different people. The management needs to clarify the concept about what the people-centricity means to their organization, where, and to which extent it is real, as well as how to take initiatives, and who are their ideal workforce to lead the change they would like to see.


Connecting Relevant Dots of Organizational Strategy, Structure and Business Performance Traditional management runs in silos; silos introduce lots of delays, waste, queues, and bottlenecks. The linear business system perception needs to be replaced by the adaptive digital system viewpoint. Digital management needs to be holistic and informative for overcoming the challenges brought by “VUCA” new normal.

Characteristics of Future Organization With rapid changes and exponential growth of information, the forward-looking view of the organization is to determine what the future needs to look like and how business leaders can navigate digital new normal smoothly.

The Organizational Structure Innovation Digital transformation is the scalable expansion toward multiple directions. The organization should keep tuning its structure and process to become more adaptable. There are different theories of organizational structure innovation and the format of the future of the organization etc. The whole point is how to build a more creative and productive working environment in which the employees’ potential can be unleashed, and business as a whole is superior to the sum of its parts.

Fine Tune the Digital Organizational Structure Tuning the organizational design and structure to achieve a high level of autonomy is the symbol of digital maturity. The majority of organizations are designed to improve functional efficiency in the industrial era. But digital masters move a few steps ahead, focus on shaping changeability, innovation, and people-centricity. However, the digital transformation won’t happen overnight, organizations need to have an in-depth understanding of the gains and pains of organizational design and development, follow the digital principles to plan, experiment and scale-up for improving strategic responsiveness and structural flexibility of their business.

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