Zombie Structures: Legacy Challenges in Organizational Transformations

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on January 10, 2025

When organizations transition to flatter structures, they often aspire to empower teams, foster collaboration, and enable agile decision-making. Yet, one of the most common challenges we encounter when we are being called into an organization is the persistence of "zombie structures." These are legacy habits, processes, and behaviors that refuse to stay buried, undermining the transformation effort. With our methodology, these challenges don’t linger because we proactively address them during the transformation process.

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Topics: Organization Design, Business Innovation, Adaptability, OrgDesign

Happy 2025: Designing Organizations with Purpose

As we welcome 2025, we want to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Reflecting on the past year, we’re deeply grateful for the positive impact we’ve created together with our clients. Now, we look forward to a year filled with adaptive organization design, business model innovations, and business transformation.

 

While the new year naturally brings action-oriented energy, it’s also a valuable opportunity to reflect, plan, and align with the goals that truly matter. What do we want to achieve in 2025? How can our business create meaningful change? And how can we ensure that the transformation we undertake leads to a positive, lasting impact—both within our organizations and beyond?

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Topics: Organization Design, Business Innovation, Adaptability, OrgDesign

5 Organization Design Questions to Prepare for 2025!

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on December 23, 2024
December is more than just the last chapter of the year; it’s a month rich with opportunity. It invites us to de-clutter, de-tach, de-lete, and even de-compose the habits, processes, and ideas that no longer serve us. It’s a season for making space—not just in our personal lives, but within our organizations—for what truly matters.
 

For leaders, this reflective process goes beyond tidying up. It’s about creating room to innovate, realign, and prepare for the road ahead. As the year draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to ask bold, transformative questions that challenge the status quo and unlock new pathways to success.

 

Here are five powerful organization design questions to guide your thinking and set the stage for a stronger, more focused 2025.

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Topics: Organization Design, Adaptability

Shifting Focus: Organization Design to Generate Expertise

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on December 13, 2024

Organization design has long been recognized as critical to driving business impact. This trend has prompted many companies to establish internal functions, from Organizational Design teams to expanding C-suite roles, such as Chief Transformation Officer. Additionally, reorganizations are on the rise. McKinsey data shows that nearly 60% of executives have experienced organizational redesigns within the past two years, and 25% more companies are redesigning three or more times as often as they did just a few years ago. These developments evidence the growing number of businesses embracing organizational design to enhance adaptability and ensure business continuity. While this is a promising trend, the challenge now lies in moving beyond approaches that might necessitate frequent redesigns, toward creating systems that naturally regenerate and evolve dynamically.

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Topics: Organization Design, Adaptability, Expertise, Generative Learning

Adaptive Organization Design - Podcast Episode

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on November 9, 2024
In the 40th episode of the OrgDev Podcast, Dr. Erika Jacobi, President of LC GLOBAL®, joins the hosts to explore Adaptive Organization Design. Reaching listeners in over 60 countries, this episode provides essential insights for leaders and teams navigating today’s fast-paced environment.
 
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Topics: Organization Design, Adaptability, EmployeeEngagement

Innovating Your Team Process to Navigate the New World of Work

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on September 5, 2023

A recent Forbes Counsel article discusses some of the biggest challenges tech leaders are currently facing and how they intend to tackle them. 4 out of 20 leaders thought that it was crucial to responsibly integrate AI in business or utilize it to optimize workflows. 2 thought that workforce planning and combatting burn-out were top on the list.

 

The remaining 12 answers circled – one way or another – around team process and effectiveness, especially in light of the consistently changing work circumstances.


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Topics: Adaptability, Team Process, New Work, Team Collaboration

Agile Decision-Making: Clarity versus Confidence

The pandemic has magnified one of the most prominent difficulties leaders face during volatile times. Despite insufficient information, executives must make deeply consequential decisions, often on the spot.

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Topics: Innovation, Business Agility, Agile Decision Making, Adaptability

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