Organizational Design – Authentic Organizations

Pattern Language for Generative Interactions: 3 Approaches to Learn

May 9, 2014

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in Generative Orgs, Organizational Design, Uncategorized

Designers use Pattern Language — a lexicon and grammar that communicate the details of how and why a design is terrific — to share expertise and promote good design. We need a pattern language for business-to-business relationships. We need to be able to define, design and simply talk about business relationships that are generative. “Good design” tends…

What Makes Digital Tech Companies Models of Generativity?

Mar 13, 2014

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cv harquail

in Boost Economy, Communities of Commerce, Generative Orgs, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Sustainability & Greening

Buffer, WordPress, AirBnB, Waze, LoveWithFood, ModCloth, Etsy— so many of the organizations I’m using as examples of generative businesses share a similar profile: They are relatively small, young, organized around a core software process or product, filled with coders and developers, and part of a specific tech community. Why is generativity such a defining part…

Why Zipcar Is Not the “Sharing Economy”

Jan 9, 2013

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cv harquail

in Authentic or Not?, Boost Economy, Communities of Commerce, Members’ connections to Orgs, Organizational Design, Sustainability & Greening

Zipcar isn’t a sharing business, so it can’t create the sharing economy. Who can? Businesses that support customer-to-customer relationships and reciprocal caring.

What Level of Social Business Change Do You Really Want?

Mar 29, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Technology Management

What level of change do you really want from social business? Do you want a little bit, or a whole lot? Do you want process improvement? Or, Do you want organizational transformation? Social technology means organizational change. Social Business and social technologies are indeed bringing changes into your organization. That we know. But what we…

Scale Positive Behaviors by Designing Them Into Social Software

Mar 20, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Generative Orgs, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Why doesn’t every piece of cake come with two forks? There’s no fixed reason why the cake can only come with one fork. But, having only one fork is an obstacle to sharing, even for the most generous of potential dessert-sharers. Why not bring me a second fork, to make it easy for me to…

Extended Organizations: Finding the Boundaries and Naming the Contents

Feb 1, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Members’ connections to Orgs, Organizational Design, Organizational Theory, Research & Science, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Can you help me out with a messy research-related question? What are the best ways to set boundaries around subsets of an “extended organization”, and then give these subsets names so that they are easy to talk about? The problem seems on the surface looks like a question of semantics (i.e., what to call it).…

Is Gamification a Cure for Entitlement?

Oct 19, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Generative Orgs, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Work-Life-Meaning

What value is all this talk about gamification? It’s one thing to deploy game-design tactics to turn your for-profit services (like Foursquare or Hashable) into games. By playing games, folks actually will train themselves to use these products. More troubling to me is the idea of using gamification to redesign work tasks. Gamification and Work…

The “New” Crisis of Meaning?

Oct 4, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Generative Orgs, Members’ connections to Orgs, Organizational Design, Progressive Organizational Movements, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections, Work-Life-Meaning

What’s up with the word “new” in the phrase “meaning is the new motivator”? From all corners of the interwebz conversation about ‘business’, I see mention of this idea that meaning at work is something new, something that we have just begun to desire. Seriously. It seems to come as a surprise, or as a…

How to Design Social Business Systems For Engaged, Social Organizations

Jun 23, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Organizations are social — they always have been. But, organizations have rarely been designed intentionally to help us flourish as social beings while we work together. Neither our analog systems nor our digital systems have been designed to help us bring more of our social selves to our work together. But, it’s not that hard…

5 Ways That Systems of Engagement Bring Out Our Full Social Selves

Jun 22, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Creating Authenticity, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized, Work-Life-Meaning

Technology has a way of sucking the humanity right out of us. Consider how we describe, design and deploy ‘enterprise 2.0’ and work system technologies in our organizations: — When we talk about technology systems, we talk about machines, platforms, inputs and outputs. We forget about values, emotion, flourishing, meaning and purpose. — When we…

Category: Organizational Design