A distillation of principles from the literature that describe what the organisation of the tomorrow looks like.

2.  Founder – Building
the Organisation of
the Future (BOOT)
Forum
 Consultant – Business
Transformation
Programs and PPM

3.  Methodology
 Principles from the literature review
 Ideas for further research

4.  Research across a Explains
•Environment and Context
number of
dimensions in order Sets
•Enterprise Logic
to get the full picture
•Strategic Imperatives
 A comparative study Frames
to give context – •Key Capabilities
traditional versus the Determines
organisation of the •Governance, Leadership and Social
Practices
future
Enabled by
•Structure

5. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
A socio-economic era built on the A socio-economic era built on the
technological breakthroughs of technological breakthroughs of
the industrial revolution the ICT revolution (and robotics
and biotech)
The beginnings of globalisation, Unprecedented globalization and
opening up of vast new markets competition, dynamic and volatile
for products and services markets, short product lifecycles
A world of unlimited resources to A world of limited resources to be
be exploited –the New World, conserved and sustained
Africa, India, China and the East
Positivism as the dominant Constructivism as a challenge to
worldview the dominant positivist world view

6. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
A vehicle for achieving personal A vehicle for achieving social as
financial wealth and power well as financial value and
meeting a broad range of
objectives
A narrow set of shareholders – the A broad range of stakeholders –
capitalist project the social enterprise project

7. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
Standardisation and repeatability Differentiation and innovation –
– mass production mass customisation
Size and stability Nimbleness, flexibility and
responsiveness
A relentless focus on cost A relentless focus on investment in
containment, reducing unit costs new products and services
Economies of scale Economies of scope
“Sweating” value from tangible Creating value in intangible assets
assets – property, plant and – knowledge and the social
machinery capital that underpins it

8. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
Strategy formulation Strategy implementation
Operational management Project management
Development and application of The commoditisation of specialist
specialist technical knowledge technical knowledge and the
need to dynamically reconfigure
and apply collaborative
knowledge resources – “dynamic
capabilities” and “absorptive
capacity”
Management Leadership

9. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
Application of command and Application of market economics
control economics principles to principles to internal organisation –
internal organisation – central devolving of power and decision
control of resources and planning making and free flow of resources
Managerialism – practices Leadership – practices embedded
embedded with the strategic with the strategic intent of
intent of command and control empowerment and coordination
Based on rational legalistic Based on principles of community,
principles – sine ira ac studio and renewal practices required to
manage sustainability and success
Centralised leadership Distributed leadership

10. Traditional Organisation Organisation of the Future
Bureaucracy, hierarchy Application of market economics
principles to internal organisation –
devolving of power and decision
making and free flow of resources
Segregation of labour by discipline Leadership – practices embedded
into functional silos with the strategic intent of
empowerment and coordination

11.  Any of the themes reviewed
 3 dangerous ideas
› OOTF as an emergent phenomenon
› The signification of hierarchy with structure –
the “semi-structured organisation”
› Ambidexterity and matrix organisation as
reactionary political expressions