Mayvin associate Dr Richard Hale has collaborated with Professor Dave Ulrich on the publication of the article How Leaders Lead Post-Pandemic
Organisation Design
Carolyn Norgate joins Mayvin on secondment from the UK Civil Service
We are delighted to announce that Carolyn Norgate has joined the Mayvin Team as Principal Consultant, on a one-year secondment from the UK Civil Service Organisation Development and Design Specialist Partnering function. The stars were aligned so that Carolyn has been able to come onboard at a time when Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser is preparing to …
Block Value: Dr Naomi Stanford shares her thoughts on reflective learning
Dr Naomi Stanford, organisation design practitioner, teacher, and author, shares her thoughts on reflective learning following our latest Mayvin Community event ‘The Development Trap’: How can you learn when there is no time for learning? At the event, we explored how a ‘just in time’ leadership model can enable people to adapt and learn close …
Re-imagining organisations: An alternative perspective on Organisation Development and Organisation Design
Tony Nicholls, Mayvin Principal Consultant, demonstrates how the way in which we see organisations and our field of practice as ‘things’ can constrain our thinking and effectiveness as practitioners. As part of our emerging thinking on where Organisation Development meets Organisation Design, I previously wrote about how “curiosity, reflection and systems thinking could be the spaces …
Organisation Development meets Organisation Design: an ongoing inquiry
At Mayvin, we have been wrestling with the question of how Organisation Development meets Organisation Design in the real world of complex client systems. This blog adds to the conversation by bringing together two lines of inquiry articulated in previous posts. Claire Wightman offered an excellent summary of Organisation Development meets Organisation Design by describing how …
Designing to Dream: a perspective on Organisation Design
Mayvin Associate Consultant Peter Lawrence uses the lens of poetry and metaphor to reflect on an important, often forgotten, business reason to embark on an Organisation Design process: releasing potential. The Seed Shop by Muriel Stewart Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as …
Where Organisation Design meets Organisation Development
A year ago, Claire Wightman started a new role in the Civil Service Expert Organisation Development and Design team. During this time she has been reflecting on what it means to be an Organisation Development and Organisation Design Practitioner. To what extent are the two fields integrated? Is there an ideal blend of skills? Here, …
Organisation Design: do what you can and know when to stop
Mayvin Associate Geoff Roberts describes his experience of working with the complexity of large scale Organisation Design projects. When I read Sarah Fraser’s blog on Organisation Design, ‘The map must be wrong’, I was reminded of one of my own experiences navigating the complex territory of large scale organisational change. An experience that reinforced one …
Organisation Design: the map must be wrong!
What can we do when our organisation design map no longer reflects the reality of the now, nor the intentions of the future? Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser explores how to navigate the shifting sands of the organisational landscape. I am facilitating a real time evaluation of a global operating model design process. In partnership with the client, we …
Pay now or pay later with interest
How including informal systems in an organisation design project is the key to long term success A few months ago I argued for consulting beyond the usual suspects when it comes to Organisation Design work. This time I’m encouraging broadening the scope of the design project to the ‘informal system’. When thinking about Organisation …
Living and breathing organisation design
Mayvin associate Peter Lawrence on the fertile territory between a full blown restructure and organisational apathy “I am not sure what the problem is, but a restructure may help” That is the statement that often greets me during the first client conversation. For whatever reason, the need to restructure has emerged and now I …
2017 A Good, Messy Complex Year
How uncertainty is an opportunity for more flexible and honest Organisation Development and Design I started my year in an excellent way. I started it in a way that supports my counter rational sense that 2017 is going to be a good year. All around me, people seem to be filled with a sense …
Organisation Design: Spread the net wide
Why it helps to go beyond the usual suspects in Organisation Design In the late 1990s as part of my MBA I visited a manufacturing plant in Eastern Europe that built cars for a global automotive brand. The plant was low-tech by the standards of the time, and I learned that although the particular model …
Organisation Design: how to get real transformation to happen
Last week we welcomed colleagues, clients and friends to our latest Mayvin Community event: ‘Organisation Design – people matter!’ We inquired together about how to push the boundaries of Organisation Design to make it a truly people change experience. We all shared our thinking about Organisation Design in response to the following questions: What are the main …
Organisation Design pros and cons
At Mayvin, we’ve been exploring the reasons for and against Organisation Design. An Organisation Development consultant colleague of mine likes to tell the following story. It helps to illustrate the pros and cons of organisation design. Back when I had a ‘proper job’, I ended up redesigning a department following the arrival of a dynamic, …
Organisation Design: people matter!
With the summer nearly over, we’re getting ready for our next Mayvin Community event: Organisation Design: people matter! Organisation Design is a complex people process. At Mayvin, we blend our deep experience of Organisation Development and change with the essential steps of effective Organisation Design. We know that when it comes to Organisation Design: people matter. At the event, we’ll …
Corporate re-brandings and being real
Mayvin Director Martin Saville shares his thoughts on corporate rebrandings. Two very different news stories have caught my eye recently. The first one concerns the very sad case of Nazanin Ratcliffe, a woman with dual Iranian / British nationality married to a British man. While visiting her family in Iran she was detained by the …