Organization Design in Motion: Designing an Organization for Agility

Saeedeh  Shafiee Kristensen; Mitra Shafiee; Sara Shafiee

doi:10.1017/pds.2021.496

Organization Design in Motion: Designing an Organization for Agility

Saeedeh Shafiee Kristensen, Mitra Shafiee, Sara Shafiee

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Abstract

Increasingly competitive and multifaceted business landscapes and the accelerating pace of innovation require organizations to build in-house capability to evaluate the effectiveness of their design and redesign their organizational structure to drive agile product development. The purpose of this research is to examine how the ability of an organization to implement agile is affected by the organization design. A case study based on 35 semi-structured interviews and field observations at a leading, large-size, Danish software development company was carried out. Adopting the contingency perspective, this paper presents the relevant organizational elements that can increase organizational agility and how the companies can leverage the advantages of the design. Accordingly, it provides a framework that compromises eighteen core organizational practices grouped into four categories (organizational structure and governance, culture and people, IT tools and data infrastructure, and processes) to understand the effect of organization design on agile product development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Design Society
Volume	1
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	2021
Pages	2349 - 2358
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.496
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	23rd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED21) - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 16 Aug 2021 → 20 Aug 2021

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Conference	23rd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED21)
Location	Chalmers University of Technology
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	16/08/2021 → 20/08/2021

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.

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Organizational processes
Communication
Organisation of product development

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