What is an organization?

Yes, the world is changing! “The world is changing, so we (the organization) must change too.” How often do you hear directors, managers and their gurus make this statement? But how? How do you change an organization? To answer this one million dollar...

Change the organization, start with yourself

People make the organization. You can take this very literally: through their actions (what they say, what they do) they form the complex patterns of meaning that we call the organization. Therefore, if you want to change the organization, you will have to work with...

Social Design: The approach route for current social issues

The energy transition. The challenges in changing elderly care. The transformation of healthcare in general. The changing role of local governments. You name it. Looking at these issues, three underlying challenges can help ‘how’ to deal with this....

The paradox of the makeable organization

What do we mean by this? Organizational changes often do not get off the ground or they do not achieve the desired goals. We like to manage complex changes. But is this really possible? How an organizational scientist unravels and influences change processes of course...