How to Design Better Teams with Professor Phanish Puranam

We are so familiar with the classical, hierarchical organisation chart that it can seem like an inevitable feature of work.

In fact, according to Professor Phanish Puranam, new technology increasingly makes different types of collaboration - and different organisational structures - possible.

In this webinar we will explore the idea of “team design” and argue that all managers as well as running a team need to consider their role as being an organisational designer.

In particular, we will discuss:

• Why current hierarchies may not fit an increasingly diverse workforce
• What it means for managers to become team designers
• How simple interventions – like changing who works near to each other – can radically change organisational dynamics
• How HR systems increasingly provide the rich data needed to understand and potentially prototype different arrangements
• How algorithms could come to be seen as co-workers and how this collaboration might work.

Your questions about Team Design
Before you attend the webinar do watch Professor Puranam talking about his findings on organisational design. Everyone who attends the webinar will have a chance to put their questions about team design to Professor Puranam.

Event timing
18.00 (Singapore), 12.00 (France), 11.00 (UK), 06.00 (New York). Other cities here.

Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD and is the author of The Microstructure of Organizations. Phanish’s research focuses on how organizations work, and how to make them work better. His current interests include non-hierarchical organizations, the design of informal organization, and organizational architectures that support self-assembling teams. Phanish obtained his PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and was on the faculty of London Business School till 2012. Reflecting his commitment to doctoral training, he has served as the Academic Director for the PhD Program at both London Business School and INSEAD.