Create Better Workflows with Dynamic Work Design

You're reading Create Better Workflows with Dynamic Work Design, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. An executive's most important task is to understand and monitor the processes by which their business operates. Errors and setbacks in the chain of production can happen in any system, whether in physical production (factory setting) or intellectual workspaces. Without suggestions for improvement, small problems in a workflow can turn into significant risk factors for a company's bottom line. Here's where dynamic work design comes in. Corporate structures were traditionally built around a static system. This setup can lead to bottlenecking within projects. Unaddressed, a bottleneck stops the progression of work, has a ripple effect on employee's tasks and accumulates wasted time and effort. Traditional chains of communication, which flow from CEO's to directors, managers, team leaders, and eventually workers, can make problem solving extremely sluggish. These hierarchies can stifle communications, creativity, and collaboration, and reduce efficiency.  So how can these systems be reassessed to reduce red tape and optimize function from the highest rung of the ladder to the lowest? I came across some heavy research performed by MIT Sloan Business Faculty Director Nelson Repenning and Senior Lecturer Donald Kieffer not long ago. They propose a sys...
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