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AI and Organizational Restructuring: Redesign the Work Before Cutting Jobs
AI exposes the layers, hand-offs and busy work inside a company. Stephen Forte explains why leaders should redesign the work before cutting jobs or flattening the organization.
In this episode:
Three restructuring announcements. NiCE, Canva and SUSE named AI among their reasons for change, alongside other business pressures. These are not simply AI layoffs.
Readiness exposes waste. Preparing for AI reveals weak data, inappropriate access and the hand-offs between a request and a result.
Double clutter. Email and Excel create work on both sides of a request. Count the relays before changing…
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