Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

EJ Marin is the Director of Solutions Engineering at Nakisa. His role is to see customer challenges from different angles, identify patterns, and engineer solutions for the HR function for HR professionals. He chats with Tom Fox about the changing face of HR in this week’s show. Organizational Design and Transformation Tom asks EJ to define organizational design. EJ shares the traditional definition of organizational design, and contrasts this with his take on what it means. “Right now,” he remarks, “organizational design is more about agility [and] resilience, due to COVID and everything that’s happening… Now it’s all about adapting to the next normal: not to the new normal, but to the next things that are coming… It’s all about analyzing the organization and making sure that at the end of the day you’re adapting to the situation as fast as possible.”  Skills and capabilities that were optional before COVID, EJ points out, are essential to a company’s survival today. “Transformation needs to become a routi