Thinking

Questions for redesigning work in the age of AI.

Evidence briefs, provocations, case notes and open questions about AI, work redesign and organizational value.

Provocations

Assumptions worth questioning.

Evidence briefs

What credible research supports, challenges or leaves unresolved.

Case notes

What work redesign teaches in practice.

Field questions

Questions that guide further inquiry.

Latest thinking

Featured evidence brief

Who can mobilize the redesign?

A priority workflow needs one person answerable for the outcome and able to mobilize the conditions for a bounded test. The work of redesign still needs to be shared.

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Human Contribution and Work Design

Five questions for deliberate work redesign.

These briefs follow the decisions organizations face when moving from distributed AI use to deliberate work redesign and measurable value.

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Priority Where should we focus?
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Suitability How should contribution be allocated?
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Development What capability must the work create?
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Durability What will make the design hold?

Field questions

What remains unresolved.

01Where is AI use already changing shared workflows without explicit redesign?
02What evidence would show that a local productivity gain improved an end-to-end outcome?
03What organizational conditions cause redesigned work to revert under pressure?
04What would disconfirm the assumption that a proposed redesign creates value?