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.
What credible research supports, challenges or leaves unresolved.
What work redesign teaches in practice.
Questions that guide further inquiry.
Latest thinking
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.
Read Brief 02Human 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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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?