Organizations face increasingly complex challenges in re-inventing their work – from leveraging the right technology, to designing optimal organizations, to creating the right human experiences. The unprecedented frequency and magnitude of change calls for business agility: constant innovation, re-positioning of the value proposition, alignment of the product and service mix with the market, adoption of new technologies, well-timed strategic investments, and timely development of requisite capabilities. In this age of digital design and transformation, we are often faced with paradoxical challenges that can emphasize technological advancement over alignment of people-centered outcomes. Requisite Agility seeks to discover the tipping point in human-centered organizing to address the challenges of this century.

Now more than ever before the C-Suite (and all of the people who support it) have to take proactive action to ensure the organisation is designed for success.

As organisations grow and adapt to new technologies, there’s a trend towards increased complexity. Networks and ecosystems are replacing the traditional command-and-control structures. Cross-functional and cross-generational integration is critical to efficient, sustained, and disruptive innovation.

How do we deal with change as individuals, as communities and as institutions? What does the future look like? At RA 2019 UnSymposium, we’ll explore these critical questions facing organizations today and discuss the design and development of business ecosystems with the focus on: