The writing is on the wall: the way organisations learn currently is under the microscope, some feel it’s broken and there’s a need to fix it.  The signs have been there for some time – the massive changes that have swept through organisations over the past few decades have brought major disruption to just about every aspect of business.

The way Organisational Development (OD) is initiated and deployed for any organisation is changing, and much of this evolution is down to the growing influence of human-centred design.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that people need to be at the centre of organisational development, but up until recently the model has been more driven by those in senior management rather than the employees themselves.

Sounds a bit political but it’s not – the opinion we are putting forward is that we will need to change the way we think about the future.

For decades, if not centuries, our organisational thought process has been dominated by left brain strengths, those that are logical, sequential, rational, analytical and objective in nature.