Rupert Morrison

Founder and Deputy Chair of Orgvue, Orgvue

Rupert Morrison is the founding pioneer behind Orgvue, the leading organizational design and planning platform, which has won numerous accolades including Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendor’ in human capital management software. Rupert’s aim is to help businesses realize their goals through data and analytics. With over 20+ years of experience in consulting, and 17 years in developing software, he blends a deep understanding of board level business issues with new data driven methodologies to give real and sustainable business impact. Rupert is the author of the industry's foremost thought-leading books, considered to be essential 'must reads' for all org design and workforce planning professionals: "Data-driven Organization Design" (now in it's second edition) and "Organizational Planning and Analysis".

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Article Designing the future of work in the age of digital revolution and automation
Building new skills for the future of work
Article What is and why have an accountability matrix?
An accountability matrix defines the responsibilities that each role or person has for a given set of things. Learn why this is important.
Article Process mapping: understand what your organization really does
If we want to map what the organization does, how do you get your head around the whole and why is it frequently called “Process Mapping”?
Article How HR, Finance and Strategy need to evolve for organizational design of the future
5 key warning signs that people data is not well handled:
Article Why will graph databases change?
Why graphing databases are critical to understand business and why they are changing the data landscape.
Article Why is there no economic theory of organizational design?
An article on the real-world practice of organizational design in the context of academic economic theory.
Article What is big data and what is people data?
What is the difference between ‘big data’ and ‘people data’? And how does understanding this lead to visualization of organizational design data?
Article The key challenge in organizational design isn’t big data, it’s people data
Article by Rupert Morrison
Article What is the overlap and difference between workforce planning and micro design?
What's the difference, and why bother with the distinction?
Article Span of control: what is the optimum and what are the drivers?
A framework for thinking through an ideal span of control