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In the face of the emergent age of automation powered by artificial intelligence, organisations will be hard pressed to reconsider their often long-standing operating models while also redefining the role and value-add of their human workforce. This harbours immense opportunity, as holarchic operating models can be devised to finally unlock and leverage the creative power of an emancipated, empowered workforce towards meaningful, relevant value creation and ultimately a sustainable competitive advantage in this new context. The following chapter presents the case study of our organisation—Journey 2 Creation GmbH—which has deployed and evolved a holarchic operating model since its inception. The case will provide practitioner insights, theory and inspiration for the consideration and deployment of a holarchic operating model in other organisations.
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Lesevic, H. (2021). Leveraging the Human Factor through Holarchy: A Case Study. In: Nestle, V., Glauner, P., Plugmann, P. (eds) Creating Innovation Spaces. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57642-4_19
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