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1.  Designing Your Organization to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges.
Amy Kates and Jay Galbraith will be speaking at the 2008 Organization Design Conference sponsored by The Conference Board in New York City. Click here for the brochure.
2. Announcing three public organization design programs. Many clients have asked us to offer public organization design programs. We are pleased to announce three workshops in New York City—one for managers and leaders, and the other for human resource and organization development professionals.
Complex Organization Design: Advanced Practitioner Workshop (February 10–11, 2009). Amy Kates of DKA and Greg Kesler of CHRS will lead a case-based, intensive workshop for experienced internal OD professionals and external consultants. In this session we'll look at how organizations need to change along with business models, what smart companies are doing to reduce costly infrastructure and focus on value in the current economic down draft, and how to make the move into new markets and geographies. For more information, please click here.
Organization Design: An Essential HR Capability (March 10–11, 2009) Amy Kates will lead this two-day workshop that has been especially designed to build capability in internal human resource and organization development practitioners. This program is offered in conjunction with Cornell University. Registration is now available at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/mgmtprog/catalog/HR409.html
Smart Design/Re-Design Strategies for Recessionary Times. (April 1–2, 2009) This two-day workshop for managers and leaders will be co-taught by Amy Kates and Greg Kesler. This program is offered in conjunction with Cornell University. For more information and to register, please go to the Cornell website (www.ilr.cornell.edu/mgmtprog/catalog/HR407.html)
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Downey Kates Associates (DKA) is a recognized leader in helping organizations manage change.
Our work:
- Guides leaders and their teams to make sound choices about the design of their organization
- Develops skills of managers to succeed in complex, global environments
- Builds the capabilities of the human resource organization to support organization effectiveness
 Contact DKA at:
139 Fulton Street
Suite 210
New York, NY 10038
212.349.3522 (phone)
212.349.3015 (fax)
AKates@downeykates.com
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Designing Your Organization is available. Amy Kates and Jay Galbraith’s new book focuses on special applications in organization design including designing around the customer, coordinating across geographic borders, designing a successful matrix, designing for innovation, configuring the corporate center, and solving the dilemmas of centralization and decentralization. The book is published by Jossey-Bass and available for order at 
People & Strategy. Amy Kates has joined the editorial board of People & Strategy journal. Amy will focus on developing content on the topic of building the strategic HR function for this journal, previously known as the Human Resource Planning journal. If you are researching and writing in the area of the development of the HR function please contact Amy at 
Matrix Structures and Virtual Collaboration. Amy Kates' and Paul Erickson's chapter on this topic has been published in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams (Jossey-Bass, 2008). The book can be ordered at 
6. "(Re)Designing the HR Organization" wins Walker Prize. Amy Kates' article on new models for structuring the HR function was awarded the HRPS Walker Prize for outstanding article of 2006. Click 
