---
id: "action-modular-org-design"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Optimizing for the Unknown"]
tags: ["organizational-design", "hr"]
related: ["framework-optimizing-unknown", "entity-block"]
speakers: ["Toby E. Stuart"]
action: "Restructure into modular teams with flexible job designs and thin coordination layers."
outcome: "Maintains organizational agility to rapidly integrate agentic AI and adapt to shifting operating models."
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-72-future-ai-fog"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/the-future-is-shrouded-in-an-ai-fog"
sourceTitle: "The Future Is Shrouded in an AI Fog"
---
# Design Modular Organizations for Agentic AI

**Action:** Stop locking in structures optimized for a stable future. Prepare for **agentic AI** with **modular teams**, **frequent process changes**, **flexible job designs**, and **thin, adaptable layers of coordination** (human or AI).

**Outcome:** Maintains organizational agility to rapidly integrate agentic AI and adapt to shifting operating models — the kind of shift foreshadowed by [[entity-block|Block]]'s reported ~40% restructuring under [[entity-jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]].

Pillar 2 of the [[framework-optimizing-unknown|Corporate Optionality Framework]]. Aligns with **dynamic capabilities** (sense–seize–transform). Note the lag flagged in [[quote-repricing-vs-restructuring]]: restructuring is far harder than repricing, so start early.


## Related across articles
- [[concept-agentic-ai-systems]]
- [[concept-duration-of-the-company]]