---
id: "action-redesign-org-chart"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Redesign your organization."]
tags: ["organizational-design", "future-planning"]
related: ["entity-capital-one", "question-ai-first-org-structure", "concept-time-savings-evaporation", "concept-no-regrets-zone"]
action: "Draft a future-state organizational chart that accounts for AI eliminating low-stakes explicit tasks and altering middle management."
outcome: "An agile organizational structure capable of creating rapid feedback loops between AI insights and market action."
speakers: ["Bharat N. Anand", "Andy Wu"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/11/the-gen-ai-playbook-for-organizations"
source_title: "The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations"
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-cl-87-genai-playbook-orgs"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/11/the-gen-ai-playbook-for-organizations"
sourceTitle: "The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations"
---
# Redesign the org chart around an AI-first vision

**Action.** Draft a future-state org chart that accounts for AI eliminating low-stakes explicit tasks and altering middle management.

**Why.** Start planning an AI-first organizational structure **today**. AI will eliminate some roles entirely — mostly in the [[concept-no-regrets-zone|No Regrets quadrant]] — and alter others. Middle managers may shift from *supervising humans who work with software* to *working directly with software themselves*. Functional employees may need to become **cross-functional** to support continuous learning loops. The historical template is [[entity-capital-one-d87|Capital One's]] fusion of marketing, risk, and IT to run thousands of micro-experiments. Layering AI onto existing workflows is insufficient — without redesign, value is lost to organizational bottlenecks and [[concept-time-savings-evaporation|time-savings evaporation]].

**Outcome.** An agile structure capable of creating rapid feedback loops between AI insight and market action. **Still abstract:** the precise topology of such an org chart is an [[question-ai-first-org-structure|open question]].


## Related across articles
- [[concept-agent-first-rewiring]]
- [[framework-three-responses]]
- [[action-shift-ownership-to-lob]]