How an organisation puts its strategy into practice: the division of work, decisions, roles, processes, systems and management. An operating model describes who does what and who decides what; an organisation chart is only one picture of it.
The number of AI agents is growing fast, but Gartner expects over four in ten agent projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of rising costs and unclear value. Vendors, meanwhile, are sticking the agent label on existing products. The value goes to companies that manage agents as a single programme.
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The European car industry is shedding jobs while shifting towards more highly skilled technical and digital work. CLEPA counts 104,000 announced job losses at suppliers in two years; ACEA and Adecco find that companies approach reskilling reactively and involve HR late.
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Chinese carmakers develop new models 25 to 30 per cent faster than European ones. In 2026, analysts and executives locate the cause mainly in the organisation. At KPMG, slow decisions and governance top the list of internal brakes; at Capgemini, six in ten blame delays on processes.
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Closures in European chemicals have risen sixfold since 2022, and the Netherlands accounts for a fifth of the capacity announced, more than twice its share of turnover. On an integrated cluster, one company's exit hits its neighbours directly. The Dutch government and Chemelot are therefore working with a cluster plan.
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The removal of management layers continues, and AI has become the argument: redesign the work around technology and you need less coordination. Korn Ferry finds that 42 per cent of organisations cut management roles last year; 55 per cent of the managers who remain are exhausted.
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The planned cut to the civil service rises to €3.4bn in 2035 and also affects implementing agencies. The Netherlands Court of Audit finds no choices in the budgets about which tasks will go, while implementation assessments show that new laws almost never save staff.
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