Eric Yim is an organization design strategist specializing in human-AI work partnership. He has spent 25 years working between organizational diagnosis and redesign, and works at the intersection of organizational development and AI adoption in the workplace.

What is human-AI work partnership?

Human-AI work partnership is the deliberate design of how people and machines share work at the task level. Rather than asking which jobs AI replaces, it asks which tasks move to the machine, which stay human, and what that reassignment does to roles, spans, decision rights and the operating model.

What does an organization design strategist do?

An organization design strategist aligns an organization’s structure and accountabilities, people and skills, process and systems, and mindset and behaviors so it can execute its strategy. The work spans diagnosis, operating model design, and the change activation needed to make a new design real.

How does AI change organization design?

AI redesigns the work, not the chart. The unit of analysis descends from the org chart to the task, each task is placed on a ladder from manual to reinvention, and any machine judgement is gated by a human before it reaches a decision-maker. Structure follows work — and the work is now shared with machines.

What is Eric Yim’s background?

Eric Yim graduated from Nanyang Technological University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Business specializing in financial analysis, and began his career in corporate banking at Mizuho. He moved into organizational development through the Civil Service College, then held organization development and effectiveness roles at L’Oréal, Shell and Cargill before becoming Global Head of OD and Talent at SATS Ltd.

Where does Eric Yim work?

Eric Yim is Global Head of OD and Talent at SATS Ltd. in Singapore, which he joined in December 2024. He previously spent over nine years at Shell in global and regional organizational development leadership roles, and four years at Cargill in organization effectiveness consulting.

Why does Eric Yim say AI is a multiplier and not a shortcut?

Because a multiplier amplifies whatever expertise already exists — and zero multiplied by any number is still zero. AI is most valuable to people with deep domain expertise to amplify, not to those merely quickest to adopt the tools. The discipline is discerning the right time and place to use AI.

Eric Yim — Organization Design Strategist

Eric Yim — Organization Design Strategist Eric Yim is an organization design strategist specializing in human-AI work partnership — designing how organizations divide work between people and machines, and the structures, capabilities and behaviors that make that partnership work. Global Head of OD and Talent at SATS Ltd., Singapore. 25 years in organizational development across Shell, Cargill and the Singapore public sector. Profiles and coverage

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