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When AI Lowers Workflow Barriers: How to Redivide Functional Lines and Business Lines

A position paper: functional lines were efficient in an era of highly specialized work; once tools lower skill barriers, organizations should be redesigned around end-to-end business capability. It provides the mechanism, a spectrum of organizational forms, judgment signals, the two Chinese and American starting points, talent needs, and a falsifiable pilot protocol.

LiyukLiyukPublished August 14, 2026
  • #Organization Design
  • #AI
  • #Engineering
  • #Functional Teams
  • #Business Lines
  • #Work & Leadership
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