STRATEGIC ORG DESIGN
Org Topologies™ (OT) is the first human-centric plus AI-friendly organizational change approach.
Org Topologies prepares organizations for the future by getting change going today.
Org Topologies elevates organizations to be fit for purpose and is wide open: it applies to Farms and Pharma. Software and Services. Consulting and Construction.
This is the new world of strategic org design.
Learn more:
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Read the Management Summary.
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Download the Pitch with References.
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Get the Primer below.
GET THE PRIMER
Org Topologies™ Primer is a free, comprehensive summary of the Org Topologies™ method to help you map, assess, design, and elevate your organizational ecosystem with a strategic org design approach:
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Two dimensions of org design
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Four organizational characteristics
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Sixteen archetypes within four groups
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Three distinctive organizational topologies
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Change MADE Real method
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Strategic AI adoption
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Org Topologies help leaders drive organizational performance by aligning org design to business objectives:
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Org design can help or hinder a business objective (e.g. market share, profit, etc.)
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Different org designs can serve different org goals (e.g. adaptiveness, flow, etc.)
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Leaders can and should deliberately design an organization to be fit for purpose: the org goal (e.g. adaptive) should align with and influence the business objective (e.g. profit).
This is strategic org design in which every organizational element—from structures to career paths to policies to processes—is intentionally decided and aligned so that each part reinforces the others to be fit for purpose (e.g. “the org goal is high adaptiveness to support profit growth”).
Org Topologies Mapping
Org Topologies introduces this simple but powerful language to clarify organizational development without resorting to “agile” or other framework-specific jargon. This makes it easier to see things as they are, bringing together specialists from different backgrounds and facilitating open, unambiguous discussions about the current situation and the next steps.
The Org Topologies map is a visual thinking tool to guide the redesign of organizations, easy for many to use. And the related change method MADE unfolds in four distinct steps: Map, Assess, Design, and Elevate.
Elevating Katas™: Systemic Org Change
The Elevating Katas are a set of practices and principles that can be applied as thoughtful experiments to change the organizational structure, processes, policies, and so forth. We are working toward a collection of Elevating Katas that can be applied to get change going, helping to improve any organization in the thoughtful direction of any topology.
Benefits of Org Topologies
Org. development I Executive coaching | Certified Org Topologies Partner
"Since 2022, I’ve experienced great value from using Org Topologies™ (OT) with clients in different organizational development contexts. One of the most compelling reasons is that it gave us a way to communicate observations, experiences, ideas, and potential change initiatives that were otherwise hard to explain consistently.
In terms of how the different players in the organizations interacted, OT provided a way to map that out. It made otherwise “invisible” patterns, such as inefficient mandates and misaligned incentives, clear and discussable.
It shifted the focus from consultant-led advice to client-owned reasoning. This empowered the organizations to take greater ownership of both problem understanding and experimentation with design improvements."
Agile and Product Coach
"It was so much easier to describe the FlixBus agile journey using Org Topologies™, which otherwise would need much more explanation and reasoning. Mapping product depth and team skills dimensions bridges the gap between applying frameworks and discovering ways to organize teams. Thank you for the elegant system to visualize organizational growth."
