Org Topologies™
Thoughtful organizational development
Design, assess and sustain business-oriented R&D for maximizing organizational agility, innovation, and resilience.
Erik, Engineering Director
"Are fast-flow teams enough for an efficient organization?"
Erik, the engineering director, is interested in creating a fast, modern R&D.
And now, as the majority of Erik's teams are mastering fast flow, he has started to wonder what the true north for his R&D is. Erik has observed that even though all the teams are working at full speed and doing their best, it is still challenging to deliver what truly matters from the business and customer viewpoint.
His recent insight: there is more to creating an efficient organization than creating autonomous fast-flow teams.
But how to capture today's successes and move on without losing the flow and hitting the limits of people's cognitive load?
"Do we need another reorganization to become a modern workplace?"
Hanna, the Head of HR, believes that her mission is to help the company maximize its human potential and create a great place to work.
The efforts in the recent organizational change initiatives paved the way to become more resilient in the ever-changing business landscape. However, Hanna has realized that her organization has spent a tremendous amount of effort to sustain its performance, and it will struggle to live up to the constant flow of unforeseen challenges.
Her recent insights: there must be a better way to get the organization in shape to keep delivering on the strategic initiatives without the need for constant reorganizations.
But how to balance sustaining a safe and reliable workplace with the constant need for change?
Hanna, Head of HR
A framework-agnostic visual approach to define the direction of organizational transformations for digital product development and beyond.
Why Org Topologies™?
Some say: "Agile is dead!" Is it? Or has it been downgraded to mean team-level agility?
Today’s solutions create tomorrow’s problems. By focusing on team-level agility, organizations have created the need for scaling. Scaling is a problem. It is not a solution. It is a self-inflicted issue caused by a lack of system thinking.
Others say: "Business agility is the new path!" But is there "another agility"? Hasn't agility always been for the benefit of everyone: developers, customers, and managers? For the whole business? The fact that we need something like business agility is a symptom of failure.
At Org Topologies™, we don’t believe that agile is dead or that business agility is the new focus.
We believe there is a need to revive the agile revolution: Ride the second wave! We shall focus on both in-team and inter-team collaboration, independence of the individual teams, and interdependence of them working together.
We need to embrace value-creating ecosystems by looking from the outside in, organizing around value, and creating strong cohesion with teams of teams.
Org Topologies™ is a thinking tool that makes it easier to see where your organization is on the transformation journey. And from there, discuss where you want to be. This helps organizations discover, own and monitor their journey toward perfection without relying on "agile" frameworks.
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