Designing an Adaptive Organization: 2 Key Principles
A highly adaptable organization has a significant competitive advantage in today’s rapidly changing market. Learn two key principles of adaptive organization design.
Agile Organization Design
Navigating Alignment in the “Neutral Zone”
Help employees transition through the neutral zone to a new organization alignment by explaining the hows and whys of the changes.
Preparing for Contingencies in Change Management
There are many interesting parallels between leadership in the military and corporate America. While not everything that works for the military is suited to corporate change management, there are certain military ideas and practices that, when adapted to corporate use, can strengthen and enhance a company’s strategic planning and execution.
Using Agile Ways of Working to Keep Corporate Functions in Alignment
Functions within an organization can often take on an interesting dynamic. While they have immense capacity to influence the customer experience as well as the general welfare of the company, no one chooses to do business with a company based solely on the work or services of a function. Whether
Designing an Adaptive Organization
The world today is experiencing a faster rate of change than ever before. Technological advancement is happening at lightning speed, and this is causing ripple effects throughout organizations, talent, culture, and nearly all aspects of organizational life. As leaders respond to and anticipate in this level of change, they often
How to Structure Your Agile Organization Design Team
To fully benefit from an Agile organization design effort, you need effective teams and means of engaging stakeholders and customers. True to Agile principles, your team should be customer-centric, flexible enough to respond to market changes, and capable of producing design “products” that you can test and implement immediately. But,
Is It Worth the Time to Map Current State Work Processes?
The world is moving fast. Today’s most successful businesses employ agile practices and processes that enable them to keep pace with rapidly changing markets, customer trends, global events and economic shifts. That level of flexibility requires ongoing assessment, analysis and realignment—a willingness to implement work process changes when necessary to
Why Take an Agile Approach to Organization Design?
Agile frameworks are gaining popularity as an alternative to more traditional product development and project management practices. As they rise in popularity and demonstrate increases in productivity and success, many executives are asking themselves how they can use Agile organization design and organizational transformation strategies to improve their businesses. Agile
Designing Your Business Model for Resiliency
In a dynamically changing marketplace, the need to be faster and more agile has become an organizational imperative. Since change is inevitable, an organization’s transformation strategy has to be taken into account when designing a winning business model. As we point out in our book, Mastering the Cube, one of
What Does an Agile Organization Transformation Journey Look Like?
After helping dozens of organizations improve the efficiency, quality, and success of their work processes using an Agile approach, we at AlignOrg Solutions are firmly convinced of the benefits Agile can bring to many companies. However, when we talk about incorporating Agile principles into organization design, we are in no