🌿🧭🌳 OD05: Change impact mapping examples, Efficient collaboration, Dimensions of business agility and OrgTech
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1. Change impact mapping examples
As we promised last week, you can find below some examples of possible impact of organizational initiatives like:
adopting a new CRM system;
moving the company to a new building;
developing customer centricity in Product Development teams;
improving collaboration between the Marketing and Sales teams;
simplifying the expense reporting process;
automating a simple quarterly report;
redesigning the employee onboarding experience;
Agile transformation of the whole organization.
Practical ideas
If you’re leading or contributing to an organizational initiative, use the change impact template and examples as inspiration for aligning with your team about the impact of your initiative.
Did the exercise uncover impact areas that you weren’t aware of?
Based on these insights, do you need to adapt the approach and/or the resources allocated for your initiative?
Do you need to involve new contributors?
Example of a complex initiative, based on the impact mapping.
Efficient collaboration
We’ve found an intriguing self-assessment tool that promises to give ideas on how to reduce collaborative overload and foster more efficient collaboration.
The ConnectedCommons team defines collaborative overload by sharing that most knowledge workers or leaders now spend 85% or more of their work time on email, in meetings and on the phone.
Based on their research, they found specific practices of efficient collaborators that gain back ±20% of time dedicated to collaborative activities (and many other insights, we recommend going through all the linked document).
Alternatively, here’s a short video that summarizes the key messages:
Practical ideas
Many organizations aim to improve cross-functional collaboration and one key aspect of this is enabling people to become more efficient collaborators.
As a first step, you can take the self-assessment below to see how you score across the 3 areas (impose structure, challenge beliefs, alter behaviors) and the associated 25 good practices. For each area you will find insights in the report about your greatest strength and biggest opportunity to improve.
If you find the tool useful, share it with your colleagues and explore together how you can become more efficient at collaboration as a team.
Dimensions of business agility
When you say that you want to increase agility in your company, what’s the type of agility that you are referring to?
OrgTech
A more advanced topic for this newsletter edition is the emergence of tech that (1) provides better tools for designing and implementing organizational initiatives and (2) digitizes the very nature of organizations.
For practical reasons - our focus for the moment is on the (1) area of OrgTech, while keeping an eye on the developments in the (2) area.
There are a handful of dedicated tools that cover different aspects of org. initiatives, from planning and creating roadmaps, tracking adoption & engagement, to identifying and co-opting supporters and influencers from the organization for increasing the success chances of the initiative.
We’ve created a one-pager showcasing some tools that we’ve discovered so far. If you have used some other dedicated digital tools to support your initiatives, we’d love to hear from you!
The OrgDev newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi, the team behind Sense & Change. We work as Organizational Development Advisors, helping organizations develop by learning faster what they need and what works for them.
Do you have ideas or tools that could help leaders develop their organizations?