🌿🧭🌳 OD11: Bain's Situational Threat Report Index ∙ The Operating System Canvas ∙ The Remote Culture Canvas ∙ Question for Reflection
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Foreword
This week we invite you to discover some tools that could help bring clarity in different areas of the business:
Bain’s Situational Threat Report Index to support decisions around business strategy;
The Operating System Canvas to aid organization design decisions during these times of reinvention;
The Remote Culture Canvas to help evolving the team culture even in a remote setup;
A Question for Reflection that invites each leader to explore their role in creating clarity.
Stay safe, we’re all in this together.
Bain's Situational Threat Report Index
The Macro Trends Group just released an update to their SITREP index, based on quantitative and qualitative information across three classes of data: Scientific/epidemiological, Economic & Social.
“The index is intended to assist business leaders in planning and coordinating a gradient of business-contingency policies in response to a rapidly evolving situation.”
Current level 6: Markets and public in multiple major nations reacting strongly.
We recommend keeping an eye on updates of this index, as they anticipate raising the index to level 7 by early April if the situation continues on its current trajectory.
Level 7 implies recommendations to activate second-level contingency procedures:
“In addition to first-level contingency procedures, focus on separating essential operations and services, high-priority customers/clients, and implementing operational and financial preparations consistent with a 2-to-3-quarter recession.”
See a detailed analysis on Bain’s website by clicking the link below.
The Operating System Canvas
It’s been some time since we discovered the work of The Ready team. Their OS Canvas is an invitation for leadership teams to ask themselves why their organization works the way it does.
The Operating System they refer to is a collection of implicit and explicit constraints that shape how an organization operates. This organizational “DNA” is so pervasive, unquestioned, and deeply held that it’s usually very hard to notice.
Inflection points, as defined by Rita McGrath in “Seeing Around Corners”, offer a good opportunity to explore these underlying assumptions about how the business works. The OS Canvas is a tool to support this exploration.
“Each dimension is a lens that asks you to look at your organization or team and reflect on the following:
What are our principles in this area? What do we believe?
What are our practices in this area? What do we actually do?
Are they serving us? Are our actions and outcomes consistent with our values?”
Check the article linked below for a comprehensive tool walkthrough.
Remote Culture Canvas
The Liberationist team has recently created a simplified version of their Culture Design Canvas that will help you structure the conversation around keeping your team culture strong when everyone is working from home.
Checklist that can be used along with the canvas
“What does your remote team culture stand for? Is it simple and clear?
Does your remote team culture help drive alignment?
How will you promote psychological safety and trust when people are not in the same room?
Is your team embracing flexible working policies so people can adapt to the challenges of working from home?
Has the team agreed on the right tools to collaborate and communicate?”
Get the Remote Culture Canvas and also a tool guide by clicking the link below.
Question for Reflection
The OrgDev newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi, the team behind Sense & Change. We work as Organizational Development Advisors, offering elegant guidance for implementing strategic initiatives in client organizations.
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