🌿🧭🌳 OD98: Collaborative Enterprise Design
Curated resources on: Strategy ∙ Org Design ∙ Org Development ∙ Adjacent fields
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1 of 6 / Bain: The 5 roles of a Chief Transformation Officer
In a nutshell: strategic architect, integrator, operator, coach, and controller.
Quick take: Through analogy, these roles can be relevant to anyone who is leading initiatives in their organization.
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2 of 6 / Harvard Business School: Every Company Should Have These Leaders - or Develop Them if They Don't
In a nutshell: Hise Gibson, sr. lecturer at HBS, introduces 2 distinctions regarding T-shaped leaders - Big T Leaders (BTL) and little T leaders (LTL), along with the message that leadership development needs to be adjusted for the 4 variations needed by organizations: BTL specialists, BTL generalists, LTL specialists and LTL generalists.
Quick take: Could be useful for designing leadership development that is better fit for more specific needs.
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3 of 6 / Association of Professional Futurists: Dear Professional Futurists and Strategy Advisors - have you considered your Professional Liability?
In a nutshell: Samista Jugwanth invites to reflection about professional liability, as the foresight profession continues to mature.
Quote: ”(…) as the uses for strategic foresight expand, the closer it gets to being linked to the influence on tangible outcomes – where the risk of damages also becomes tangible, linkable, and quantifiable.”
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4 of 6 / Via LinkedIn: What is your core function?
In a nutshell: Citing Nick Forrest, Adam Thompson argues that having clarity about the core function in your organization is an important choice based on your strategy and the business you’re in.
Quick take: Excellent exercise for executive teams.
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5 of 6 / MIT Sloan Management Review: Manage Your Workforce Ecosystem, Not Just Your Employees
In a nutshell: Extended workforces are all of the people and groups involved in achieving the company’s business objectives, not only the company’s employees.
Quick take: This concept goes along the fluid workforce trend and invites leadership teams to level up their people leadership practices, even beyond the organizational boundaries.
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6 of 6 / Gartner: Survey Signals Pause-and-Pivot Year for CEOs
In a nutshell: The 2023 Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey shows that the top 3 business priorities for CEOs are: 1. Growth; 2. Tech and Automation; 3. Workforce.
Quick take: Strategy and Organization practices are key for all three.
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EDGY: A language for collaborative Enterprise Design
We’re excited to share that the Intersection Group has recently published its open source visual language for Enterprise Design.
Introducing a simple but powerful language everybody can understand and relate to, EDGY enables designers, architects and change makers to co-design a coherent enterprise by identifying the most impactful perspectives and translating between them.
Well-defined, reusable Enterprise Elements turn a complex enterprise into a set of interconnected parts, ready to be designed, mapped and transformed.
One page summary: Enterprise Design with EDGY
Open source wiki for details: Enterprise.Design
Join the launch event on June 19th, 9am CEST. Register here.
Dessert
1 of 2 / Via Substack: David Spinks shares 11 ideas about community building.
2 of 2 / The Point Magazine: Philosopher Agnes Callard explores the act of offering advice.
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Bon appétit!
Curated by knowledge chefs Raluca and Bülent Duagi.
As the Sense & Change team, we’re working with Directors in 🇷🇴 Tech companies to make more impact with the limited resources they have at hand, by:
🧭 having a clear strategy that enables better and faster decision making;
🤝 organizing better to both run operations and implement strategy with the available bandwidth and budgets;
🚀 implementing strategic initiatives and programs in an efficient and effective manner, paying attention to the people side of change;
⚡️ intentionally developing proper internal capabilities that are sustainable in the long run.
We've been recently advising, mentoring and training leaders from:
· Adobe, DB Global Technology, Deloitte Digital, HP, IT Smart Systems, Orange, Orange Services, OTP Bank, Servier, Stockday and TotalSoft.
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