🌿🧭🌳 OD59: Team Topologies ∙ The Coherence Test ∙ Future of Strategic Decision-Making
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Team Topologies
As an org design practice that’s coming from the software world, Team Topologies looks at a Tech organization and names the different types of teams and their interactions:
Stream-aligned team: aligned to a flow of work from (usually) a segment of the business domain
Enabling team: helps a Stream-aligned team to overcome obstacles. Also detects missing capabilities.
Complicated Subsystem team: where significant mathematics, calculation or technical expertise is needed.
Platform team: a grouping of other team types that provide a compelling internal product to accelerate delivery by Stream-aligned teams
5 min explainer video about the 4 team types:
The Coherence Test
Useful exercise created by Strategy& for leadership teams that are wondering:
What’s the level of our organization’s coherence, both from a strategic and from an operational perspective?
#reflect
Can you draw what your company does?
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Future of Strategic Decision-Making
Intriguing article published in the Journal of Futures Studies, claiming that AI has an increasing role in strategic decision-making.
Through machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic decision-making are improving rapidly, while human capacities in this area may not necessarily be progressing.
It could even be the opposite: while machines are deemed by many to augment humans in a positive way, the Pew Research Center cautions that AI could reduce individuals’ cognitive, social and survival skills: “People’s deepening dependence on machine-driven networks will erode their abilities to think for themselves [and]take action independent of automated systems” (Anderson, Cohn, & Rainie, 2018).
#practical_guides
New version: Guide to Team Chemistry
We’ve added two practical examples from teams that have used the Team Chemistry framework during their team meetings.
Other Sense & Change guides that might be useful:
Guide to Information Overload. Curator’s Edition (paid)
Guide to Dynamic Stakeholder Mapping (paid)
Guide to Personal Strategy Sprint (free) + two practical examples
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