Organizations around the world are struggling to keep up with accelerating shifts in markets, technology and culture. Those that are succeeding not only have strong products, people, and technology – they also operate in a fundamentally different way. We call this new paradigm responsive because it creates organizations that are able to process change at speed – harnessing it to reveal new ways of organizing and working that are more fit to today’s environment. For over half a century, movements like lean manufacturing, learning organizations, and agile software development have introduced new models for growing organizations. In recent years, systems like Sociocracy and Holacracy have taken center stage, favoring continuous reorganization and distributed authority in the face of constant change. In the meantime, a sense of urgency grows inside today’s legacy organizations. With the average lifespan of firms on the S&P 500 continuing to plummet – from 60 years in 1960, to 15 years today – a critical question emerges. How can we organize to tackle meaningful problems today, at scale – and not break?

1. ORGANIZATIONS BUILT FOR CHANGE
@markraheja

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OUR PURPOSE
A capable team for every meaningful mission.

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BRING AN IDEA
TO LIFE
BRING A PRODUCT
TO SCALE

7. for CEDIM
Source: “Exponential Organizations”, Yuri Van Geest, http://www.slideshare.net/vangeest/exponential-organizations-h

8. EVERYTHING’S AMAZING – AND NOBODY’S HAPPY.

9. for CEDIM
Source: INNOSIGHT, Richard N. Foster, Standard & Poor’s

10. for CEDIM
Source: Gallup “State of the Global Workplace Report”

11. for CEDIM
Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, “The future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerization?” 2013

12. for CEDIM
CORY DOCTOROW
PETER GIBBONS
“Every day, millions of
people wake up and play
a boring RPG called
‘Professionalism.’”
Every day you see me,
that’s the worst day of
my life.”

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14. for CEDIM
The organizing model that most of us know
emerged in xxxx, with _____.

15. @markraheja // // October 2015
SPEED + ADAPTIVITY = ADVANTAGE

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CERTAIN UNCERTAIN

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ORGANIZED TO
EXECUTE
ORGANIZED TO
LEARN
HIRING Conformers, Rule followers
Creative problem solvers,
experimenters
TRAINING Learn before you do Learn from doing
MEASURING
PERFORMANCE
Did you do it right? Did we learn?
ORG
STRUCTURE
Silos & separated expertise
Cross-functional,
integrated expertise
PROCESS
GOALS
Drive out variance
Use variance to adapt
and improve

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IT GOES BY MANY LABELS.
AGILE
LEAN STARTUP
THE B TEAM / B CORP
HOLACRACY
RESPONSIVE ORG
EXPONENTIAL ORG
REINVENTING ORGS
THE 5TH DISCIPLINE
WIREARCHY!

21. BE PURPOSE-DRIVEN

22. GROW NETWORKS

23. DISTRIBUTE AUTHORITY

24. SCALE WHAT WORKS

25. DEFAULT TO OPEN

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1. BE PURPOSE-DRIVEN
2. GROW NETWORKS
3. DISTRIBUTE AUTHORITY
4. SCALE WHAT WORKS
5. DEFAULT TO OPEN
GUIDING PRINCIPLES

28. AUGUST
THANK YOU
team@aug.co@markraheja