Making strategy about structure and meaning.
In C21st Orgs, job titles and fixed role descriptions won't exist in the same way because most people will execute various roles in their own particular combination. Workload and preferences will allo...
This question assumes the problems related to less popular tasks that exist within the status quo will be present within the new model. However, as C21st organisations are redesigned around trust and ...
The Status Quo 21st Century Orgs Purpose is static and unchanging. Purpose likely to be evolutionary and may change over time. Purpose has probably barely been thought about until recently and, if it ...
Making money is not the primary reason for a business to exist or be sustained. It is a natural part of the landscape for an enterprise, but it should dominate neither its sense of purpose nor its def...
Sense-and-respond is the alternative model to the one that dominates the status quo: predict-and-control (see: What is predict-and-control?). Essentially the idea is that we can absorb a range of data...
A self-managing business model is not structureless; it does still adopt a guiding form. In his landmark study, Reinventing Organisations, Frederick Laloux describes three “Archetypes of Structure” th...
If our organisations are going to survive and prosper in this new era of exponential change then we need to address the way they’re organised and managed. To do this our primary task, particularly at ...
21st Century Orgs take a very different view of resources than the status quo. What they are and how they should be sourced and valued is reconsidered. Here we identify how across key resource areas: ...
The Status Quo 21st Century Orgs Strategic direction is rigidly planned. Strategic direction is potentially structured but predominantly emergent (i.e. emerges over time and from all over the organisa...
“Creativity” and “Innovation” are frequently used as interchangeable terms. But they are not the same thing. Creativity is about coming up with ideas. Innovation is the process that exists between ide...