Building organizations that gain from disorder

Presented at Tomorrow 2015
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Transcript

1. @SamiHonkonen Building organizations that gain from disorder
2. new features goal: add new features quickly maintenance goal: keep everything running smoothly “We have to clean up your mess” “You’re preventing us from doing our job”
3. Business Product Development “You’re making us work on the wrong things” “You’re not getting stuff done fast enough”
4. Need for collaboration Management
5. Structure drives behavior Salary Incentives Organizational chart Office locations Workspace design Team structure Company structure Bonuses Processes Policies Tooling and technology Budgeting Roles and responsibilities
6. What are the structures that enable an organization to gain from disorder?
7. Budgeting
8. Budgeting is the process through which corporations spend ridiculous amounts of time and effort compiling semi-random numbers into a spreadsheet they then use for command & control leadership. Definition of budgeting Source: samihonkonen.com/budgeting/
9. Performance bonuses are like homeopathy “There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does” - Daniel Pink
10. How do we maximize our ability to act when an opportunity presents itself?
11. What is the least amount of structure an organization can have without slipping into chaos? When we need structure, how can we make it as lightweight as possible?
12. We invented management. We can reinvent it.
13. 300 people, profitable, growing Reaktor no organizational chart no managers no budgeting no top-down goal setting no performance bonuses no strategy process fluid organizational structures intrinsict motivation continuous improvement experimentation trust and responsibility on-demand leadership get stuff done do stuff together listen
14. Statoil • multinational oil and gas company, 23 000 employees Handelsbanken • banking, 11 000 employees Buurtzorg • elderly care and nursing, 7 000 employees Morning Star • tomato processing, 400-2400 employees FAVI • brass foundry, 500 employees … Plenty of other examples
15. What is the least amount of structure an organization can have without slipping into chaos? When we need structure, how can we make it as lightweight as possible?
16. Can I make a 20 000 € investment in 2 hours?
17. If you’re interested in these topics • Read “Reinventing Organizations” by Fredric Laloux • Join “Systems Thinking Applied Community” on Facebook • Come talk to me and other reaktorians at the API IPA bar
18. Let’s rethink our organizations for tomorrow @SamiHonkonen