Reorgs Happen

Slides from NYC CTO Summit, Fall 2015

Transcript

1. Reorgs Happen
   Dealing Elegantly with Organizational Change!
   !
   Camille Fournier @skamille
   

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2. Reorgs
   

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3. In less than 4 years, I
   experienced* 3 significant
   reorgs!
   *survived!
   

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4. Successful Companies
   Change As Needed!
   

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5. As a Leader, How Can You Deal?
   

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6. http://intenseminimalism.com/2015/a-framework-for-thinking-about-systems-change/!
   

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7. Vision: Why Are
   We Doing This?!
   Lacking Vision, we have
   CONFUSION
   

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8. Skills: Do We Know How To
   Do What Needs To Be Done?!
   Without Skills, You have Anxiety
   

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9. Incentives: Why
   Should People
   Play Along?!
   Without Incentives, you get
   Resistance
   

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10. Resources: Do we have the time, energy,
    people to make this work?!
    Without Resources, we have Frustration
    

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11. Action Plan: How will we go about doing
    this?!
    Without an Action Plan, we have False Starts
    

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12. http://intenseminimalism.com/2015/a-framework-for-thinking-about-systems-change/!
    

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13. YOUR ROLE
    

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14. Understand and focus
    the Vision
    

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15. Communicate the vision
    to your organization!
    

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16. Advocate for the
    needs of your team!
    

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17. Push Back on
    unrealistic expectations!
    

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18. Create a Plan with
    Realistic Goals
    

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19. Let Go
    

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20. Case Study 1:
    The Straightforward and Simple!
    

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21. Why are we doing
    this?!
    Element: Vision
    

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22. Causes for Reorg
     
    Ineffective communication structures!
     
    Removing a product or focus area!
     
    Adding a new product or focus area!
     
    Change in team size or makeup!
    

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23. Clear
    Communication
    Solves Many
    Evils!!
    Even when they’re on board,
    explaining the goals is key !
    !
    It is your job as the leadership to run
    this communication, having it trickle-
    down through management is usually
    a fail !
    It Is
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    Element: Skills
    

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24. Case Study 2:
    A business-wide focus!
    

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25. Advocate for your Team
    Make sure they have leadership roles and growth opportunities!
    Element: Incentives
    

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26. Set reasonable expectations based on
    capacity!
    If you don’t have enough people for a team, say so!
    Element: Resources
    

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27. Case Study 3:
    The never-ending planning!
    

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28. A good plan
    requires setting
    clear goals
    Teams given the same goal will have
    turf wars
    Element: Action Plan
    

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30. Let Go
    The only constant is change
    

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31. You don’t have to do this alone
    

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32. Vision + Skills + Incentives
    + Resources + Action Plan =
    SUCCESS!
    

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33. Plus ça change, plus
    c’est la même chose!
    

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34. Thanks! @skamille
    

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