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Growing Adaptive Organizations - How to explain the approach
The document outlines a platform designed to aid the development of adaptive organizations in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world by guiding users through various stages of knowledge acquisition, from beginner to expert. It emphasizes a learning journey that includes structured support and iterative processes, along with transformation patterns that foster effective collaboration and leadership commitment. The approach promotes a common understanding of values and principles, encouraging experimentation and adaptation to enhance organizational efficiency and resilience.
Growing Adaptive Organizations - How to explain the approach
- 1. Growing Adaptive Organizations Resilience| Learning | Efficiency for a VUCA world Organisationen für Menschen Growing Conceptual Understanding
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- 3. The platform wantsto provide new methods to access the question of Designing adaptive organizations. Because there are different ways you access new concepts: If you are new to the subject, you want guidance and maybe rules When you gain practice, your way will become increasingly self-guided and you may want help in discovering and structuring new knowledge Once you master a subject, you want opportunities to exchange experiences and knowledge with peers Our platform aims to help you along this journey. How do you acquire and access knowledge
- 4. Start Smart • TheMap Metaphor • Story Telling Dive Deeper • The Travel Guide Metaphor • Playbooks Look for Support • Big Picture: conceptual view • Tapas, Nuggets, Modules readily available Growing Conceptual Understanding This follows the general idea of a learning journey: start guided, growing more and more self directed.
- 5. Start Smart DiveDeeper Look for Support
- 6. A Map andTravel Reports Every Transformation Journey is different. The map might help you to find „your“ way: Three main categories (continents) § Evolving Strategy § People and Culture § Enabling Structures Two overarching categories (oceans) § Systems Thinking § Common Values and Principles Benefit § Change of Perspective § Overview, Orientation and Inspiration § Revealing Blind Spots
- 9. Start Smart DiveDeeper Look for Support
- 10. Proposals out ofthe Travel Guide Example Route / Playbook 1. Find the „Why“ 2. Common values and principles 3. Learning Mindset 4. The situation determines the approach 5. As a leader, be commited 6. Slice the elephant – define smaller deliveries
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- 12. Helpful Transformation Patterns 1.Find the „Why“ for the Transformation „How do we are going to see that we are successful“ Perceived Problems Root Cause
- 13. Helpful Transformation Patterns 2.Common Values and Principles Attitu de Behavi our Experi ence Values and Principles impact attitude, mindset and behaviour. Commonly defined, stable values and principles act as a „Culture North Star“ that provides orientation and reflection space during our learning journey. Attitude and mindset develop over time…. …. on a personal and on an organizational level.
- 14. Helpful Transformation Patterns Transformationjourneys are learning journeys. None is like the other. It needs a common understanding that a feasible solution will develop over time. Through experimenting and adapting patterns in our cooperation and collaboration we will learn and improve together on our journey. An iterarative approach will help to find emerging patterns that will optimize our work processes. 3. Learning Mindset Learning is what makes our collaboration more successful
- 15. Helpful Transformation Patterns 4.Approach according to Situation The situation determines the approach. Depending on the problems you want to solve, different methodologies and techniques can be helpful. Methods will be chosen and applied based on expert knowledge.
- 16. Helpful Transformation Patterns Leaders‘commitment and active participation are a crucial success factor 5. As a Leader, be committed, not only involved
- 17. Helpful Transformation Patterns Ifthe goal is too big, slice it up. Smaller pieces/work batches help to generate focus deliver in fast iterations and allow for quick learning and feedback cycles ensure value-driven outcome. 6. Slice the Elephant
- 18. Start Smart DiveDeeper Look for Support
- 19. Big Picture Modules onthe go eTrainings
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- 21. Contents are CreativeCommons Vendors are invited to build upon the contents The concepts are not complete: more stories to be told, more travel guides, more nuggets, modules and an updated Big Picture more contributors Current Status and the Future https://growing-adaptive- organizations.org/before-you-start/ https://growing-adaptive- organizations.com/en/adaptive-organization-poster/