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Budgeting for the Organization We Need
Read article: Budgeting for the Organization We NeedBudget first, reorganization next? I would broadly validate the budgeting timetable, but challenge the implied sequence and causality. Your statement combines three propositions: companies budget in autumn, budgets are finalized… Continue reading
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Diagnose Before You Design
Read article: Diagnose Before You DesignMost organizations begin change with an answer. “We need AI.” “We need shared services.” “We need to scale without losing who we are.” Each sentence sounds like a strategy, but… Continue reading
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Ethics in Adaptive Organizations (AO Method)
Read article: Ethics in Adaptive Organizations (AO Method)Ethics is already built into the AO Method’s grammar The AO Method doesn’t need an “ethics module” bolted on — you’ve structured ethics as a load-bearing part of the diagnostic… Continue reading
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What Makes an Organization Product-Centric?
Read article: What Makes an Organization Product-Centric?“Product-centric” is claimed far more often than it is demonstrated. This article proposes three evidence-bound pillars for testing the claim rather than taking it at face value: persistent product or… Continue reading
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How we organize shared services?
Read article: How we organize shared services?Most operating models put shared services in a “Platform” or “enabling function” layer: a stable core (finance, HR, IT, legal, procurement, facilities) that serves delivery units without owning their outcomes.… Continue reading
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Problems, issues, and challenges that the AO method can help solve
Read article: Problems, issues, and challenges that the AO method can help solveAO Method’s problem-solving scope across your organizational knowledge base. Here’s the full list: core organizational tensions, Flow, value, and delivery problems, Culture and behavioral problems, Risk, autonomy, and governance problems,… Continue reading
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AO Retirement approach
Read article: AO Retirement approachMost retirement advice treats a departure as a legal event with people topics attached. Lawyers draft, bankers price, tax advisors optimise, and a change consultant is added to soften the… Continue reading
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Compare BPMN vs. the AO Method
Read article: Compare BPMN vs. the AO MethodBPMN 2.0 is a notation, not a method. What differs between a “traditional” transformation programme and an AO-led one is not whether BPMN is used, but what BPMN is asked… Continue reading
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Credo
Read article: CredoThe Adaptive Organization Credo What I believe about designing organizations that can keep learning I have spent my practice with teams, executives, and systems that were told they were “agile”… Continue reading
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Change vs. Transformation: Why Your “Transformation” Might Just Be Change in a Trench Coat
Read article: Change vs. Transformation: Why Your “Transformation” Might Just Be Change in a Trench CoatMost “transformations” I’ve been asked to lead were never transformations. They were changes wearing a bigger name tag. Change is something an organization does — a new tool, a new… Continue reading