Companies want to be faster to react, innovate and become as flexible as all the IT start-ups we hear about. For many, it is not just a wish, it is an urgent need. Because if you want to keep up with today, you have to develop all the time.
According to the authors of this Letter to the CEO, Julian Birkinshaw and Jonas Ridderstråle, the changes they propose will not just make your business more agile. They will also make your life easier.
They call their model Adhocracy. It is about changing our mindset. The focus must be shifted from rules, procedures, knowledge and insight (which make our companies slower and less agile) to one focus on action.
Just as in the military, where small units operate in hostile territory, where adaptation and quick choices are imperative, for businesses it's about breaking work into small projects, experimenting, market testing and quickly adapting to feedback.
The authors mention several examples of methods that you can be inspired by, e.g. the agile movement, the scrum methodology, beyond budgeting and Holacracy.
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