OD79: How will you get business results while working in a hybrid setup?

Strategy in Open Networks ? Org Design & DAOs ? EODF Book Clubs ? Westrum Model ? GitHub's Octoverse ? “Business Results with Hybrid Setups” Series ? Interconnections

Dear readers,

This edition marks the 2 year anniversary of the OrgDev newsletter ??

Some of you joined this knowledge journey since the beginning and encouraged us to keep publishing. Many of you started reading the newsletter more recently and helped us shape it to make it more and more relevant for you and for other people interested in Strategy & Organization insights.

We'd like to thank each of you for your continued support ??

Here are some minor tweaks that we’re implementing now, based on your feedback:

• Start with the Strategy & Organization Goodies section;
• Publish on Sundays, instead of Thursdays (which seems to be a very busy day for many of you);
• Share more insights from our experience;
• Pilot a new section of Interconnections - a few picks from other, sometimes unexpected, disciplines.

Let’s enjoy many more years on this journey,

Raluca & Bülent

Strategy & Organization Goodies

1/ Strategy:?Ed Morrison’s thesis presents a new model for?developing and implementing strategy in open networks.

”Most of the strategy literature (…) addresses the challenge of?one organization attempting to survive and thrive in the world.

(…) strategic management has had to make two big adjustments. First, the?environments?in which we operate have become far?more?turbulent. Second, our organizations have become?more porous,?more networked, and?less hierarchical.”

We’re also working on developing a multi-player strategy model for business ecosystems, playing with 3D models in?Tinkercad. Hope to publish the model this summer.

2/?Org Design: Sam Spurlin writes about his new explorations as an?Org Designer in the Land of DAOs. One of his questions that we’re also very curious about:

To what extent do DAOs offer a framework for more equitable, adaptive, and human ways of working?

3/?Org Design: EODF Book Clubs for the next months have been announced:

• 2 Feb:?Designing Organization Design: A Human Centred Approach
• 1 Mar:?Networked, Scaled and Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations
• 5 Apr:?Data-driven Organization Design
• 3 May:?Designing Organisations?– Why it matters and ways to do it well

4/ OD: The?Westrum organizational typology model?provides some interesting links between information flows and organizational culture.

5/ OD:?GitHub’s Octoverse?has lots of data-based insights about what makes developers and teams perform better, be more productive, and have a great developer experience (also relevant for non-Tech organizations that produce value through complex knowledge work). Two snapshots:

Hybrid & Fully Remote dominating post-pandemic expectations

Illuminating some links between knowledge management and performance

?? “Business Results with Hybrid Setups” Series

If you recently asked yourself:

“How could we do this hybrid/remote thing better going forward, as a team and as an organization?”

We’re preparing something for you, in the form of a?new?series of hands-on workshops.

Format: 6 workshops x 3 hours, Zoom & Miro

Frequency: weekly, on Tuesdays at 4pm CET Paris

Duration: mid March to mid April (15.03.2022 to 19.04.2022)

Join the Waiting List

You’ll learn about how to design better hybrid work setups for your organization, for your team and for yourself. The purpose of this learning program is to?equip you with practical tools and a better understanding?about how a well designed hybrid work setup leads to sustainable business results going forward.

If you’re an external consultant, you might have already seen the increased demand in engagements around hybrid work, as more organizations realize the importance of preparing better for performing in a hybrid setup. By joining this program, you might upgrade your value proposition for this type of work, through an?enhanced toolbox and better lenses?that you can use to help your clients.

While exploring together the various areas of the unique?Links Model of Hybrid Work,?you’ll have the opportunity to?design various hybrid setup options?based on the Configurable Design Elements of: Desired Outcomes, Constraints, Principles and Testing Criteria.

We’ll detail the Links Model and the Configurable Design Elements in the next editions of the OrgDev newsletter. Stay tuned!

Get the Hi-Res PDF

Your host for this?high-intensity learning camp?about Hybrid Work is?Bülent Duagi, Sr. Strategic Adviser and Capability Builder.

”As a Strategy & Organization professional, I'm partnering with visionary Tech companies to help them address their most complex strategic & organizational challenges. My role is to advise and guide CEOs, other Sr. Leaders and their teams on business strategy, org design and org development.

For the Tech companies in 2022, one of the most complex organizational (and sometimes strategic) challenges is designing hybrid work setups that enable the organization continues to achieve the desired business results and strategy.”

Join the Waiting List

If you join the list now, you’ll benefit from the best price, in exchange for your early support for this endeavor. Starting next month we'll announce the usual early bird / normal prices.

???Webinar: Making Hybrid-work, work!

We’ve partnered with the PTHR team, our friends in UK, to co-host a session about hybrid work. During the 45 min webinar, Bülent will share more insights about our?Links Model of Hybrid Work,?along with examples and practices from the organizations that we work with.

• Date:?Thu, 17 Feb, 11:00 - 11:45 GMT
• Ticket price: ï¿¡10 (with ï¿¡2 going to charity)

Register

Interconnections

Picks from disciplines?vaguely?connected to Strategy, Org Design & OD

• Biology:?You might enjoy the new?Biomimicry?newsletter. The first edition covers earwigs & wings, sea creatures & electricity, bacteria & yeast communities in kombucha and a few other fascinating examples, inspired by nature.
• Cosmology: “In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a?neural network?can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.”
• Musicology: “Humans are the only ground-dwelling species that?sings. There are over 4000 singing species — mostly birds, but also gibbons, dolphins, whales, and seals. But they all sing from water or the trees. When a bird lands on the ground, it invariably stops singing.”
• Information Architecture:?Music as an Organizing System?- Using an IA Approach to Understand Musical Complexity

“Consider the design problem composers face. Every note of every musical instrument could be used in a piece of music, which on a piano would be 88 different keys consisting of 12 different notes over 7 ? octaves. The possibilities for musical innovation are unbounded, which requires creativity to be constrained to avoid the paralysis created by an overabundance of options.”

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