OD89: Bets, Portfolios, Decisions ??
Bülent Duagi ????
Strategy Adviser for CEOs in Tech ? Guidance for keeping your business relevant
Increase your organization-wide impact.
Dear readers,
This edition, we’re experimenting with a new format that is lighter & more visual. Hope you enjoy it!
Meanwhile, having in mind For Better Org’s purpose of?increasing your organization-wide impact, we’re preparing to share with you more original content in the upcoming editions. Stay tuned ??
Shared knowledge accelerates impact, ??
Raluca & Bülent
Strategy & Organization Goodies
1/ Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map for Portfolio Management
Source: blueoceanstrategy.com
”The?Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map ?allows you to see in one simple picture what your current portfolio of businesses says about your future growth prospects and indicates how you should drive your company to lift your prospects over time.”
2/ Governance is how we choose to be together
Source: networkweaver.com
”Last year, a group of worldbuilders came together with a shared commitment to collective liberation — and the?governance principles ?we’ll need to bring it into being. Together, we moved through a series of clinics to deepen our?collective governance practice .
What follows is a constellation of words, images, and musical offerings to describe this journey into liberatory governance (…).”
3/ A Portfolio of Bets
Source: cutlefish.substack.com
”I encourage teams to think about their roadmap as?a?portfolio of bets .?Different initiatives have different risk/reward profiles. When the strategy and goals change, the mix changes. You can hedge and over-hedge.”
4/ Decide about Deciding
Source: sloanreview.mit.edu
”In this two-by-two matrix,?decisions are categorized ?into four boxes along axes representing how urgent the decision is and how high or low the stakes are. Each box has a correlating expectation about whether I should be involved, ranging from “Decide without me” and “Inform on progress” to “Propose for approval” and “Escalate immediately.”
Interconnections
Picks from disciplines (vaguely?)?connected to Strategy, Org Design & OD
1/ Poetry & Evolutionary Biology:
Source: themarginalian.org
”This herbarium — which survives — became Emily Dickinson’s first formal exercise in composition, and although she came to reverence the delicate interleavings of nature in so many of her stunning, spare, strange poems (…)”
2/ Circular Economy:
Source: Bloomberg
”If the planet is to achieve net zero carbon emissions, cities are where it will happen first. Cities produce more than 60% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations, but they are also laboratories and key actors for conquering climate change.”
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