agility means you'll need another operating system for your organization

Welcome in the Age of Agility …

STRATEGY EXECUTION

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STRATEGY

Only organizations able to create a context which nurtures the mindset

and behavior for “Strategy Execution”

in a lean and agile way will survive

in this era of change.

Why do youneed a new strategy?

What kind of behaviour and/or mindsetwill make it work?

If you need this

And you keep getting

this …

… than a bigger hammer won’t do the job

What can we learn from the companies that are

ahead of the curve

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There is maybe more that needs

change?

Let’s start with an analogy …

It’s all about stages of complexity

Operating Systems of Organizations – OS 1.0

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Pack of Wolves

OS 1.0: Pack of Wolves, tribes or gangs:• Lead by the strongest alpha male• Power, agression, survival modus• Short time Operating Model

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Operating Systems of Organizations – OS 2.0

OS 2.0: Army, goverment, church, …• Lead by laws, rules, tradition (> reality)• Hierarchy and compliance• Longer time perspective (Strategy)

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Machine

Operating Systems of Organizations – OS 3.0

OS 3.0: Machine• Centralized command and control• Expertise, knowledge, results, ladders• People are parts of process• Market Oriented -> Mass production

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Machine

Familiy

Operating Systems of Organizations – OS 4.0

OS 4.0: Family• Empowering context• Allergy for rules and hierarchy• Relational, togetherness, participative …• People/Customer oriented (experience)

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Machine

Familiy

Living System

Operating Systems of Organizations – OS 5.0

OS 5.0: Living Systems (= mix of OS)• Functional Hierarchy• Agility - Self-Regulation based on

Leading Principles (= Framed Autonomy)

Like a human being, a company can fall back to a lower level of operating

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Machine

Familiy

Living System

Agility is something natural …

Rigidity is induced by the way we design organizations …

Pyramids create mummies

Or, the BOX we put people in determines their behaviour …

So, survival of the fittest is not only for panda bears,

tigers or dinosaurs.

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If there is more that needs

change?

Updating your Organizational Operating System

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Pack of Wolves

Army

Machine

Familiy

Living System

Outside

Inside

Individual Collective

EmployeeBehaviour

Employee Drivers

CultureValues

Structure, Strategy,Processes

Culture eats Strategy for breakfast

Leadership by Design

What kind of behaviour do we have to stimulate more within our people, and how?Where do we block them from doing so, and how?

What kind of structures, procedures and practices support the development of the

behaviour we need more?And what could be blocking this

development?

How can we ignite the positive drivers of our people?How can we link their inner drivers with our strategy?Where do we create mismatches?

What are our core values (DNA) and how do we keep them alive?

Where does they support our new strategy and where could friction appear?

Where could we seem to be leaving our roots?

Philippe BailleurErvaren Gids voor OrganisatieVernieuwing

pbailleur@livingsystemscoaching.beVolg mijn blog: www.livingsystemscoaching.be