Organizational Topologies Are Here to Guide Your Transformation
Why Org Topologies?
Many organizations struggle to adopt "agile" in a way that delivers on its promise to make the company fast, flexible, and efficient.
Global consultancy firms have great pitches on how to adopt different so-called "Agile frameworks". The marketing is great, but are the results too? We see how our clients get stuck in adopting a framework — forming "agile teams", appointing "product owners", and then clustering all this into "tribes". Thus creating robust structures that make further organizational improvements and adaptability difficult, slow, and expensive.
Discovering your path
We believe that every organization needs to discover its own agile adoption goal, and then lay down a path to it. Discovering a deeper meaning and journey is vital for any organization that doesn't want just to adopt the agile terminology.
The thinking tools offered by Org Topologies are a context-driven approach to find the level of adaptivity that fits your organization. You will learn a new way of looking at organizational transformation towards high adaptivity. We offer a realistic palette of corporate transformation strategies using archetypical organization topologies.
The Adaptivity Map as a thinking tool
We have developed a thinking tool — the Adaptivity Map. With it, you will discover different topologies of organizational design. We call them archetypes. They are mapped along two axes: team-level fluency and product-level fluency. This visual map helps you study different org-design decisions, compare and contrast them. And by doing this, you can discover the transformation path that is right for your organization, and get ready for the paradigm shifts you need to cross to move toward the perfection vision of high adaptability.
Designing your transformation roadmap
Decision-makers applying these thinking tools will get familiar with the model and will be able to evaluate their ongoing agile adoption (if any). They will be able to see their next horizon and understand what options are available and what difficulties need to be overcome. It will allow you to assess and (re)design your agile transformation roadmap.
Benefits
By studying Org Topologies and its thinking tools, you will deepen your thinking on these key points:
- Understanding how agile adoptions are a journey, and the adoption of any scaling framework is not an end-state.
- Understanding the prevalent Org Topologies — archetypes of agile organization design — and what a starting point of minimal agility looks like.
- Identifying which Org Topology matches your current agile adoption.
- Learning to navigate agile transformations using the Adaptivity Map to improve your adoption journey.
- Seeing the organizational changes and paradigm shifts that are required to move toward a more adaptive organization.
Download and study the maps
Download the fresh release of the maps at orgtopologies.com.