Strategy as a structural act (not a slide deck). Posts on how organizations decide what to do and what to refuse.
Nestlé is exiting ice cream, spinning out water, and cutting 16,000 roles...and it can do all of that cleanly because of a global ERP project that started in 2000 and took more than a decade to roll out. Technology!
Company as code; a city is not a computer; AI as cybernetic teammate; a field experiment rewires the org chart; when it starts feeling like a video game
Porter's Five Forces are worth critiquing but we've got to adopt structures that actually allow organizations to adapt to big shocks.
Going back to the archives with the original attempt to join hard and soft elements of organization design. Also, I missed a day. Oops!
Every (big-ish) box on your org chart should have a connection to your strategy. (Almost missed today due to bad wifi on my United Flight.)
4 ways to use Pace Layers in strategy and OD work: 🚀 As a career planning tool; 🎓 As a strategy tool; 🔬 As a diagnostic or sense-making tool; 🎨 As a design tool for value-adding layers.
Prioritization isn't a tool problem. Or an individual performance problem. It's a strategy problem, and not one that you can fix with a better slide deck. It's about good diagnosis, a clear guiding policy, and truly connected actions... *made memorable* and *made practical.*
TLDR: Activist investors want lean SBUs, and they don't love that matrix
Explaining why big, transformative top-down projects never seem to work, and two simple recommendations to fix the glitch: less strategy; more structure.
The correct answer to a question about the level of distributed authority doesn't just respond to the will of the people, or to some theoretical norm – it has to be in conversation with the market dynamics of the industry and the company's position in that market.
Chick-Fil-A; The Agency Problem; NFL broadcasters; The Unsexy Side of Responsiveness; Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Laws for spacecraft design; Competing with Excel; The original iPhone prototype; Build boring features; Your app is making me fat; Rants on the future of interaction design; Why publishers hate iOS7; Big things start as toys
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