Areas of Interest The map shows regions and areas of interest that you may want to visit during your journey. It can help you to find your way when you are planning or are already on the road. For a holistic transformational journey, take the time to pay attention to all three main categories and
The Travel Metaphor … We use the metaphor of a travel guide as every transformation is also a (learning) journey. Full of surprises, unexpeted turns, new discoveries but also huge dissapointments. Nonetheless: it is always a thrilling journey. … a Starting Point With the travel guide we want to provide you with ideas for your
Welcome to the World of the Viable System Model The Canvas and the accompanying playbook focus on the viability of organizations. They help to master the Viable System Model (VSM). Viability encompasses more than just survival; it involves sustaining a meaningful existence, complete with distinct goals and identity, while also preparing for the future and
What are Adaptive Organizations Our Understanding Today’s world – societies and businesses – is characterized by fast change, unpredictability, complexity and ambiguity. Companies face the challenge how to thrive in this ecosystem. The key question is: how to continually evolve and adapt fast in creating customer value? There are many ways to achieve this state
About the VSM The Viable System Model (VSM) was first formulated in 1959 by Stafford Beer in his book Cybernetics and Management. It serves as a reference model for describing, diagnosing, and designing the management of organizations, capturing the management functions at each organizational level, representing the flow of information between organizational levels, and helping
Guiding principles are concepts and ideas that span a wide range and have many forms of application.
Both operational excellence and disruption of existing activities require a continuous effort of augmented learning and a systemic view. This must be supported by a culture of trust and needs appropriate leadership.Augmented Learning – continuous development of skills and competencies and evolution of the organization to meet its challenges.Most important result: adaptability
An organization’s ability to achieve its business goals requires far more flexibility, initiative, motivation, and new skills than in traditional environments. They include a combination of: Many of these are included in the Lean and Agile principles, methods and toolkits, others have been around longer, such as Post-Heroic Leadership. Their combined use has become an
1. Find the „Why“ for the Transformation „How do we are going to see that we are successful“ 2. Common Values and Principles Values and Principles impact attitude, mindset and behaviour. Commonly defined, stable values and principles act as a „Culture North Star“ that provides orientation and reflection space during our learning journey. 3. Learning
… how we switched from local improvements to a new structure This is a story of our Agile Transformation where we transformed our enterprise. The leadership team of a sub-unit consisting of 2.000 people of our company sat together, discussing how to improve. We sat there, wondering. And the insight came, that driving improvements in
