Leap of Faith
Whatever you are, you have an Identity. Maybe it is not cast in steel or set in stone (yet). Make sure to document it. Only what is written down somewhere counts. Whatever you do has an objective. It should have a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). You may want to check the concept of the OKR […]
A Growing Map: A Real Life Example
This is some party knowledge now:There is a cool, real life description how to work with incomplete and even totally wrong maps and still reach your goal. The description of Maurice Herzog of the first conquest of an 8000m peak in the himalayas in 1950: “Annapurna – Maurice Herzog E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. New […]
Story Line
The Mission The site describes our view of the needs and mechanics of creating an adaptive organization. It relies on insight of practitioners of enterprises including DAX30 companies. The techniques include principles of Lean and Agility, but are not restricted to specific methods or frameworks. Key levers for Growing the Adaptive Organization The harmonic orchestration […]
Flexible or Adaptive?
Are you flexible or are you adaptive? What should you be? I do not know, but I prefer adaptive. What is the difference anyway? If you are flexible, you are like the flag in the wind. Just moved and shuffled around. You take the path of least resistance. That is a way to survive. Being […]
Strategy, Tactics, and Operations
Strategy is the “art of the general”. Strategy is not a plan. It is input to the plan. The plan of what to do is formulated in the tactics. Tactics makes the strategy tangible. The plan is nice, but the only reason for planning is planning. The plan does not lead to a product. What […]
Value Proposition Analysis
Put the Eric Ries Lean “Start-Up in a Nutshell” here… The Lean Startup von Venture Hacks Cowan+ aboutYour Lean Startup
Flow oriented organization design
Silo View Flow View
Strategic Workforce Development
Actively develop your organization as the organization actively develops your products. This idea directly shows the importance of strategy, tactical and execution for workforce planning as well as product planning. Workforce and products need to follow a common roadmap. If there are products on the roadmap and the organization has not the right skills and […]
Portfolio and Strategy
A Product Portfolio does not happen. O.K. sometimes it does, but in fact in order to reach a certain goal, your goal, You need to have a stringent development strategy and this development strategy needs to be managed, i.e. be aligned with an overall strategy, needs to recognize time horizons, needs to realize that capacity […]
From Situation to Strategy
How to I start strategic work when I have never followed a stringent path in terms of strategy? Document your portfolio as it is today. You can find a center of gravity in there? This is your identity. Your portfolio defines your identity. If not, give yourself an identity. How do you want to be […]