Design for Growth, Innovation and High Performance
Platform Technology provides a robust framework for business leaders to unleash their organisation's creative and innovative forces while keeping a firm grasp on the direction and speed of advancement.
The essential building blocks are Leadership, Vision, Guiding Principles, Hierarchy of process, Platform Design, MIcroTeams™ and the organisational Social Contract. Developing your platform is not linear and can involve different elements at different times. Platform technology is built with language and communication that is relevant and appropriate for your business's growth stage.
Your platform is the source of your business's uniqueness, which is aligned with the characteristics of everyone working there. The most successful platforms are those developed with and through your people, capturing your business's uniqueness.
Developing a business platform is the most effective form of change management. It provides the necessary tools to build a sustainable, transformative business model and meet the ever-increasing challenges businesses face.
It engages all levels in the organisation and aligns their efforts towards a shared vision.
Using the building blocks of organisation design, leaders and managers can ensure their design meets the needs of the business and the people who work in it. Instead of adopting someone else's design and squeezing into it, you create your business your way. Platform technology provides the foundations for true equality, diversity and inclusion that meet the needs of your business.
Platform Technology supports the development of innovative and transformative organisations, starting with Leadership. Without the executive's authority and buy-in, starting the transformative journey is pointless and can even be damaging. Because developing the business platform is not a linear process, how you use the tools depends on your organisation's needs. The only common element is the leadership vision workshop, where everything starts.
Leadership Vision Workshop: Establish Core Criteria – Senior Management team.
Following the Leadership Vision Workshop, the following elements of platform technology can be applied.
Communicate and Engage: Events will be held to engage the selected workforce and management and begin the selection of initial teams.
Management Development: Establish New Relationships and Communication structures between managers and teams and create parameters for managing the conditions.
Guiding Principles: Establish principles for finance, corporate ethics, strategic intent and the development of people.
Hierarchy of Process: Introduce a hierarchy based on competence, knowledge, and information influencing process execution.
MicroTeams™: The smallest units of organisation design. An autonomous group of team members focused on a specific outcome or process.
Social Contract: Every successful business has a well-recognised code of conduct. Today, that code must include guidance on ESG, DEI, and AI.
Platform Design: How your organisation is designed is the source of its uniqueness. The conditions you create determine the culture, performance and, ultimately, the level of success.
Mastering the seven building blocks of organisational design is quick and effective. You will rapidly create a truly transformative team to lead the process throughout your organisation. A continuous state of change and uncertainty will no longer seem threatening but more like the normal way of doing business.
As more teams become proficient in designing the conditions for innovation, growth, and high performance, you will see dramatic positive changes that ripple through the business.
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If designing your platform around a common vision seems daunting, book a call with me to discover simple steps to create a dynamic platform that meets your needs today and is your unique platform for the future.
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