In this article, I would like to explain my experiment with an ambidextrous organization and governance model, which has the ambition to embody two souls of exploration and exploitation in the same body even in the most reliability-driven organizations. Before...
Organizational Structure to Enable Agility
Organizations need to be agile in delivering both incremental and radical innovations. Incremental innovation projects are easier to manage within the usual functional and bureaucratic structures. However radical innovation endeavors may require a different setup due...
The Principles of Organizational Ambidexterity / Agility (OA)
(Check previous articles: What is Organizational Ambidexterity? What is Organizational Agility?) Software development world translated agile purpose into 4 values, 12 principles and various practices. Initially, software world’s understanding of agility was mainly at...
What is Organizational Ambidexterity?
Most of the sources about organizational ambidexterity start explaining the concept by providing statistics about the life span of companies. They mention how Fortune 500 list evolved over time, provide examples of once-upon-a-time successful companies (such as Kodak,...
What is Organizational Agility?
We hear a lot about agility nowadays. Agile methods have become infamous all around after their successful utilization in software development area. Actually, it is possible to see earlier and fairly extensive utilizations of agile methods at the mids of 1900s in...
What is the Problem of the Current Modern Organizations?
All of the modern business organizations of today share a common template, in other words a common operating system. Wherever you go in the world, whichever organization you see, you will come across with similar practices of management and organizing. This operating...