Deciphering the Essence of an Operating Model
Explore the essence of operating models in business transformation. Uncover components, real-world insights, and the path to organizational brilliance. #BusinessTransformation #OperatingModels
Explore the essence of operating models in business transformation. Uncover components, real-world insights, and the path to organizational brilliance. #BusinessTransformation #OperatingModels
Embracing flexibility and coordination in operating models can help organizations stay ahead of the curve and drive business success. And by leveraging the knowledge available within the organisation and developing capabilities for the future, organisations can create a more agile, responsive, and customer-focused operating model that delivers results.
Drawing from real-world examples, we explore the case of simultaneous Agile transformation and flat structure implementation, intentionally kept separate. We dissect the possible reasons behind this separation and advocate for a more informed, synergistic approach to change management.
The final part of the article series on KNOM Element Five discusses how consistent change can be instigated through knowledge. Element Five: Outcome & Data Insights is the lifeblood of the KNOM organization, aggregating and dissecting data into actionable insights. To avoid having data smelling like rubbish, the article suggests establishing beforehand the aims the data must generate insights towards and help to improve. The article explains the data pyramid and how data is a tool for enhancing intuition. Element Five: Outcome & Data Insights proceeds through all the levels of the pyramid in different categories. These six categories are the most commonly utilized: Capability Accounting, Goals Vs Results, Market Outlook & Changes, Governance Backlog & Accounting, Talent & Culture Backlog, and Finance Backlog.
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. – Stephen Covey
In part five of this article series of the Knowledge Network Operating Model we will discuss how products, services or solutions are executed for high impact and data evaluation.
With the Knowledge Network Operating Model (KNOM), you avoid the degradation of teams while harnessing the most important competitive advantage for an organisation: its people.
This article is part 3 in my KNOM series delving into Element 3, where plans turn into execution in radical new ways based on Way of Work principles, Whole Scale Change, and Dynamic Reteaming.
As J.R.D. Tata said: “The effective execution of a Plan is what counts and not mere planning on paper; it is not what we put on our plate or even what we eat that provides nourishment and growth, but what we digest.”
Element 2: Strategy Formation and Planning is the insight that strategy is not something planned but a continual process of learning and adaption. It is an ongoing and pivotal methodology running throughout the entire KNOM structure explained in The Overview of KNOM.