Organizations are constantly challenged to align their operational capabilities with their strategic objectives. An effective operating model serves as the backbone of this alignment, acting as a bridge that connects strategic vision with operational execution.
Organizational culture is a complex and multifaceted concept that influences the behavior of individuals within an organization. By understanding the different interpretations of culture and the symptoms of different types of organizational cultures, organizations can take steps to create a positive and healthy work environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and growth.
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.
Skills and capabilities are in constant flux.
One day one skill is crucial – the other day, a new capability overtakes it. The Knowledge Network Operating Model constantly evaluates and iterates upon the skills and capabilities needed for the organisation to overperform.
This and more I delve into in Element 1: Permanent Home of my new organisational operating model – give it a read and let me know what you think.
You will never have a “finished” organigram, hierarchical structure, or organisational design because circumstances change to force the organisation to change. The ecology shifts, so the organisation must adapt. The Knowledge Network Operating Model, or KNOM, is designed to continually be adaptive, always changing based on circumstances.
I see organisations as living organisms that can either shelter or adapt themselves based on four layers of interacting variables: Product/Service, People, Processes/Procedures, and Culture. Most companies pride themselves on adaption due to rapidly changing environments. Although, what I have experienced is that organisations do not follow such an adaptable mindset. The organisational structure is rigid and needs to reflect the opposite: dynamism and adaptability.