HOME OF STRATEGIC ORG DESIGN
Org Topologies helps leaders drive organizational performance by aligning org design to business objectives.
This is strategic org design: every organizational element—from structures to career paths to policies to processes—is intentionally decided and aligned so that each part reinforces the others to be fit for purpose.
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GET THE PRIMER
Org Topologies™ Primer is a free, comprehensive summary of the Org Topologies method to help you map, assess, design, and elevate your organizational ecosystem with a strategic org design approach:
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Two dimensions of org design
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Four organizational characteristics
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Sixteen archetypes within four groups
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Three distinctive organizational topologies
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Change MADE Real method
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Strategic AI adoption
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Different org designs serve different org goals (adaptiveness, flow, etc).
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When chosen wrongly, unfit org design hinders performance in achieving business objectives (market share, profit, etc).
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Leaders can and should deliberately design an organization to be fit for purpose: the org goal (e.g. adaptive) should align with and influence the business objective (e.g. profit).
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AI requires a deliberate org redesign to enable a 10X organizational performance increase: without an adaptive org design, the impact of AI will be minimal and short-lived.
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People AND AI (not "AI - People").
Why Org Design Is Important in the Age of AI
Org Topologies Mapping
Org Topologies introduces a simple but powerful language to clarify organizational development without resorting to “agile” or other framework-specific jargon. This makes it easier to create a shared understanding of things as they are. The visual language connects specialists from different backgrounds and facilitates open, unambiguous discussions about the performance of the organizational design.
The Org Topologies map is a visual thinking tool to guide the redesign of organizations, easy for many to use. The related change method MADE unfolds in four distinct steps: Map, Assess, Design, and Elevate.
Elevating Katas™: Systemic Org Change
The Elevating Katas are a set of practices and principles that can be applied as thoughtful experiments to change the organizational structure, processes, policies, and so forth. We are working toward a collection of Elevating Katas that can be applied to get change going, helping to improve any organization in the thoughtful direction of any topology.
Benefits of Org Topologies
Org. development I Executive coaching | Certified Org Topologies Partner
"Since 2022, I’ve experienced great value from using Org Topologies™ (OT) with clients in different organizational development contexts. One of the most compelling reasons is that it gave us a way to communicate observations, experiences, ideas, and potential change initiatives that were otherwise hard to explain consistently.
It shifted the focus from consultant-led advice to client-owned reasoning. This empowered the organizations to take greater ownership of both problem understanding and experimentation with design improvements."
Agile and Product Coach
"It was so much easier to describe the FlixBus agile journey using Org Topologies™, which otherwise would need much more explanation and reasoning. Mapping product depth and team skills dimensions bridges the gap between applying frameworks and discovering ways to organize teams. Thank you for the elegant system to visualize organizational growth."
