Member Community Event: From Renting Resources to Driving Strategy: A Shift Toward Business-Oriented R&D
Thu 17 Apr
|Live Streaming (link in registration email)
Mauro Sacchi, a product developer at Wärtsilä, will share the company's journey from Resource Topology (TASKS/CAPS levels) to a Driving Topology (PART/WHOLE levels).
Time & Location
17 Apr 2025, 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
Live Streaming (link in registration email)
About the event
Guest speaker: Mauro Sacchi, a product developer at Wärtsilä.
From Renting Resources to Driving Strategy: A Shift Toward Business-Oriented R&D
In our industries, large capital investment projects dominate and organizational inertia is high. Until recently, our digital units operated in a service-provider model, organized primarily for delivering detailed requests stakeholder by stakeholder. This meant functional silos and reactive delivery. But strategic demands have changed.
We have been transitioning toward a driving topology—building autonomous, multi-skilled, and business-integrated R&D capabilities. By adopting the Org Topologies™ method, we’ve moved beyond optimizing resource utilization toward enabling innovation, co-ownership, and strategic adaptability.
This talk will share our journey from Resource Topology (TASKS/CAPS levels) to a Driving Topology (PART/WHOLE levels)—highlighting how we applied systemic org design principles to navigate the transformation, manage reciprocal dependencies, and build ecosystems fit for purpose.
"This training has proven extremely valuable in assessing our progress on our agile journey. An engaging and interactive workshop, where we collectively explored and discovered new insights."
"Thank you so much for igniting/ boosting my inspiration to continue coaching organizations."
"For me OrgTopologies™ concept brought new light and joy into scaling conversations and I would highly recommend it for any organization no matter how far they are on their agile journey."
"Highly recommended! This training shows the disadvantages of how organizations tend to scale and the pitfalls of a framework approach... It shows the way in the transformation journey towards the perfection state of high adaptivity and innovation, with tips and tools to move from working as a group of teams to working as one team (of teams)."