Building organisations that adapt and evolve
The business landscape is changing rapidly. In a rapidly changing environment, organisations need to look at change in a different way, not as something to be managed, but something to be embraced. The faster and more easily an organisation can change, the better it will survive.
Organisational change is typically large, slow, expensive and disruptive. Traditional organisations behave like machines - they are static and unchanging, stamping out the same products over and over again, until conditions change so much that they stop functioning well and need to be torn apart and re-designed.
An evolutionary organisation grows and changes continually, like a thriving ecosystem. Changing to adapt to new conditions becomes part of the organisation’s DNA.
To become an evolutionary organisation, four perspectives must be considered -
Evolutionary Leadership
How the organisation’s leaders work to enable change and guide the organisation to the right strategic outcomes
Evolutionary Governance
How the organisation’s systems of governance, from its funding and budgeting cycle to its project and program delivery, work to enable, rather than prevent change
Evolutionary Alignment
How the organisation’s design allows teams to come together to seamlessly deliver value to customers, and how that design evolves over time to adapt to change.
Evolutionary Change
How the organisation prepares and supports its people to enable them for change.