Holocracy Archive - agile Companies

Digital change 21. March 2021

Complexity in management, agility and digital transformation

Management complexity has been around since digital transformation brought back into focus. How can companies deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of markets? How can modern leadership and structure be established in companies and how can we reduce complexity with the help of special methods. According to the author Niels Pfläging, corporate structures should be just as lively as markets. But what does he mean exactly and how is complexity reduced in practice? Why is there complexity in management Why did it get so complex? What were the triggers and why wasn’t it like that “earlier”? For this I found the picture above. It seems that this dynamic has only slowly increased since 1970 and has peaked again in the past few years. The reasons for the high density and the increase in competition appear understandable. In addition, many authors mention the digital transformation, Industry 4.0 and Big data…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Reinventing Organizations: Organizations Yesterday and Today

Organizations are in constant change. A core task of the modern manager is to carry out changes together with employees and to actively involve them in the process. Especially in times of a shortage of skilled workers and constantly changing market conditions, it is important to make a company fit for the future. this has Frederic Laloux in his book Reinventing Organizations examines the organizational development of the last 100,000 (!) Years in detail and provides information on where modern organizations should move. Reinventing Organizations In his book, Laloux gives an insight into his research on organizational development. In addition, the author even moves back up to 100,000 years. He assigned a color to each of the epochs and characterized them precisely. This is how we start our journey through time of over 100,000 years of organizational development. I will only go into the individual phases of development very briefly…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Agile companies and holocracy

Agility is now more than just a phenomenon in IT. Agility has long established itself outside of IT, in some cases even throughout the company. The first IT service providers are trying to present themselves as agile companies and are introducing a concept called “holocracy” in the course of this. But what exactly is it all about? As part of the research too Agility in companies, I deal with holocracy as one of the Frameworks for agility. In this article, I would like to describe the principle and its relevance for agility in more detail. The agile company In principle, the agile company is a company that has committed itself to striving to adhere to the agile principles. In terms of research, it is also a company that is agile outside of IT. An overview of agile departments see another article on my blog. However, agility is not yet precisely…