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Growing Adaptive Organizations
Resilience | Learning | Efficiency for a VUCA world
Organisationen für Menschen
Growing Conceptual Understanding

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Growing Conceptual
Understanding

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The platform wants to provide new methods to access the question of
Designing adaptive organizations.
Because there are different ways you access new concepts:
If you are new to the subject, you want guidance and maybe rules
When you gain practice, your way will become increasingly self-guided
and you may want help in discovering and structuring new knowledge
Once you master a subject, you want opportunities to exchange
experiences and knowledge with peers
Our platform aims to help you along this journey.
How do you acquire and access knowledge

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Start Smart
• The Map
Metaphor
• Story Telling
Dive Deeper
• The Travel
Guide
Metaphor
• Playbooks
Look for
Support
• Big Picture:
conceptual
view
• Tapas,
Nuggets,
Modules
readily
available
Growing Conceptual Understanding
This follows the general idea of a learning journey:
start guided, growing more and more self directed.

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Start Smart Dive Deeper
Look for
Support

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A Map and Travel Reports
Every Transformation Journey is different.
The map might help you to find „your“ way:
Three main categories (continents)
§ Evolving Strategy
§ People and Culture
§ Enabling Structures
Two overarching categories (oceans)
§ Systems Thinking
§ Common Values and Principles
Benefit
§ Change of Perspective
§ Overview, Orientation and Inspiration
§ Revealing Blind Spots

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Start Smart Dive Deeper
Look for
Support

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Proposals out of the Travel Guide
Example Route / Playbook
1. Find the „Why“
2. Common values and principles
3. Learning Mindset
4. The situation determines the
approach
5. As a leader, be commited
6. Slice the elephant – define smaller
deliveries

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Playbook:
Transformation Patterns

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
1. Find the „Why“ for
the Transformation
„How do we are going to see that we are successful“
Perceived Problems
Root Cause

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
2. Common Values and Principles
Attitu
de
Behavi
our
Experi
ence
Values and Principles impact attitude,
mindset and behaviour.
Commonly defined, stable values and
principles act as a „Culture North Star“
that provides orientation and reflection
space during our learning journey.
Attitude and mindset develop over time….
…. on a personal and on an organizational level.

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
Transformation journeys are learning
journeys. None is like the other.
It needs a common understanding that a
feasible solution will develop over time.
Through experimenting and adapting
patterns in our cooperation and
collaboration we will learn and improve
together on our journey.
An iterarative approach will help to find
emerging patterns that will optimize our
work processes.
3. Learning Mindset
Learning is what makes our collaboration more successful

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
4. Approach according to Situation
The situation determines the
approach.
Depending on the problems you
want to solve,
different methodologies and
techniques can be helpful.
Methods will be chosen and applied based on expert knowledge.

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
Leaders‘ commitment
and active participation
are a crucial success
factor
5. As a Leader, be committed, not
only involved

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Helpful Transformation Patterns
If the goal is too big, slice it up.
Smaller pieces/work batches help to
generate focus
deliver in fast iterations and allow for
quick learning and feedback cycles
ensure value-driven outcome.
6. Slice the Elephant

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Start Smart Dive Deeper
Look for
Support

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Big Picture
Modules on the go
eTrainings

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About

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Contents are Creative Commons
Vendors are invited to build upon the
contents
The concepts are not complete:
more stories to be told,
more travel guides,
more nuggets, modules and an
updated Big Picture
more contributors
Current Status and the Future
https://growing-adaptive-
organizations.org/before-you-start/
https://growing-adaptive-
organizations.com/en/adaptive-organization-poster/