The slide set gives a short overview of the building blocks of Growing Adaptive Organizations. It collects the elements which are needed for an organization to become adaptive, agile, and resilient. It develops a target picture of organizations that are effective and good for their workers and all stakeholders.

1. Growing Adaptive Organizations
Resilience | Learning | Efficiency for a VUCA world
Organisationen für Menschen
Building Blocks

2. Resilient is the new efficient
§ A few years ago, the business world
was more predictable.
In such a world, efficiency is king.
§ Speed of learning, resilience and
adaptivity are new crucial success
factors.
§ Working with knowledge workers
yields new ideas for motivation,
work organization and values.

3. About Me
Growing adaptive Organizations Learning Journey
• Learning is getting modular
eTrainings, Tapas, blended Learning
• Trainings achieve nothing (isolated):
the 70:20:10 rule
• Pull: create a win-win
of strategic skill management
and personal development path
Organizations
for People
Leadership Trainings
Qualification Concepts
Consulting

4. An opinionated view
Organizations that are fit for the future
and fit for human beings
-- Gary Hamel

5. The Adaptive
Organization
Strategy. People.
Structures.
Achieve it
Transformation and
Evolution
Lead it
Focus. Align. Enable.
Empower.
Pitch it
Grow conceptual
understanding
Teach it
Align and enable
Growing Adaptive Organizations
The Scope

6. Origins

7. DACH30 is …
... an exchange group of enterprise
change agents in large companies
... an initiative to share qualification
concepts and standards around
agility
.... several SIGs (special interest
groups) from OKRs to qualification
themes to organizational design

8. 2015 2017 2019 2021
Founded by
four companies
„large companies have
special problems with agility“
Continuous growth
(to ca 20 companies)
„agility becomes mainstream
and gets C-level attention“
more SIGs active
„the community bears fruit“
Agile Mindeststandards
Common skill requirements
for the agile roles
GRADO
Growing Adaptive Organizations
Ideas, hints, travel guides
The Book Agile
A guide for lean-agile
principles for the
enterprise
Ausbildungkatalog
Agile Succcess Metrics
Experiences with OKRs

9. The Adaptive Organization
Building Blocks

11. Context
Who needs and who wants
an adaptive Organization

14. Achieve It
Transformation and Evolution

17. Lead It
Agile Leadership for the
Adaptive Organization

19. About

20. 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/