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Align Your Org: Worksheet
Align Your Org: Worksheet
WORKSHEET
Align
your org
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Whether you work in a large corporation or are a small start up, as you iterate your
circular business and look to scale, there will be implications for how you, your
team, your company and partners in your system need to operate. Changing
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established organisations can be hard but not impossible if you utilise the design
thinking processes to help shift the status quo.
STEPS
Using the Organisational Design Worksheet, consider each of the Devise some “experiments” or prototypes to test your
1 areas and answer the questions that you feel will be priority as you 4 organisational changes alongside the product or service. Ensure
move forward. Successful organisations align themselves with their that this test requires minimal effort—focus instead on learning and
user proposition and how they contribute to the system they are iterating. (For example, hire in new capabilities on a short term basis
part of, not just their own internal needs. to test whether these are the right skills you need before
committing to full-time team members).
Create a value proposition by conducting research with employees
2 and internal stakeholders to spot opportunities to change ways
5 Continue this process to deliver to your value proposition and the
of working. system you are part of. Remember, organisation design will
constantly evolve and be as iterative as your product or service
design. The Continuous Learning Loops activity can help you make
Create some organisational hypotheses to test out your ideas.
3 (For example, “How might we develop a flexible, scalable
sense of your learnings as you go.
WORKSHEET
INCENTIVES STRATEGY
Align
PROCESS
How might you redesign all your Consider how to motivate teams Is your strategy on course?
in continuous design loops as the
your org
internal processes to align with i ‘job’ is never done Refer back to Business Model
serving your users?
Canvas and repeat the
Co-create new processes with How might you celebrate exercise with new data.
those operating them and those learnings, and releases of iterated
A4 Course correct if necessary.
receiving them (internal or products?
external).
Consider each of the How might you work with partners
areas on this worksheet in the chain to give your designers
and answer the questions different perspectives?
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