Key takeaways
- Leadership is key. Ecosystems are changed by the top predators, meaning that while teams do the work, leadership creates an environment that makes this possible. Agile transformations that do not take into account the role of leadership and how the organization is governed are doomed to fail.
- Design transformations as a series of experiments. Start the transformation with the willing, or those that are in most dire need. Prove the concept, then scale out and up. There are no blueprints. Agile transformations are organic, thus the transformation itself needs to be agile too.
- It is not about the framework. Trust your teams to get it right. The National Police has many similar teams that perform the same function in different areas or cities, yet none of them work in exactly the same way. All have tailored their way of working to their specific local circumstances. The same work, vastly different approaches. The same goes for large scaling frameworks, they offer interesting perspectives, but the only scaled framework that is right for your organization, is the framework you have built yourself. Use teams in the trenches to help design the new organization.
- Your ecosystem does not end at the front door. Your organization does not operate in a vacuum. In fact, for your organization to be successful, organizations around yours will need to change as well.
- Earn a t-shirt.
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