Syngineering will help your organization gain agility and thrive In today's complex and volatile world.
Syngineering will help your organization gain agility and thrive In today's complex and volatile world.
Consulting, Industrial & organizational psychology, Organizational development
A New Comprehensive Framework for Building Agile Practices into Any Organization Regardless of Its Culture.
In the disruptive volatility and complexity of today’s business world, yesterday’s problem-solving is no longer adequate. Organizations must have agility: people and process capabilities that can respond quickly to shifts in the external world. Syngineering, the term the authors have coined for how to meet this challenge, combines the best aspects of human dynamics, organization design, and the applications of technology. It replaces expert problem-solving with ‘design thinking’ and several other agile practices where employees collaborate in questioning, experimenting, and learning what’s needed as they develop meaningful and sustainable solutions.
The book provides a framework and processes that can analyze the current environment and deliver the most effective design and change approach to fit the desired strategy and culture. Case studies from three different culture changes bring the methods to life. This practical and hands-on guide is for anyone working to improve organizational agility and performance. Gain agility, align and thrive.
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Whether you are leading, sponsoring, or participating in corporate change, Syngineering can help you understand the specifics of your organization’s circumstances and determine the right approach to build in agility. The three case studies reveal the wort’s, sacred cows and reality that is rarely revealed, and which brings the book to life. They span a wide range: a family-centered retail business network that adapted the process to the culture and circumstances; a multi-national joint venture commodity producer whose leaders posed the greatest threat to the effort; and a business-to-business public sector IT provider whose leader departed before the finish line. The rich and concise discussion of their cases highlights how the approach works in the real world. Chocked full of practical tools with solid guidance throughout. From the common-sense idea of using the organizations’ own language to the critical relationship between culture and design, as the 4 detailed approaches for change for each of 4 generic cultures found around the world, sets this book apart from others. ~ Naomi Stanford, Author of Organization Design: The Practitioner’s Guide, Organization Design: Engaging with Change, Organization Design, the Collaborative Approach, The Economist Guide to Organization Design, Corpora
Syngineering is one of the first books, if not the first, to integrate key developments in the fields of organization design and development, agile methodology, human dynamic principles of synergy, and change management into a practical case tested methodology. Key concepts followed with practical advice and methods will help a manager or design practitioner who wants to improve their organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. As digital technology pushes customer driven Information processing to the operating model, this book shows the important contribution of organization design to create an agile operating model. The authors provide a practical guide for managers and practitioners to see how all the pieces fit together to create organizational agility. ~ Stu Winby, Spring Networks
The authors tackle a defining challenge of our times, with the wisdom of experience: how to instill the dynamic capacities of living systems into our static machine-age organizations, to reap the benefits of agility, continuous learning, responsiveness, and the many other capacities our world now demands of our companies. ~ Brian J. Robertson, HolacracyOne, Author, “Holacracy”
