Ultimate List of Organizational Design Resources | How to enable Adaptiveness

Here I share a list of resources that have helped in my journey to uncover better approaches to organisation design. In particular, how design can help increase an organisations disposition towards adaptiveness (aka agility).

The resources have been broken down by Category. Each category asks a big question you will likely need to answer during your Organizational Design efforts. For each question is a list of resources which have helped me answer the same question.

It is my hope that these resources will help new and experienced Organisational Design Professionals uncover new ways to enable adaptiveness.

Understanding Context - Where are we?

• Wardley Mapping [Article]

• Cynefin [Video]

• Systems Thinking [Artcile]

• Theory of Constraints [Article]

• Geoffrey Moore Three Horizons [Article]

Defining Products & Value Streams - What should we organise around?

• What is a Product? [Article]

• Product Definition Canvas [Tool]

• Aligning by Value Streams [Article]

• Moving from Projects to Products [Book]

• Project Myopia [Book]

Organisation Structure - How should we organise?

• Sociotechnical Architecture [Artcile]

• Team Topologies [Book]

• Strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) [Video]

• Feature Teams [Article]

• Team of Teams [Book Summary]

• Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners [Article]

• 12 Organisation Design Principles that embrace Complexity [Article]

Finances - How should we manage the budget?

• Beyond Budgeting [Article]

• Adopting Transparent Pay [Article]

Skill Development - How can develop talent?

• Ultralearning Principles [Article]

• Learning Organisation [Book]

Management - What is the role of Management?

• Servant Leadership [Video]

• Management 3.0 [Article]

• Effective Executive [Article]

• Empowerment Trap [Article]

• Deciding How to Decide [Article]

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging - How can we enable and embrace diversity?

• Rebel Ideas - The Power of Diverse Thinking [Book]

• Systems Thinking and Race [Article]

Strategy Deployment and Alignment - How do we deploy and align people around the strategy?

• Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) [Article]

Communities of Practice/Guilds - How do we build communities?

• How to Build Successful communities of practice [Book]

What would be on your Ultimate Organisation Design list?

I'd love to hear the resources you have found helpful in your organisation design work. Comment below or on Twitter