Designing a progress-forward organisation
Beyond Value Podcast Episode: Ready to embrace progress-forward thinking? How will you design your organisation to take full advantage? What we’re thinking Unlocking innovation, sales, and growth by taking a progress-forward approach has profound implications for your organisational design. Executives must align their actions, and their organisations, with the principles of progress. It starts with the CEO: CEO: align organisation’s purpose and narrative around enabling progress rather than producing outputs This reframes what the company stands for, how it measures success, and how it motivates its people and partners. Marketing becomes the continual interpreter of Seekers’ evolving progress origins and…
Progress operating model
The progress economy operates through four functional layers: strategic, operational, decision, and foundation. Progress, defined as a move to a more desirable state over time, involves seekers and helpers. Seekers attempt progress using their resources, while helpers provide propositions to assist. Innovation improves progress by reducing hurdles and co-creating value.
Context hierarchy
The progress economy is a hierarchical model of value creation reimagined through making progress. It comprises four key contexts: progress, progress attempts, progress propositions, and service exchange. By understanding progress as the core, resources as fundamental, propositions as solutions, and (mostly) indirect service exchange – helping others progress – as the model fairness, we unlock a dynamic framework for innovation and growth.
