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 diagram
Meet the stage on which the progress economy plays out What we’re thinking The progress diagram allows us to visually represent the progress economy’s key concepts. What is progress, the progress journey, progress attempts, understanding propositions, enacting innovation (progress levers), sales (progress alignment), and more. It shows progress over time on the horizontal access and the vertical axis notionally indicates levels of progress (explaining why progress sought is always to the right and higher than progress origin). Propositions can be similarly drawn on the diagram, although their vertical positioning is not meant to imply any level of progress compared to…
Characteristics
Progress Zip
Execution model
Executing an innovation within an enterprise/ecosystem requires change. The execution model helps us understand that change as well as an enterprise’s capability to execute the change. We can map any innovation to the execution model. Or we can review our current model and hunt for innovations
Progress Resource Mix
Enterprises/ecosystems offer a mix of resources for a seeker to integrate with when attempting to make progress. This service mix comprises a specific combination of: goods, physical resources, systems, and people. Altering the blend of the service mix is a source of innovation.
