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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
9.9.2023
Founding Partner

Forget Katzenbach's Team Performance Curve

Time to retire this dangerously misleading picture! It incorrectly presents teamwork as an optional luxury, hopefully achieved after a slump in performance.

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Ran Nyman
Ran Nyman
23.5.2023
Founding Partner
Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
23.5.2023
Founding Partner

Solving shared assets (SW+HW) development with Floating Platform Teams (FPTe)

Designing an organization that develops shared assets (SW+HW) that are used across several business units is problem many managers face. In this post, we highlight some of the main issues, provide new viewpoints on the design challenges, and present a unique solution to this problem.

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Ran Nyman
Ran Nyman
27.4.2023
Founding Partner
Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
27.4.2023
Founding Partner

Design an Adaptive Team-based Organization

Matrix organization has well-known problems. Combining Back-Front and Modular organization designs gives you options for creating adaptive organization, productive teamwork, and market focus.

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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
8.6.2021
Founding Partner

Cure for Coordination Chaos

Is your organization's productivity declining? You are probably experiencing Coordination Chaos, caused by fragmentation and bureaucracy. How to cure it?

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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
11.7.2020
Founding Partner
Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
20.12.2017
Founding Partner
Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
4.5.2017
Founding Partner
Ran Nyman
Ran Nyman
4.5.2017
Founding Partner

Actionable Fearless Leadership

Our research in Agile Leadership has been maturing from conference presentations to robust workshops, where participants experience the logic behind Scaling Agility.

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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
1.8.2015
Founding Partner
Ran Nyman
Ran Nyman
1.8.2015
Founding Partner

Scaling Agility or Bureaucracy

There are two very different strategies in adopting Agile in a large organisation, horizontal or vertical. In other words, you may take one product first with narrow and deep focus. Or you may focus on the vertical coordination layer, which is often perceived as The Scaling Problem.

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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
9.3.2015
Founding Partner

Organizations learn like horses

Individuals are intelligent. Organisations are not, they are adaptive, just like horses. Organisations learn from reality, not from imagination.

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Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka
6.3.2014
Founding Partner

Everyone has a limited Container

Understanding the emotional container is essential for not only therapists and parents, but all leaders, coaches and senior colleagues.

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