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Self-organizing teams, transparency, and leaderless organizations have captured the imagination of the business community, but the paradigm of traditional hierarchy still dominates. What seems to hold us back are the huge unknowns of change: what happens when you restructure around these new principles?
This session describes CoreMedia's adventures in tossing out their organizational chart, redefining roles and teams, and decentralizing decision-making. They have defined personnel and technical management as discrete areas, and all staff members are assigned to one of the three Competence Centers. The directors of these centers give staff regular feedback, foster personal development, manage the career models and also oversee the assignment of staff to projects based on their specialist skills. Projects themselves are offered as "invitations to tender" and in regular "Waterhole meetings" any member of the staff can present an idea to work on. These are just a few examples of the structures of this self-organized company. They've made some bold moves and have real-world results to share with you. But one result upfront - creativity has boosted throughout the company.
The second part of the session is an open discussion with attendees about what has worked in other organizations and the challenges and benefits of evolving and/or revolutionizing your organization. Attendees will receive the results of research on Enterprise 2.0 acceptance, challenges and tools in German companies.
Additional Speaker : Nicole Dufft
I think Soren and Nicole just scratching the surface. Soren make it sounds like that CoreMedia have been killing there org.chart, there methods and that they now is wholly self-organized and that is a kind of non-management. I think that that in itself is a new kind of central idé, a new kind of management. A new kind of central method. Central idées and central methods for letting go and building collective intelligence and awearness.
Henrik
Henrik Jonsson