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Capture business opportunities faster then your rivals.
What if your organization was designed to deliver on your strategy, not work against it?
Design For Strategic Agility
Creating Agile Organizations (CAO) is a systemic approach designed to help you align your organizational design with your strategic goals. It offers a clear path to evolve a tailored operating model—one that fits your unique context and enables strategy execution.
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Certified Training
Elevate your skills to evolve your own Agile operating model for lasting change.
Our courses are built on decades of hands-on experience and draw directly from the insights from the book Creating Agile Organizations, providing practical, field-tested strategies for real-world application.
With CAO, organizations evolve their own Agile framework to enhance agility, improve adaptability, and ensure their design supports long-term strategic success.
Designing Agile Organizations™
Who Should Attend?
Leaders that design for strategic agility.
This 2-day course offers design and thinking tools to evolve Agile organizations aligned with strategy.
Guiding Agile Organizations™
Who Should Attend?
Change leads that support an agile transformation effort.
This 3-day workshop offer tools and coaching skills for Agile transformations: product, structure, processes, and people.
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Thoughtful, experienced guides—here to help you shape strategy that makes a difference.
BENEFITS OF CAO
Improved Strategy Execution
CAO aligns teams, priorities, and organizational design with clear strategic goals.
Enhanced Flexibility and Responsiveness
It builds the capability to adapt quickly to evolving market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies.
High-Performing Groups
CAO creates effective groups driving innovation, accountability, and outcomes aligned with business goals.
Tailored Agile Operating Model
Developing a customized Agile organizaion design that fits the organization’s unique challenges and opportunities.
The CAO guide
Navigating agile organization design with the free CAO guide.
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The CAO book
By Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko.
Covers agile transformation, systems thinking, organization design guides, team and group design, processes, product definition, and rewards alignment.
Why You Need This Book:
Foundations: Master design, systems thinking, and proven change guidelines.
Practical Tools: Scale agile, launch products, groups, and teams effectively.
Start With Your Strategic Focus: Define the objectives that matter most for your business. Then identify the desired capabilities you believe are needed to deliver on those objectives.
Identify The Capability Gaps: Study your organization to identifiy capability gaps and prioritize the right improvements. This knowledge is crucial to build a foundation for design decisions.
Loosely Couple Products Groups to Build Resilience: Design to minimize coupling between product groups so they can act independently. This makes your organization more adaptable, reduces bottlenecks, and builds organizational resilience for whatever comes next.
Launch Your Product Groups in Phases: Gradually transition to your new operational model through phased launches of your product groups. Test the design in practice, learn from real-world results, and adjust as you go.
Measure Capability Development Not Only Outcomes: Track how well your organization closes capability gaps. This ongoing assessment helps maintain your focus on continuous improvement and strategic alignment.
Strategic Management
This approach is not just about implementing agile frameworks; it’s about evolving your organizational design to develop the capabilities needed for better strategy execution.
Experience reports
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12 Organization Design Guides
Principles of CAO
Context-Driven Approach
Tailor organizational design to your unique context and strategic goals.
Capability Driven Design
Identify and address critical capability gaps to align with and achieve strategic objectives.
Design Product Groups Around Value Creation
Organize groups around delivering goods and services to maximize customer value and impact.
Loosely Coupled Product Groups For Resilience
Enable group independence to boost resilience and support strategic contributions.
Use Shared Services for Support and Standards
Provide support and enforce standards without embedding critical units of product groups.
Optimize for System-Wide Performance
Prioritize overall system performance, even if it requires compromising individual unit efficiency.
Design For Adaptability
Minimize workflow delays, transaction costs, and switching costs to enhance adaptability.
Design for Emergent Coordination
Improve collaboration and decision-making by minimizing large meetings, promoting focused, purposeful discussions.
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