Hierarchy, Connectivity, and the Temptation of AI By Cesario Ramos. Hierarchy is good. It helps executives see the whole picture. Top management gets information from their management systems, analyzes it, and makes strategic decisions. Even better, thanks to strong...
Trapped in an Operating Model While Culture Eats Your Strategy by Cesario Ramos. If you confuse operating models with org design, you’re likely solving symptoms while the system stays broken What is an Operating Model? One of the clearest and most enduring definitions...
More Teams, More Problems? Fix The Org-Design First. by Cesario Ramos. You have likely been faced with this challenge: “Should we hire more teams to speed up delivery because we are not going to meet our deadlines as things stand today.” Fair question. But...
Aligning the Product, Platform, and Solution Group by Cesario Ramos. Back in the day, I started working with XP teams. Things were great: cracking out code, writing tests, and doing this super cool thing called continuous integration. Yes, there was even this free CI...
Making Strategic Tradeoffs with Clarity by Cesario Ramos. Across organizations of all sizes, I hear the same concerns. They are all expressed different but the common theme is: “Won’t embedded specialists be underutilized?” “Isn’t decentralization too costly or...
Designing for What Your Strategy Demands by Cesario Ramos. You might think agility is something you apply uniformly. And if you are working in a large org, you have probably heard someone propose that “we all should have one way of working”. A standard way...
