Creating Agile Organizations (CAO) Circle overview

Create the future

Design for Strategic Agility

Stuck with a framework that doesn’t fit your organization? Develop a tailored operating model that evolves with your organization.

Overwhelmed by too many framework options? Simplify the transformation journey with a context specific, capability-driven approach.

No visible improvements from your transformation investment? Design your organization to align and support your strategic goals.

Coaches providing ‘answers’ without understanding your organization’s dynamics? Study context and strategic needs to successfully apply guidelines, axioms, and principles.

Teams feeling disempowered? Drive meaningful improvements and empower your teams.

Create an agile framework to your specific needs by leveraging axioms, principles, and proven guidelines

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the cao approach overview

Watch the 3 min overview of the Creating Agile Organizations approach by Cesario Ramos.

Evolve your agile organization design

Curious about creating your own agile organization? Read the story below: “evolving your agile organization model.” Broken into four short posts, you’ll follow product director Sara and Agile Coach Kim as they create their model.

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Part 1

“Breaking Free: A Product Director’s Quest for Change and New Capabilities“ Sara explores the impact adaptability has on current thinking and organization design.

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Part 2

“Ditch your framework and evolve your own“ Sara learns practical tips about ditching her current framework and adopting a systemic approach to evolve her own.

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Part 3

“What are the detailed steps for building my framework? – the structure” tackles the challenge of defining your group, and its relationships with other departments. You’ll find tips on how to incorporate middle management roles.

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Part 4

“Middle Management’s role in Appraisals?” explores the details of how to do appraisals and the role of management.

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The creating agile organizations approach

Foundational concepts:

Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking supports you with a holistic approach to problem-solving that seeks to understand the entire system.

Optimize for adaptiveness

Speed of delivery can be easily “sold” to management. But speed is not enough to be Agile at the organizational level.

Agile organizational design

There are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices.

An agile adoption approach

Don’t make the mistake of viewing Agile as just a set of tools and techniques for your teams.

Coaching for change

Are you ready to become a successful change agent? Let’s dive into the world of Coaching for Change!

Applying the concepts:

Preparing the product group

Are you ready to kickstart your transformation journey? In this section, we’ll show you how to do just enough preparation to ensure a successful start.

Launching the product group

Are you getting ready to launch your product group’s first iteration? It’s an exciting time, but it can also be nerve-wracking.

Coaching teams

In this section, we share how to guide team development. We first share conditions that support effective team growth. Next, we delve into characteristics you can expect to see in Agile teams.

Guiding the product ownership

As a Product Owner you’re responsible for navigating the choppy waters, steering the direction of the product, and keeping everyone on board motivated.