silo_strategy.md

How to Succeed in Complex Environments

Start with strategy

Below are four steps to encourage a unified vision within your organization:

1. Work towards a common goal
2. Motivate and incentivize
3. Collaborate and create
4. Execute and measure

⌨️ Activity: Align your organization strategy

Purpose: To identify areas of improvement. (Time: ~20 minutes)

Below are a few questions for each step to help direct discussions:

Four step activity questions:

1. What are some common goals that the organization can work towards?

• What are some early success criteria that would promote sharing the progress towards those goals?

2. What behaviors do you currently incentivize and motivate employees to do?

• How could existing methods be utilized for this initiative?

3. What internal projects come to mind when you think of collaboration (Does not need to be developer focused)?

• What do you think causes that(those) project(s) to be successful?
• What can you use in those projects for this initiative?

4. What would you want to measure to identify the success of the initiative?

Small group discussion: First 10 minutes

1. In small groups, discuss which of the four steps needs improvement.
2. Which step(s) is the organization doing well at?

Collective discussion: Second 10 minutes 3. Share one item that needs improvement and the reasons why. 4. Share one item that the organization is doing well at and the reasons why.