LEADERSHIP & ORGANISATIONS - Organisational Development/Excellence, Managing People and Motivating Individuals

Types of Organisations

• Ambidextrous Organisations (Wiki)
  • Definition:
    • refers to an organization’s ability to be efficient in their management of today’s business and also adaptable for coping with tomorrow’s changing demands.
  • Origin and Development
    • Duncan (1976) was the first to use the term organizational ambidexterity.[2] However, it was March’s (1991) article, “Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning” that has been credited for developing and generating greater interest in this concept, especially in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
  • Ambidextrous Models
    • Established companies simply lack the flexibility to explore new territories.
    • Suggestions for these companies
      • Big companies should adopt a venture capital model- funding exploratory expeditions but otherwise not interfering too much with their operations.
      • Use of cross-functional teams to achieve breakthrough innovations.
      • A company may be able to alternate between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation and exploration at different time periods.[4]
  • 2 Forms of Organsational ambidexterity
    • Architectural or structural ambidexterity
      • uses dual structures and strategies to differentiate efforts towards exploitation and exploration.
    • Contextual ambidexterity
      • uses behavioural and social means to integrate exploitation and exploration, even at the organizational unit level.
      • Senior managers may be key for facilitating the the context and social base for ambidexterity.
    • Ambidextrous organizations require significant amount of mobilization, coordination, and integration activities to maintain both exploitation and exploration,
    • Jansen et al. (2009) found that the informal, social integration of the senior team as well as the cross-functional interfaces of the formal organization contribute to the success of structural differentiation on organizational ambidexterity.[7]
• Learning organization
• Knowledge organization

Communities

• Community of innovation
• Community of practice (CoPs)
• Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP)
• Network of Practice (NoPs)

Unconference

(Wiki)

• A participant-driven meeting. Related to Open Space Technoloy
• The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization.
• Examples: Foo Camp, BarCamp, Bloggercon, and Mashup Camp
• Facilitation Styles
  • Barcamp
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Fishbowl (conversation)
  • Knowledge Cafe
  • Lightning Talks
  • Open Space Technology
  • Pecha Kucha
  • Speed Geeking
  • TeachMeet
  • World Café
• Organizational memory
• Organizational engineering
• Organisational Culture
• Organisational Socialisation or Onboarding (Wiki)

GUIDES

4 Ways to make people work with you, happily, loyally, excellently

• Buy in: I believe in what you believe in. 1 is 1. not 1.1 or a.
• Common Ideals: Let's Work Together! 2 is better than 1
• Collaborative Excellence: We contribute meaningfully (value add) together. 1+1=3
• Collective Flourishing: Together, we are happy and proud. towards infinity!

3 Professional Sectors/ Areas

(Comparison Analysis)

1. Public Sector/Civil Service
2. Private Sector/ Businesses
3. Social Sector/ Charities/ Not for Profit, NGOs

2 Metaphysical Worlds or Domains

1. Online
2. real-world

1 Main Concept: Group --> Organisation --> Communities

Enterprise Software

• Project Management
  • List of Project Management Software (Wiki)
  • Comparison of Project Management Software (WIki)
• List of Concept and Mind Mapping Software (Wiki)
• ERP
  • List of ERP software packages
  • List of ERP vendors
  • Free ERP Software (Wiki)
• Accounting software
• Supply chain management software

1. With People with vaguely agrees with you or have similar ideas: Goal is to convert a Loose Group of associations, into an Organisation with common goals and practices, Into Communities where people thrive with each other.
2. With People who disagree with you or have dis-similar ideas: Goal is to have Buy-in.