Design Thinking Driven – Adaptive Strategy and Structure

The fact that our business environment is increasingly fast-changing, uncertain and complex doesn’t invalidate the need for strategic thinking (as some now claim) but it does require that it step up a gear. Design Thinking takes your strategies to a new level – the meta-level.

Strategic plans that are premised on a fixed organisational structure and steady goals are more likely to constrain the organisation’s response than empower it. But what is the alternative? How do we make structure and strategy adaptive?

Culturistics’ Strategy Matrix creates a living model of your organisation and its potential. It utilises Design Thinking as the means to consider multiple simultaneous structural options to meet different scenarios. This ensures your people are supported by the best that the organisation can bring to bear – always, continuously, adaptively.

Furthermore, Culturistics’ Strategy Matrix enables you to map out the potential impacts of your changing environment. This enables you to identify the configurations that make best use of the opportunities presented. It also enables every group within the organisation to identify how they can best support progress. And it equips them to take ownership for adapting their own practices to suit.

In this way, every part of your business is empowered to utilise all of their energy, insight and creativity. And to do so confident in the knowledge that it is all pulled together by a transparent coordinating logic. A Design Thinking logic that aligns all of the individual efforts into a single coherent force.

Strategy Workshops: We have many decades of experience, supporting leadership teams in their use of the Strategy Matrix. In fact we wrote the original book on the subject (Managing by Design). The experience of the twenty years since have refined our approach, and helped us ensure our clients stay ahead of the curve. For more information, please contact us.