Few month ago I've posted a link to a brief note about 'Fractal Organizations' where Salim Ismail from Singularity University writes for WIRED 'Death of the Corporation – Rise of Exponential Organizations'. Fractal effect for organization's growth we've discovered in GameChangers Program - our top students and alumni start their own research&education programs (including User Experience Track and Data Mining Labs). The mechanics behind is that our participants like approach, values and formats that are GameChangers's core and take them in their own ventures in areas and topics that they are intersted in to learn and get real world expereince.
That small re-post and comments attracted Oleg Stepanov, CEO at JetBrains. He asked what if I do a reasearch about organizational design in fast growing companies known for their advanced culture like Google, GitHub and Yandex. I accepted Oleg's request as for the last 7 years I acted mostly as manager and entrepreneur and switch to a researcher role for a couple of weeks was a delicious opportunity. We've described the reserch as follows and I've started interviews and Quora/GlassDoor investigations.Here are just few findings:1. There are companies that work a lot to oureach their org design and culture. Valve in known for thier New Employee Handbook and open allocattion combined with flat organizational structure, Zappos supports dedicated web site, GitHub gain attention to its open-source collaboration nature.2. Google has plenty of traditional tools from multi-nationals' best practices but implements them with more concious attitude. While its belief in fast decisions and strong core values supported with tools such as OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)and groups such as People and Innovation Lab makes Google significantly ahead of any other high tech mammoth.3. Yandex looks very unmature comparing with any international IT/Internet company, meanwhile they have powerful tools and practices that are worth to learn from and keep the company as an employee with outstanding culture (at least within the Russian scene).4. There's a consulting company that do org design/culture transfer from hightech agile organizations to the rest of the World - Undercurrent. They developed a model that summarizes a common features for such agile and values driven organizations.
5. Hiring is one of the most important is such companies. E.g. Valve is hiring only mature people and people from its community. One of the most strong examples is Palantir co-founded by Peter Thiel - just look at their culture & hiring page.6. Corporate Coach is a profession that becomes more spread and valuable. See e.g. Spotify's job posting. 7. Ogranizational design tools can be very usefull not only for companies - startups, universities, governments, cities will signifantly benefit if they learn from these organiztions.For the Russian page about the research and corresponging seminars please see the tbd2 site.
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