Navigating the challenges of succeeding
in a world of digital and AI.
Unlocking the potential of your organization to evolve.
Organizations today are challenged with the task of finding a way forward in a complex world, against an uncertain future and in the face of rapidly changing conditions.
As organizational leaders, you have no doubt experienced this challenge. The typical response is some sort of business transformation (e.g. agile). And yet, how many transformational initiatives effect the kind of changes envisioned?
We seem unable to succeed in navigating the ever-changing business and technology landscape. And meanwhile, most change efforts are adding to the very uncertainty we tried to mitigate. The result: the workplace is no nearer to where we would like it to be.
Now, Generative AI introduces unprecedented levels of disruption. Few of us have any idea how to harness and realize the possibilities they harbor. Rapid technological advancements are exacerbating these issues, leading to fear, stress and a reduction in creative capacity.
How can we navigate these new levels of disruption?
Doubling down on execution of our business strategy alone won’t cut it: Organizations are are ill-equipped to realize those strategies anyways.
In their book The Balanced Scorecard, authors David Norton and Robert Kaplan note that 90% percent of organizations fail to execute their strategies successfully. Why?
“Companies fail or fall short of their potential not because of bad strategies, but because of a failure to implement good ones.”
Leaders are overwhelmed with the day-to-day fires of delivery. Time is oversubscribed and effort is focussed on the here and now, with Strategy usually a poor second to successful project execution. It is estimated that over 50% of capacity is lost on being unable to focus on effectively aligning and deploying strategy.
What’s needed is to be able to align and re-align to the effect that we can make decisions and take responsible action at any give moment.
To do this we need a different quality of sensemaking: Our collective ability to understand, and execute in the face of the ever-changing conditions to which our strategies are a calculated response.
We believe that the primary work of organizational change leaders today
is enabling the emergence of a new collective capacity for complex sensemaking and adaptive action.
Evolvagility provides practices and distinctions that enable a systemic shift in your ability to respond to complexity.
Our unique learning technology enables collective action for unlocking this potential.
This technology works as an interplay across three dimensions of human systems capability:
Inner Development: helping people develop their inner capacity to make sense of situations and events that otherwise seem to make no sense. Reconnecting people to what gives them access to their potential. Creating new personal stands beyond the internal dialog and stories that are holding us back.
Relationship Intelligence: helping people develop new skills in the area of communication, relationship and conversation. For the most part, we are not all that great in this area. And yet, in an environment that calls for rapid response, our capacity for effective communication and relationship is all the more key.
Systems Intelligence: helping people develop their ability to operate effectively within the context of groups and group dynamics--not just cognitively but also emotionally. Again, traditionally we’re not so good at this--but in today’s world we need to be.
Each of these dimensions is strengthened by the development of the other dimensions. They’re like the legs of a stool: you really need all three.
We can learn from our complex problems, not by trying to solve them, but by developing ourselves beyond them.
Who are we, why are we doing this?
We are a global network of organisational change consultants and coaches with a vision. We are dedicated to creating conditions where people can grow greater complexity of mind. To develop human capacity for complex meaning-making in the face of the challenges we see in this world.
Our mission is to help organizations and communities access this capacity now: to respond to a world facing a set of profound questions, about our shared future. We are committed to helping social systems develop this capacity and unlock the potential of their people.
Whilst AI and Sustainability interventions will bring us to a new world of business; in the end, it is our own human capabilities that will determine whether we thrive or just survive. but to thrive, and take advantage of the myriad possibilities this chaos offers us. These are challenges that are going to need be met over the next 5 years.
We are committed to the possibility that humanity’s future course can be altered, but only when we can re-create the terms according to which we collectively make sense of the complex world we find ourselves in.