Organizational Effectiveness

May 10, 2023
The goal of an Agile Coach is support building up resilience
Published by Chris Kruppa on May 10, 2023

You may not need an Agile Coach

If your Agile coach is seen as Agile police or is busy babysitting your teams, your Agile transformation may have failed. Read here, how Agile Coaches can provide value.
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January 11, 2023
Role of Company leaders in an Agile journey to HIgh-Performance Teams
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 11, 2023

Harnessing High-Performance Teams Through Agile Principles

Imagine, you could change your organization towards High-Performance Teams yourself - without any external organization, freelancer, or consultants such as myself.
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January 5, 2023
What is Agile? True Agile is rarely visible in it's process
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 5, 2023

Agile: More than Just a Framework

What is Agile? Many organizations think, it is about a certain framework. But nothing is further from the truth.
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December 5, 2022
men and women having a meeting
Published by Chris Kruppa on December 5, 2022

Why You Need to be Agile

Don't know, why you need to be Agile? Read, how more organizational structures can help you to respond to change.
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November 29, 2022
The Future of Agile is depending on how we handle change.
Published by Chris Kruppa on November 29, 2022

The Future of Agile

Agile is everywhere and as a result, individuals and organizations are increasingly fatigue about this term. Read in our newest article, why “Agile” and it’s related frameworks might be irrelevant.
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November 7, 2022
Agiel At Risk
Published by Chris Kruppa on November 7, 2022

Agile at Risk

Agile is at risk: Frameworks, which prescribe the way of working, have claimed Agile as their own. Let's claim back the Agile Manifesto.
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April 5, 2022
Published by Chris Kruppa on April 5, 2022

How to use Scalar Framing for an Agile Transformation

How do you implement and roll out an Agile Transformation in your company? Too often, people just follow frameworks. This article is an attempt to change the questions, what agility would mean for each flight level of an organization.
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March 14, 2022
Scaling Agile is often about changing context on different levels
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 14, 2022

Scaling Agile – Don’t scale; but reframe

As we already know, organizations worldwide realize that they need to DO things differently. They create new processes and new workflows on how they should collaborate […]
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September 22, 2021
man on running field
Published by Chris Kruppa on September 22, 2021

Are you ready for Agile?

Many organizations are embarking onto an Agile journey. But often, organizations plan an ongoing journey like a project. But is that Agile, then?
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August 19, 2021
Published by Nicolas Embleton on August 19, 2021

Culture is an iceberg

When we talk about organizational culture, we often talk only about visible factors because they are easy to influence, but there are invisible factors, too. Read, in this article, which ones they are and why they are important.
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April 16, 2021
Published by Chris Kruppa on April 16, 2021

The Falsifiable Hypothesis

A falsifiable hypothesis helps to determine the success of an experiment in your organization. Read, how you can create one.
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March 31, 2021
Celebrate Learning with a Celebration Grid by Management 3.0
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 31, 2021

Celebrate Failure? Celebrate Learning!

"We need to embrace and celebrate failure; because failure is a good thing" - Read in this article, why failing is not enough and how a simple tool can help facilitate your learning.
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October 5, 2020
Published by Chris Kruppa on October 5, 2020

The role of Leaders in Agile environments

Agile organizations are the future, if we believe McKinsey. For this to happen, the role of Management needs to change. Read here, what you can do to achieve that.
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July 8, 2020
Lean & Toyota Production System changed the world
Published by Quang Bui on July 8, 2020

A Quick Look at Lean from it’s Birthplace

I believe that most of us have already heard about the word ‘lean‘ (or it’s Vietnamese translation ‘tinh gọn’) at least once. Also, we might know […]
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February 19, 2020
Agile is Dead End for many wrong implementations
Published by Chris Kruppa on February 19, 2020

Agile is dead? What is actually an agile organization?

A spectre is haunting the business world – the spectre of agility. Inspired by the opening sentence of Karl Marx – “The Communist Manifesto” Warning: The […]
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July 8, 2019
Organizational Development is like Architecture
Published by Chris Kruppa on July 8, 2019

Organizational Development in 21st century – Meddler’s Game

Organizational Development in the 21st century has been a challenge for many companies. When I talk to C-level or directors, most people are always looking for […]
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March 21, 2019
Innocation & Digitization - Many organisations underestimate their impact
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 21, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 3: Swamped by Digitization & Innovation

As discussed, we at semdi believe, that today’s Managers are overwhelmed because of 3 different swamps. We talked about different complexity areas, different motivations, but also […]
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March 13, 2019
External Self-Concept is important in business teams
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 13, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2.1: Motivation – the external self-concept

As we discussed in the prior article, Motivation can have many faces. In order to motivate our people it is not enough to tell people to […]
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March 4, 2019
Extrinsic Motivation might be less effective as intrinsic
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 4, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2: Swamped by different motivations

Within my engagements on supporting teams and management, people often ask me the same questions: How can I motivate my team? How can I engage them […]
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February 15, 2019
Cooperation in modern world is more compllex
Published by Chris Kruppa on February 15, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 1: Making sense of today’s world

In the last article I described how managers are overwhelmed with the situation in today’s complex environment and described three different swamps and how this image […]
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