New article: Reinventing a 125yo company - People and patients first

I’m excited to share with you my latest article. A case study of the work we have been doing with Roche Pharmaceuticals.

A couple of highlights:

• Transforming a 125-year-old organization in a regulated industry like biotechnology can seem difficult to achieve, but it is far from impossible.

• The change was co-created with the people in the organization. It was participatory from the beginning.

• The new organization is built on three types of autonomous, self-organizing teams with different time horizons.

• We share the new work practices that helped enable the new structure to work: team charters, 90-day outcomes, action meetings, retrospectives and Integrative Decision Making.

Read the article here: How do you reinvent a successful, 125-year-old company without wrecking what’s made it great?

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