Kicking off the new year 2025 in style, Niels Pflaeging of Red42 is sharing brand new research through the BetaCodex Network in early January. It's the BetaCodex Network's 22st research paper since its foundation in 2008. The paper Relative Targets: Patterns in Practice outlines 12 key patterns in transforming organizational performance systems - from command-and-control to decentralized and democratic. The paper is being published on 06 Jan 2025 - download is now available for free and without registration.
Niels Pflaeging says about this publication: “This is the first BetaCodex Network paper about the Relative Targets topic since 2009. It has really been a while! Which might seem odd, as Relative Targets is so close to my own roots as a finance manager/corporate controller, and to the network's roots. In a way, with this 22nd paper we are reconnecting to a core theme on which the BetaCodex was founded upon. What's new in this paper and what makes the content really fresh is that we describe the Relative Targets approach through the lens of real-world, ”time-boxed" transformation. We are not looking at it through cases like Handelsbanken's or Buurtzorg's. Not as abstract theory, either. But as something that is pulled off within a time fame of weeks. As something that we have achieved with clients many times since 2019.
Niels Pflaeging adds: "The 12 patterns that we identified and that I describe in the paper are presented in the same sequence in which we tackle them during Beta transformations, and in which every organization undertaking transformation will have to tackle them. Apart from that, there are insights to be found in the paper that we recently stumbled over in our consulting work. As usual, the research is presented in a colorful, richly illustrated way. With very short and crisp, no-nonsense texts. I hope that readers - practitioners, consultants, and academics alike, will enjoy the format and the contents of this paper!"
Relative Targets: Patterns in Practice is formatted as a PDF, like all BetaCodex Research Papers – in a way that makes it attractive to read, to use in one's work, and to share. It should also come handy as a teaching resource. Read and download the paper, free of charge, here betacodex.org/white-papers
Relative Targets is an open source, free social technology created by Niels Pflaeging, published under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license from Creative Commons, accessible under: www.relativetargets.com
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