In competitive markets businesses need to embrace two sets of capabilities that are often seen as complete opposites – they have to be fast & creative, while also being productive & scale driven. This article explores how businesses can become truly ambidextrous, providing an outline model that helps to create the right balance within the organization. Show
Today’s competitive and highly volatile environment calls for a new kind of flexibility and adaptability. At the same time standardization, efficiency and scale must continue to dominate the CxO agenda in order to deliver against margin and profit expectations. Top executives face the challenge of delivering against both requirements, yet conventional organizational wisdom provides little guidance on how to resolve this trade-off in day-to-day operations. The concept of the ambidextrous organization offers new, tangible and balanced answers to this most pressing management dilemma. Based on insight from our global experience, and in-depth discussions with organizational development leaders, we have created an ambidextrous organization development canvas that helps management answer three simple questions:
The most obvious and tangible benefit of this organizational canvas is that it enables management teams to discuss organization development issues in a common language and make decisions on development aims and organization transformation priorities. Figure 1: Ambidextrous as a new paradigm of organizational successAmazon is a prime example of the new breed of ambidextrous organizations. Always searching for the most innovative business ideas, it strives to deliver on customers’ needs before people realize that they require them. This approach is driven by a well-established culture of invention, curiosity and bias for action. Complementing its creative side, Amazon has also proven itself to be a champion of productivity. Not only its logistics, but also its internal processes for scaling new business models, are tailored for pure efficiency and standardization. If a new approach proves to be successful, it is rolled out rapidly, formally established, monitored and aligned to deliver full productivity. By successfully balancing these two dimensions, Amazon has built a sustainable competitive advantage that has become accepted best practice across multiple industries. Now, not every company can or wants to follow Amazon’s development path, and should not necessarily do so. The art is more in finding actionable organizational answers that specifically address the company’s own business context, taking into account its history, development path, future challenges and strategic targets.
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