Figure 3
The figure is titled “MAJOR ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES”. It contains ten main categories arranged vertically along the left side, each followed by a list of corresponding points on the right. The first category is “Purpose”, which includes three main points: “Organization seen as a living entity with its own evolutionary purpose”, “The concept of competition is irrelevant; ‘competitors’ are embraced to pursue purpose”, and “Practices to listen into the organization’s purpose”, followed by four subpoints: “Everyone a sensor”, “Large group processes”, “Meditations, guided visualizations, etc.”, and “Responding to outside prompting”. The second category is “Strategy”, which includes one point: “Strategy emerges organically from the collective intelligence of self-managing employees”. The third category is “Innovation”, which includes two points: “Inside out: offer is defined by purpose”, and “Guided by intuition and beauty”. The fourth category is “Supplier management”, which includes one point: “Suppliers chosen also by fit with purpose”. The fifth category is “Purchasing and investments”, which includes two points: “Anybody can spend any amount provided advice process is respected”, and “Peer-based challenging of team’s investment budget”. The sixth category is “Marketing and sales”, which includes two points: “Marketing as a simple proposition: this is our offer to the world (inside out)”, and “No sales targets”. The seventh category is “Planning, budgeting and controlling”, which includes five points: “Based on ‘sense and respond’”, “No or radically simplified budgets, no tracking of variance”, “Workable solutions and fast iterations instead of searching for ‘perfect’ answers”, “Constant sensing of what’s needed”, and “No targets”. The eighth category is “Environmental and social initiatives”, which includes two points: “Integrity as intrinsic yardstick: What is the right thing to do?”, and “Distributed initiative taking, everyone senses the right thing to do”. The ninth category is “Change management”, which includes one point: “‘Change’ no longer a relevant topic because organizations constantly adapt from within”. The final category is “Crisis management”, which includes two points: “Everyone involved to let the best response emerge from collective intelligence”, and “If advice process needs to be suspended, scope and time of suspension is defined”.Major organisational practices of teal organisations. Source: Laloux (2014)