Predicting the success of self-steering

Prof. Jan De Visch has developed a model and a survey questionnaire to estimate the chances for success of the introduction of self-steering.

“If too many parameters are counter-indicative, it is better to focus on some minor improvements first, before starting the real job of changing towards a form of self-steering”.

His presentation of March 22 contains the ten questions as well as a short summary for each of the questions.

• Download the presentation
• Feel free to contact Jan De Visch directly, if you’d like to receive his questionnaire

Three essentials of self-steering

As we mentioned earlier prof. Jan De Visch held an interesting lecture about self steering, at the event of february 8, organized by the Argonauts and Unizo, and sponsored by Participium.

This is what we learned from prof. Jan De Visch.

There are three essentials of self steering

1. Organize around the customer and organize around the customer’s value streams. The client will dictate your organization.
2. Grow in how your organization develops its internal cooperation. Everyone has two jobs: the main task and the task to cooperate with others. Developing job 2 is key for the future success.
3. In search of the operating model that fits best with the DNA of your organization. This is the canvas Jan De Visch has developed to illustrate the strengths and focus points of all of the new working models. There is no one size fits all … every organization has to look for its own way of working (together).

Download Jan De Visch’ presentation (in Dutch)

Jan de Visch knows when and why self-steering will be successful (or not)

From many years of experience in changing organisational structures professor Jan De Visch from Flanders Business School has gathered a number of indicators for the success of self-steering. “If the stretch is too big, it will certainly not work, so I always recommend starting with one aspect when laying the foundation for self-management”, says De Visch. A short survey suffices to quickly assess whether your organization is ready to start with self-steering.

That was the subject of the evening session about the chances of success with regard to introducing self-management. This evening session is part of a series on self-management organized by The Argonauts. Another session on how to recruit, grow and retain self-managed employees follows 31st May. The focal point of this is a two-day bus trip in October through a number of companies that have successfully introduced self-management. Participium supports these sessions because we take the subject seriously and think about introducing self-management in our own company.

Download Jan’s presentation (Dutch pdf)