Slow Growth - Software Makers & Society
The last decades saw young, technology-enabled companies beat huge, traditional enterprises across all market sectors. We saw these companies create whole new business categories out of (apparent) thin air. The phenomenon was so remarkable, a whole new category for how fast companies can grow was created: hypergrowth.
Research10 has gone far into making tangible those aspects of company culture that are shared by high-performing organisations.
Often these companies operate in small, cross-functional teams with end-to-end ownership, highly autonomous in their daily operations, but also highly aligned to shared and understood business goals. The generative type of organisational culture as outlined by Westrum11 provides a broad but actionable description of the types of corporate culture we should be striving for.
High performing organisations are obsessively disciplined about their metrics, usually choosing a specific one – a ‘North Star Metric’12 – to track overall business performance. Teams then break this metric down to its smallest components in detailed KPI trees13