Designing an operating system for decentralised decision-making
Objective
How might we cut down the time taken to update teams and managers?
Maintain pace of innovation as they scaled the business to become the UKs 2nd largest energy retailer?
Align teams to focus on what matters
Approach
Contextual enquiry
Atomic habits - make it easy, make it fast, make it satisfying
Challenges
Scaling a startup from 1000 employees to over 5000
To encourage employees to form a new habit of publishing their progress, we created check-ins
Outcome
CEO Stephen Fitzpatrick £3m in productivity by reducing progress meetings
Data visualisation that assigns a RAG status based on the key results' value against the target
Distribute decision making and transform the companufrom a monlitcic organisation to a group of smaller cross functional goal aligned teams