For large scale human development to take place, organizations need to provide an infrastructure that supports the development of their institutions and all its people. Those structures hold, shape, and govern the development of the entire organization. It is the “scaffold” that supports development at an individual, communal or enterprise level.

infrastructure matters

Research over the last few decades has demonstrated how adults can continue to grow and handle more complex issues. Recognizing the importance of individual development, many organizations have invested in their high-performers. While this approach is useful, it doesn’t scale well in larger organizations. 

That’s because organizations are built on social constructs—their company culture, their governance process, global systems, and so on. Unless those social constructs evolve, the behaviors of individuals will always regress back to how things were.

For large scale human development to take place, organizations need to provide an infrastructure that supports the development of their institutions and all its people. We call them Developmental Infrastructures. They are the structures that hold, shape, and govern the development of the entire organization. It is the “scaffold” that supports development at an individual, communal or enterprise level.

Putting in place this developmental infrastructure is what activates development at scale. It is this support system that sustains all daily developmental practices at the heart of a Deliberately Developmental Learning Organization.

OUR ENTERPRISE WORK

• Strategic planning that arises from the desired future
• Design thinking
• Zero based strategic financial thinking
• Scaffold building of new authority and power structure
• Alternative governance structures – council building transversal to the enterprise
• Enterprise creative practices to enhance value proposition
• Designing remuneration systems that adhere to the principals of a DDLO