UNFIX
Build your own way of working!
Gain in flexibility with unFIX!
Created by Jurgen Appelo, unFIX is a flexible and scalable organizational design model, akin to a set of LEGO™ bricks, intended to help companies navigate our constantly evolving world. By combining principles from lean and agile models, unFIX enables the creation of autonomous, interconnected, and highly adaptive teams, fostering a network structure. Our experts use this model to reinvent organizational structures to promote continuous innovation and an enhanced human experience.
A STRONG
— Organization design using unFIX
BeTomorrow is the first and, to date, the only French company having a partnership with the unFIX Company and its unFIX organizational design model. We excel at transforming your structures into networks of autonomous and adaptive teams. Through our approach, we help you explore, prototype, and implement the unFIX best suited solutions for your specific needs. We, together, co-create a dynamic and resilient organization that is ready to meet tomorrow's challenges, and to provide an enriching human experience.
Understanding the unFIX model: structures for autonomous teams, continuous innovation, and improved human experience
Mastering the unFIX model is essential to transform an organization into a dynamic network of autonomous and adaptive teams. By combining lean and agile principles, unFIX enables the creation of flexible organizational structures, fostering continuous innovation and a better human experience. BeTomorrow guides you through the implementation stages of this model, from your current organization’s analysis and understanding, to deploying and refining the chosen new practices and structures. With unFIX, we help you leverage local autonomy and global coordination, simplify your processes, and foster leadership within your teams.
Exploring initiatives and objectives: strategic alignment and agile execution
Aligning your initiatives and objectives through a clear strategy is crucial for the success of your organization. BeTomorrow uses the unFIX model to help you define strategic objectives and break them down into concrete and actionable initiatives. We support you in formulating tailored roadmaps, validating hypotheses through prototyping and experimentation, and in spreading learnings on the large scale. By promoting collective decision-making, and effective tension management, we ensure that each initiative significantly contributes to achieving your overall goals.
Optimizing product management: from ideation to implementation
Product management requires an agile and flexible approach to fit market changes and customers needs. With unFIX, BeTomorrow helps you create autonomous and accountable product teams, able to swiftly innovate and to deliver high-quality solutions. We implement continuous customer feedback processes to ensure a constant flow of valuable product improvements. We also help you balance simplicity and complexity to maximize efficiency. Thanks to our expertise, we transform your ideas into concrete achievements, while guaranteeing an exceptional customer experience.
Fostering innovation and ideation: boost creativity and experimentation
Innovation and ideation are at the heart of any modern organization's success. BeTomorrow uses the unFIX model to foster an environment prone to creativity and experimentation. We help your teams quickly test new ideas, and iterate from the received feedback. By promoting a culture of continuous learning, and by simplifying processes, we foster innovation and ensure that your products and services remain spearheads of the industry.
UNFIX: EXPLORE THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF FEEDBACK!
BeTomorrow has created a feedback map, enabling you to discover the different types of feedback, their crucial role in communication and how to use them effectively. Optimize your professional exchanges, perfect your interactions and unleash your organization's collective intelligence with these resources now!
- 11 detailed feedback templates
- A cartography designed to help you give effective feedback
- Practical recommendations for giving feedback at specific times
YOUR TEAM— OF EXPERTS
At BeTomorrow, we firmly believe in the power of unFIX. That's why we first experimented with it for our own teams before using it to manage our clients' products and projects. This dual approach ensures that each customer benefits from proven practices, tailored to his specific needs. With BeTomorrow and the unFIX model, you can reinvent your organization using both your experience and learnings, rather than transforming it. This way, your organization will be human, efficient, and ready to meet tomorrow's challenges.
OUR PROCESS
—TO IMPLEMENT YOUR UNFIX PROJECTS
By following this structured and collaborative process, BeTomorrow helps you rethink your organization as a dynamic and adaptable environment, ready to meet future challenges with confidence and creativity. The unFIX model, with its various tools (product management, ideation, and others), allows you to not only improve your organization to make it dynamic, but also continuously innovate and enhance the human experience.
1. Analyze and understand
We start with an in-depth analysis of your organization. Through interviews, observations, and a detailed examination of existing structures, we identify your challenges and opportunities. The goal is to understand the dynamics in place to offer optimal value exchange with all stakeholders.
3. Prototype and validate hypotheses
We develop and test prototypes, new processes and organizational structures. By trying simple, safe, and quick solutions, we validate hypotheses and identify best practices suited to your specific context.
5. Refine your approach
We prioritize a culture of continuous improvement, where teams adjust and perfect unFIX practices based on feedback and learnings. We strive to reduce unnecessary complexity while maintaining the necessary variety.
2. Co-designing your roadmap
With your teams, we jointly design a clear roadmap based on unFIX principles. We define strategic objectives considering environmental needs and seeking a balance between local autonomy and global coordination. This step aims to provide an exceptional customer experience.
4. Deploy insights
Based on validated prototypes, we deploy new structures and processes across your organization. We ensure that each change promotes leadership and systems management, rather than individual management. Team training and change support are essential to guarantee engagement and motivation.
6. Ensure your autonomy
We ensure that your teams have the skills and tools necessary to maintain and improve new practices autonomously. This step includes documenting best practices and establishing continuous support mechanisms.
1. Analyze and understand
We start with an in-depth analysis of your organization. Through interviews, observations, and a detailed examination of existing structures, we identify your challenges and opportunities. The goal is to understand the dynamics in place to offer optimal value exchange with all stakeholders.
2. Co-designing your roadmap
With your teams, we jointly design a clear roadmap based on unFIX principles. We define strategic objectives considering environmental needs and seeking a balance between local autonomy and global coordination. This step aims to provide an exceptional customer experience.
3. Prototype and validate hypotheses
We develop and test prototypes, new processes and organizational structures. By trying simple, safe, and quick solutions, we validate hypotheses and identify best practices suited to your specific context.
4. Deploy insights
Based on validated prototypes, we deploy new structures and processes across your organization. We ensure that each change promotes leadership and systems management, rather than individual management. Team training and change support are essential to guarantee engagement and motivation.
5. Refine your approach
We prioritize a culture of continuous improvement, where teams adjust and perfect unFIX practices based on feedback and learnings. We strive to reduce unnecessary complexity while maintaining the necessary variety.
6. Ensure your autonomy
We ensure that your teams have the skills and tools necessary to maintain and improve new practices autonomously. This step includes documenting best practices and establishing continuous support mechanisms.
NICOLAS PASCAUD
Coach Agile
In an ever-changing world, an organization's ability to adapt quickly is essential. BeTomorrow uses unFIX to strengthen your company's resilience by helping you implement continuous improvement practices, ensuring effective coordination and eliminating unnecessary complexity.
Use cases
— unFIX unleashed
Tension and conflict management
With unFIX, organizations can establish effective mechanisms to manage tensions and conflicts within teams. Using the “Forum Types” creates safe spaces to openly discuss problems, find collaborative solutions, and strengthen team cohesion, which is crucial for the smooth running of product initiatives and activities.
Continuous feedback and improvement
The unFIX model upholds a culture for continuous feedback, which is essential for products' continuous improvement. Using the “Crew Types” fosters regular and constructive feedback about ongoing initiatives, while calling on “Base Types” provides an environment where members feel safe sharing their opinions and suggestions, allowing for adaptations to product development goals and activities.
Innovation and ideation
unFIX promotes innovation by creating flexible and autonomous structures that spur creativity in developing products. Teams are encouraged to experiment and iterate quickly on new ideas and features, validating hypotheses and adjusting solutions based on feedback, which stimulates continuous innovation and product objectives fulfillment.
Product management and coordination
With unFIX, product management becomes more fluid and agile. The “Turf Types” allow for clearly defining areas of responsibility and for coordinating efforts between different teams, ensuring better synchronization and efficiency in product development initiatives and activities, which in turn, contributes to achieving the company's objectives.
Collaborative decision-making
The unFIX model implements collaborative decision-making processes, reducing bottlenecks and increasing responsiveness in product management. The “Forum Types” and “Crew Types” enable teams to make quick and informed decisions on product initiatives and activities, involving all relevant stakeholders to meet the expected objectives.
Organizational adaptation and resilience
unFIX helps organizations become more resilient by allowing them to adapt quickly to market changes and new product requirements. By reducing unnecessary complexity and promoting local autonomy, companies can better respond to unforeseen challenges and seize emerging opportunities, thus ensuring the success of initiatives and achieving product objectives.
FAQ
— unFIX
What makes unFIX apart from other agile models?
unFIX stands out by its flexibility and adaptability. Unlike other agile models that can be rigid or prescriptive, unFIX allows for the creation of custom structures tailored to the specific needs of each organization. It incorporates elements from various agile models while emphasizing team autonomy, collaborative decision-making, and the balance between local autonomy and global coordination. This makes it a powerful tool for navigating complex and ever-changing environments.
