Organic Design Manager

Overview

The role of the manager at Organic Design is tasked with formulating the Organic Design strategy in close collaboration with the Organic Design Director and communicating it to all stakeholders to ensure alignment and encourage feedback and improvement.

System specification

In addition, the manager is required to specify the requirements for the Organic Design system and ensure that improvements in technology are implemented to ensure closer alignment with the Platform specification.

Alignment between goals and activities

In terms of "vertical alignment", the manager ensures a clear flow and sequence between purpose and principles, vision, vision, goals, departments and projects within the organisation. This allows the stakeholders to see and understand which high level goals are being acted upon, as well as how day-to-day tasks are supporting the high level goals.

Internal team communications

The manager is also expected to ensure that the system supports all group activities, such as meetings and work on projects and that feedback is responded to, and that team members are generally on the same page and roles and responsibilities are clear.

External partner communication

Using the agreed-upon Organic Design strategy as a guide, the manager communicates with external groups to build support and gather feedback on the Organic Design strategy. The current aims of this process are to achieve endorsement and validation of the strategy or the improvement of the technical aspects of the strategy, depending on the skill-set of the external party.

Skill-set required

Given that Organic Design is a virtual organisation, the role of the manager requires not only a deep understanding of OD principles as described in vision and manifesto, but requires a skill-set that draws upon project management, business analysis and content management.