Uncover insights into the nine key dimensions for success with fast flow.
Fast flow — The 9 Dimensions
Tasked with unlocking innovation, budget, and time-to-value?
At Conflux, we’ve identified nine key dimensions for success with modern software-enriched services.
Organizations are now, more than ever, under immense pressure to innovate faster, optimize budgets, and reduce time-to-value. As empowering teams of humans and AI agents to make decisions quickly, safely, and compliantly becomes increasingly necessary in every aspect of business, CIOs and CTOs face the critical question: "How?"
At Conflux, we've helped many companies worldwide to adopt and implement fast flow principles and Team Topologies practices, and our proprietary Adapt Together™ approach, in order to optimize their organizations for fast flow. In doing so, we’ve identified nine key dimensions that are common across all organizations that use fast flow to shape organizational effectiveness and alignment, and successfully drive innovation and growth.
Our articles below provide insight into each of The 9 Dimensions.
Sharing and improving practices
The approach to sharing and improving practices is a critical determinant of organizational success. Healthy, nimble organizations demonstrate a strong commitment to this aspect, recognizing that the nature of knowledge work is rapidly shifting and that people benefit immensely from learning from their peers.
Active Knowledge Diffusion (AKD)
Active Knowledge Diffusion (AKD) represents a deliberate and structured approach to spreading knowledge, best practices, and innovations across organizational boundaries. This approach is particularly crucial in contexts where firm team boundaries are necessary for fast flow (such as with Team Topologies), as it prevents silos from impeding overall organizational effectiveness.
Psychological safety
Psychological safety is crucial for fostering open communication and collaborative problem-solving, which are necessary for fast flow. It has emerged as one of the strongest predictors of high organizational performance, particularly in environments focused on fast flow and innovation.
Procurement for fast flow
Procurement plays a crucial role in achieving fast flow within organizations involved in software-enriched knowledge work. Fast flow, defined as multiple ongoing streams of value to customers via software-enriched services done rapidly, safely, and sustainably, requires a strategic approach to procurement that aligns with this goal.
Flow-centric value delivery
Flow-centric value delivery is rapidly becoming essential for organizations involved in software-enriched knowledge work. This approach orients your organization around the flows of value to consumers, rather than around internal functions or team hierarchies.
Unlocking innovation, budget, and time-to-value
These nine dimensions describe an optimal approach for achieving fast flow and reconfiguring your organization for modern knowledge work. By mastering these dimensions, you can unlock innovation, make better use of your budget, and significantly reduce your time-to-value.
But where do you start?
Conflux offers a rapid assessment tool that helps CIOs and CTOs qualify the need for alignment and fast flow within their organizations. By benchmarking your current and near-future approaches and capabilities against these nine dimensions, you can gain a clear understanding and invaluable insights into areas of strength and opportunities for improvement, empowering you to make data-driven decisions and strategically prioritize initiatives.
Book your discovery call with us today and start your journey toward growth through fast flow.
At Conflux, we have the expertise and experience to guide you on this journey. As the leading group of industry experts around fast flow and Team Topologies, we can help you become a thriving organization, delivering at speed.