The Antifragile Organization with Janka Krings-Klebe

From Hierarchies to Ecosystems

Have you heard of antifragile organizations? They go beyond resilience and give us hope for the future, according to Janka Krings-Klebe, co-author (with Jörg Schreiner) of a new book The Antifragile Organization: From Hierarchies to Ecosystems.

In this book, she looks at how organizations can transition from rigid hierarchies to adaptive, collaborative ecosystems. This not only lets them to excel in our era of uncertainty and disruption, but ensures, if they have the will, that they will always be one step ahead.

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The Transcript

Setting the scene

From Zhang Ruimin and Haier

Beyond hierarchy and bureaucracy

Antifragile creates shared, fair, inclusive, sustainable value

Ecosystems create a value stream

Resilient or antifragile?

Nassim Taleb and fragility

Weak signals and learning to unlearn

The Importance of redundancy

Next practices, not best practices

What happened to Boeing and to Bosch?

Building the digital backbone

From digitization to digitalization

Automation, and AI for decision support

European Union AI Act

Information and better decisions

The joint action model

An iterative learning journey

Vision of future organizations as ecosystems

Watch what’s happening outside

A matter of organizational will