Relative Targets: Patterns in Practice (#22)

In the first three volumes of this series, Silke Hermann and I reported on three sets of patterns that we have observed in our work on organizational transformations with clients over the years. The patterns described were related to Cell Structure Design (covering all aspects of decentralization, org design and interactions) and OpenSpace Beta (covering all aspects of invitation-based, very fast transformation processes). If you have not read the first three parts of this paper series, I invite you to access and read them here.

In this paper, we will turn to the BetaCodex social technology called Relative Targets. I published the approach under an open source license, in 2021, which means that you are free to apply and to commercialize the approach, including the possibility to innovate around Relative Targets, as long as you rigorously refer to the source and make your derivations open source.

Relative Targets covers all aspects of performance systems under the conditions of real-world complexity and with smart people doing the work. Without planning or budgets, incentives or cost management. The Relative Targets approach covers every aspect of organizational performance systems – from future-focused thinking and resource usage to reporting to pay systems.