What is a productivity collective? It is a collective movement to unsettle a current way of working in order to bring new interpretations of waste and new practices for removing them and improving productivity.
You might know about productivity collectives by their "brand names" - Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ISO 9001, CMMI, Agile Project Management, etc. The history of ways of working in every sector is made by the emergence of new productivity collectives.
I'm working with several others, including my friend Guillermo Wechsler, on a paper exploring the phenomena of productivity collectives. Take a look and let me know if you want to join the conversation.
Why are productivity collectives important? We live in exponential times. Times they are a' chang'n'.
In order to remain competitive and stay alive, over the next two decades businesses must get good at (at least) one thing - re-inventing themselves and their ways over and over again. But an historical survey quickly reveals that businesses often take years and sometimes decades to fundamentally re-invent their ways.
The times we live in call for a different approach to reinvention - they call for a reinvention of reinvention - and this is birth of a new productivity collective.
What are the newly emerging productivity collectives? Here's an interesting one - holacracy.
-Steve
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