S3E9: Think big, start small, learn fast - with Patrik Olofsson from INGKA - IKEA

Welcome back to Superkinetics!


Today's guest is Patrik Olofsson. Some of
you might already know him as he was a speaker at our Workpath
Quarterly in June and also as a guest at our OKR Forum in
Amsterdam.
He is a certified Scrum Master, and he is
Chapter Lead and Vice President, leading the Agile
Coaches at INGKA which is a part of the IKEA Group.


Patrik started his career as a developer and architect but over
the last 20 years, his passion transitioned to agile
transformations, continuous improvement in orgs, and
coaching.
He provides new approaches and new ways of working that have
brought increased efficiency and profitability to the companies
he worked with.


Today we’ll talk about organizational change, OKRs and
particularly about scaling and the challenges that arise
with it.


(02:38) How do you start a transformational process?
(07:41) Who should start with the transformation?
(09:43) What is the perfect adoption process for a team?
(13:56) OKRs as an analytics framework.
(18:37) What are the most important roles to make OKRs
work?
(21:48) What are the most important building blocks for an "OKR
Playbook"?
(25:17) How can you facilitate help to teams?
(27:24) Why is it so difficult to think in outcomes?
(32:08) Our three standard questions


People referred to:
- Barack Obama


Book recommendations:
- Team Topologies by Mathew Skelton and Manuel Pais


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