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FAVI, Un exemple - One Beyond Budgeting feedback

English version below.

Dans le document "Organiser pour la complexité", Niels propose des principes d'organisation pour adapter son organization à la complexité. La maturité de ce document est le résultat d’années de travail qui se matérialisent dans ses  autres présentations disponibles en ligne. Ces idées font parti d'un mouvement plus large nommé "Beyond Budgeting" qui se défini comme "un mouvement après le commande et contrôle, pour un modèle de management avec plus d'empowerment et adaptabilité"

Vous trouverez parmi les cas d'utilisation réalisés par "l'International Center for Outperformance", celui de la société FAVI (Voir diapositives en fin de ce billet).

Niels a aussi publié quelques notes intéressantes sur ce sujet.

François Zobrist qui est au centre de la mise en place du management à la FAVI donne dans la vidéo ci-dessous, un témoignage au CJD Biarritz. Vous trouverez des similitudes avec le document précédent et cette vidéo vous permettra d'aborder la littérature disponible sur le site de la société FAVI.


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In the document “Organize for complexity”, Niels proposes organizational principles to adapt your firm to complexity. This document’s maturity is the result of years of work, that you can find in his other online documents. These ideas are part of a larger trend named “Beyond budgeting”, that defines itself as movement “beyond command-and-control toward a management model that is more empowered and adaptive”. You can find real use cases, described by the International Center for Outperformance, among them the FAVI case (see slides below). Niels has interesting notes about this subject and I agree with him “FAVI seems like an antithesis to the French standard”. The French video above is feedback from François Zobrist, who made the FAVI transformation from a traditional to a Beyond Budgeting model, but sadly has no English subtitles.



Sources :
SlideShare : Niels Pflaeging’s Presentations
BetaCodex Network : FAVI, the first Beyond Budgeting pioneer from France
International Center for Outperformance : Beyond Budgeting cas study
bbrt.org : About Beyond Budgeting
Wikipédia FR : Empowerment

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