RBM Glossary

Discover the Toyota Production System (TPS): a world-renowned management method for eliminating waste.

Discover the concept of 'Muda', a key approach to continuous improvement aimed at eliminating unnecessary activities to optimize organizational efficiency.

Discover Poka-Yoke: an intelligent approach to error prevention in system and process design

The OSCAR method helps to formulate benevolent and engaging feedback. An asset for collaboration and easing tensions.

Co-creator of the holacracy method, influencing issues related to organizational change and management.

Author of Reinventing Organizations, promulgating an evolutionary model of conscious enterprise. Influential in organizational thinking and management.

Author on productivity, creator of the GTD method. Influential in time and task management, organization and personal effectiveness.

Practicing the precepts of Quakerism, promoting consensus, equality, shared values and sociocratic influence.

It's a structured exchange for key decisions, aligned with the organization's governance model.

Company management system based on participative governance, consent, circles, roles, equal voice and adaptability.

Company management system aimed at employee autonomy. Based on roles, circles and distributed decision-making.

A flat structure where responsibilities and influence are equally distributed to encourage autonomy and collective decision-making.

Self-organizing model, aligned with values, encourages responsibility and collaboration within the organization.

Qualifier used to define that a process, a practice or any element respects the good practices of agile methods.

Iterative, adaptive approaches, favoring collaboration and flexibility within the organization.

Operational meeting to coordinate actions, optimize processes and achieve organizational objectives.

Creative, user-centered approach to innovation and problem-solving.

Change management involves a guided transition to a fluid set of adaptations to enable the organization to evolve effectively.

Governance is the distribution of authority into decision-making structures to guide organization and collaboration.

Feedback is constructive feedback, essential for learning and continuous development.

Consent is agreement without objection in collaborative decision-making.

Tensions represent unmet needs, and are an improvement driver for organizational change.

As a catalyst for collaboration on a given topic or meeting, its aim is to encourage smooth processes and collective decision-making.

A checklist is a structured list used as an operational guide, to ensure that all tasks are completed.

Note-taking serves to capture ideas, clarify actions and expectations. It's an essential support for collaboration and follow-up.

Indicators are metrics that measure the progress of a role, circle or member in order to guide towards the organization's objectives.

Obligation to justify shared and individual actions and decisions, the aim being to promote transparency.

Scope of action or decision assigned to a circle or role, guiding its responsibilities.

The vital foundation of a circle or role, it motivates action and expresses its deepest meaning.

Decisions are choices based on consensus at the end of a meeting or at the autonomy of a circle, influencing direction or action.

Tasks are specific, measurable elements of work that arise from the roles defined within the circles. They are transparently assigned to the appropriate members.

Meetings are collaborative gatherings that facilitate the exchange of information and the coordination of progress towards shared goals.

Topics are specific problems, initiatives or issues that are identified and managed in an agile way by members of the organization.

Circles are groups with a specific mission and responsibility for making decisions in the associated field.

Roles are clearly defined functions responsible for specific tasks, encouraging autonomy and innovation.

The organization chart is a dynamic structure in which teams are organized in autonomous circles, each with specific responsibilities.