General Company Circle
dG Backbone
Purpose:
Rewriting the future of organization - Catalyzing the evolution of wholesome organizations.
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Focus Keeper
Purpose:
dG moving like a flock of birdsAccountabilities:
- Facilitating focus meetings (Prioritization, Planning, Stand-Up), providing the opportunity to reflect on focus and on progress of strategic initiatives
- Answering questions of dG members about focus process and channeling feedback for the focus process
- Setting up and maintaining a process to fund and prioritize initiatives
- Anchoring processes and meeting formats in governance and publishing knowledge about focus process in the dG cookbook
- Conducting retrospective meetings to reflect on and further develop effective ways of strategy execution
- Establishing and maintaining a process that helps dG to execute its defined strategy
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Strategic Alignment
Purpose:
dG has a clear and energizing strategic alignment, using all its resources most effectively towards dG's purpose, flow in our collaboration and positive impact in organizationsAccountabilities:
- Creating and maintaining a strategizing process that clarifies strategic decision-making + guardrails as reference point for all GCC subcircles
- Establishing a level of involvement, communication and feedback loops with the whole organization to strengthen commitment for dGs strategic directions
- Developing and refining strategic clarity from the perspective of what’s good for dG and its environments (integrating the following perspectives: current and future partners, dG’s highest potential, favorite customer, mother earth’s calling, medium- and long-term)
- Defining scope, assignment and staff for Strategic Council Days to coordinate focus and design
- Broken record: reminding dG again and again of the strategic decisions which have been made as well as the process to change those should strong tensions arise
- Defining dG’s favorite customer & communicating within the organization
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dG Backbone
Purpose:
Lean and legally compliant finance processes and partner relationsAccountabilities:
- Processing requests for legal advice and representing dG legally
- Designing, administering and updating a flawless financial and accounting system with clearly defined processes in accordance with legal requirements
- Providing monthly financial forecasting and impulses for steering dG's finances
- Selecting, contracting, communicating and taking care of suppliers for accounting, finance, legal advisory, tax advisory
- Organizing funding/sourcing if necessary for the organization
- Advising other roles with regards to further development of dG setup
- Providing a lean and future proof legal setup for healthy partner relations
Purpose:
Lean and legally compliant finance processes and partner relations
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Controller
Purpose:
financial steering and liquid (€) organizationAccountabilities:
- Calculating and updating profit distribution based on according algorithm set by @Profit Distribution Architect
- Withholding the payment of an appropriate amount of D-units to ensure a sustainable cash-flow of the organization
- Processing individual partners' requests for upfront payment of d-units considering current liquidity and forecast of dG revenues.
- Providing transparency for unit transactions for all partners.
- Providing a budget and forecasts on a regular base (at least quarterly) to provide information about the financial situation to all core partners of dG
- Monitoring cash-flow and communicate steering needs with @General Company Circle
- Defining needs for and structure of analytic accounts and informing @Basic Financial Bee
- Collecting, evaluating and prioritizing measures for cost savings
- Triggering double check (amount and effect on liquidity) using the 4-eyes principle with other role fillers before payment of Units to partners
- Checking calculations of profit distribution using the 4-eyes principle with other role fillers at least annually
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Kreis Lead
Purpose:
Lean and legally compliant finance processes and partner relationsAccountabilities:
- Es sind keine Accountabilities für diese Rolle definiert.
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Odoo'ler
Purpose:
Implementing and Maintaining Odoo as Company ERP System in the organizationAccountabilities:
- Providing Material and Information about the ERP Program Odoo
- Providing In-House Training for in Odoo registered Partners of the company
- Collecting feedback from all in Odoo registered Partners for improving the usability of the Software
- Communicating and mandating the external partner with programming tasks considering the spending policy in place
- Testing and implementing new features of the software
- Implementing new company processes provided by the respective role in the software
- Helping all in Odoo registered Partners as First and if possible Second Level Support
- Collecting all problems that need 3rd level Support and forwarding it to the external partner
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Operating Agreement Updater
Purpose:
A lean and transparent legal setup for dG’s self-organizationDomänen:
- Operating Agreement
Accountabilities:
- Maintaining and updating dGs Operating Agreement (Gesellschaftsverträge, Syndikatsvertrag und Beitrittserklärungen)
- Informing all members of dG about planned changes of the operation agreement
- Integrating feedback from other roles and partners before publishing new documents
- Triggering the decision making process in the relevant circle and context before publishing new versions of the operating agreement
- Coordinating new versions of the operating agreement with external legal agents
- Publishing new versions of any foundational agreement (GmbH, GmbH & Co KG, Syndication Agreement, Membership Agreement) to all members
- Securing signatures from all Members as needed when agreement updates are published
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dG Member
Purpose:
Well balanced individual and organizational needsAccountabilities:
- Processing individual tensions in the organization
- Keeping partner agreements up to date