Stage 2, the Organization Phase is ultimately about building the operating backbone of the organization—the structures, capabilities, and habits that will allow the company to move from ambition to execution.  

• Hiring accelerates, expertise deepens, and functional teams form.  

• Agility is still valued, but coordination becomes unavoidable 

• Organization begins defining how work will reliably get done  

• Processes, systems, and governance structures are introduced — often all at once 

• The organization moves from planning and building to constant operational problem‑solving 

• Leaders begin spending more time managing dependencies than creating new things