Cognizant Netcentric has been practicing Holacracy® since 2014.
They’ve adopted all five articles of the Holacracy Constitution—fully embracing self-management with a bold commitment to purposeful leadership, disciplined collaboration, and growing as a learning organization. Details below
This badge recognizes Cognizant Netcentric's alignment with HolacracyOne’s baseline criteria for genuine practice, based on a self-assessment they submitted.
Cognizant Netcentric
English, German, Romanian, Spanish
Management Consulting
2014
Version 5.0
501+ people
None or unknown.
Cognizant Netcentric
Purpose: We are one integrated, trust-based organization dedicated to empowering each of us to innovate, deliver value, and exceed the highest quality expectations for our customers.
Cognizant Netcentric is your end-to-end digital partner that transforms brand experiences into next generation customer engagement. We empower the world’s leading brands to connect with their customers at scale and succeed in the digital era by leveraging Adobe Experience Cloud and other cutting-edge technologies.
As Cognizant’s Adobe center of excellence, our approach combines data and insights, experience-driven commerce, and content and customer journeys at scale to pioneer solutions, unlocking next-generation capabilities for businesses to thrive and lead in their market. Leveraging cutting-edge Adobe Cloud technology, we work with clients to build systems that help them deliver personalized experiences to customers at every point in their journey.
With a decade-long track record, we help our clients transform their vision into reality.
Why We Started With Holacracy
At a high growth rate of 40% per year we reached 100+ employees two years after founding the company. A management layer was not part of the thinking process and Holacracy fitted to the needs best.
Our Biggest Win
Keeping the growth, getting acquired by Cognizant and still maintaining both growth and Holacracy in a hybrid mode in the large mothership until today.
Our Biggest Challenge
Accepting that Holacracy is only the organizational framework but not a people management system. We needed to establish a "people success system" next to Holacracy. That is now the foundation of our success—having Holacracy to manage the purpose and the other system to manage the success and growth of our people.
How they practice Holacracy
Cognizant Netcentric shared a self-assessment describing how they currently apply Holacracy in their work.
They’ve adopted the following parts of the framework:
- Organizational Structure (Article 1):
They've adopted a clear structure and roles, ensuring everyone knows who is responsible for what. - Rules of Cooperation (Article 2):
They've committed to transparency, mutual accountability, and clear shared expectations. - Tactical Meetings (Article 3):
They run fast, focused meetings that keep work flowing and issues addressed in real time. - Distributed Authority (Article 4):
They give everyone the freedom to act in their roles without micromanagement. - Governance Process (Article 5):
They give everyone a voice in evolving the structure to meet changing needs
Snapshot of their structure
