No Managers, No Problem? Indaero after 12 months
Krisos
Case example · 10 min read · For: Owners / executives, Team leads / managers, Front line
An honest first-year update from Krisos on transforming Indaero, an aerospace components maker in Seville. It reports the financial results alongside the hard parts: some employees struggled with autonomy and conflict resolution needed work. One of the few public case examples with before-and-after numbers for a traditional manufacturer.
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Problems it helps with
- Show me a real company where removing managers didn't wreck the numbers
- I want to know what goes wrong in the first year, not just the wins
- Some of our people struggle with more autonomy and I don't know if that's normal
- How much participation in governance is realistic on a factory floor?
What it covers
- Five hierarchy layers replaced with seven self-managing teams and elected representatives
- Revenue up 40-50%, EBITDA nearly doubled, salaries up 27%, 25% of net results shared
- Governance participation rose from 20% to 52%; women in leadership from 18% to 62%
- Struggles with autonomy, conflict resolution and some declining sentiment
Topics: Open-book management · Org structure: triangles to circles · Self-management overview