This page uses an example to illustrate how:
- A business can gain focus from targeting key customers,
- Business planning activities performed by the whole organization can build awareness, empowerment and coherence.
- A program approach can ensure strategic alignment.
This page uses the example of HP's printer organization freeing
itself from its organizational constraints to sell a printer
targeted at the IBM pc user.
The constraints are described.
The techniques to overcome them are implied.
The constraints are described.
The techniques to overcome them are implied.
Operationalizing a strategy that demands change is a risky business.
Summary
This page describes the organizational forces that limit change. It explains how to overcome them when necessary.Introduction
Reactionary forces protect the organizational coalition from needlessly restructuring an effective organization. However, when change is necessary - to change the status quo to our advantage or escape from an The complex adaptive system (CAS)
nature of a value delivery system is first introduced. It's a network
of agents acting as relays.
The critical nature of hub agents and the difficulty of altering an aligned network is reviewed.
The nature of and exceptional opportunities created by platforms are discussed.
Finally an example of aligning a VDS is presented.
environment
that can no longer sustain the business; progress must overcome
these forces. The critical nature of hub agents and the difficulty of altering an aligned network is reviewed.
The nature of and exceptional opportunities created by platforms are discussed.
Finally an example of aligning a VDS is presented.
Understand the forces
Typical forces that can be operating:- Hierarchic
forces initiated by threats. The majority response of
humans under threat is to participate in the Peter Turchin describes how major pre-industrial empires developed due to effects of geographic boundaries constraining the empires and their neighbors' interactions. Turchin shows how the asymmetries of breeding rates and resource growth rates results in dynamic cycles within cycles. After the summary of Turchin's book complex adaptive system (CAS) theory is used to augment Turchins findings.development of a command and control hierarchy. This is
This page reviews the implications of selection, variation and heredity in a complex adaptive system (CAS). The mechanism and its emergence are discussed.evolutionarily legitimate. However, as an evolved response it assumes a very different environment to that in today's businesses. When change must be followed by creativity the hierarchic forces must be first leveraged to drive any restructuring that will be necessary and then overcome.
- The complexity of behavior is explored through Sapolsky developing scenarios of our best and worst behaviors across time spans, and scientific subjects including: anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology. The rich network of adaptive flows he outlines provides insights and highlight challenges for scientific research on behavior.Behavioral forces structured to resolve incompatible objectives
Complex adaptive system (CAS) theory builds on Sapolsky's details highlighting the strategies that evolution has captured to successfully enter niches we now occupy.
- Functional forces initiated by the recombination process of the enterprise
Overcoming the
forces
For a visionary leader now aims to develop plans and strategies which ensure effective coordination to improve the common good of the in-group. Pinker notes the evolved pressure of social rivalry associating power with leadership. Different evolved personality types reinforced during development provided hunter-gatherer bands with alternate adult capabilities for coping with the various challenges of the African savanna. As the situation changed different personalities would prove most helpful in leading the band. Big men, chiefs and leaders of early states leveraged their power over the flow of resources to capture and redistribute wealth to their supporters. As the environmental state changed and began threatening the polity's fitness, one leader would be abandoned, replaced by another who the group hoped might improve the situation for all. Sapolsky observes the disconnect that occurs between power hierarchies and wisdom in apes. In modern Anglo-American style corporations, which typically follow Malthus, and are disconnected from the superOrganism nest site, the goal of leadership has become detached from the needs of this broader polity, instead: seeking market and revenue growth, hiring and firing workers, and leveraging power to reduce these commitments further. Dorner notes that corporate executives show an appreciation of how to control a CAS. Robert Iger with personality types: Reformer, Achiever, Investigator; describes his time as Disney CEO, where he experienced a highly aligned environment, working to nurture the good and manage the bad. He notes something is always coming up. Leadership requires the ability to adapt to challenges while compartmentalizing. John Boyd: Achiever, Investigator, Challenger; could not align with the military hierarchy but developed an innovative systematic perspective which his supporters championed and politicians leveraged. John Adair developed a modern leadership methodology based on the three-circles model. , determined as to the future direction for business success the hierarchic forces stimulated by fear is an emotion which prepares the body for time sensitive action: Blood is sent to the muscles from the gut and skin, Adrenalin is released stimulating: Fuel to be released from the liver, Blood is encouraged to clot, and Face is wide-eyed and fearful. The short-term high priority goal, experienced as a sense of urgency, is to flee, fight or deflect the danger. There are both 'innate' - really high priority learning - which are mediated by the central amygdala and learned fears which are mediated by the BLA which learns to fear a stimulus and then signals the central amygdala. Tara Brach notes we experience fear as a painfully constricted throat, chest and belly, and racing heart. The mind can build stories of the future which include fearful situations making us anxious about current ideas and actions that we associate with the potential future scenario. And it can associate traumatic events from early childhood with our being at fault. Consequent assumptions of our being unworthy can result in shame and fear of losing friendships. The mechanism for human fear was significantly evolved to protect us in the African savanna. This does not align perfectly with our needs in current environments: U.S. Grant was unusually un-afraid of the noise or risk of guns and trusted his horses' judgment, which mostly benefited his agency as a modern soldier.
will limit creativity and risk taking. The fear must be removed.
The
The complexity of behavior is explored through Sapolsky
developing scenarios of our best and worst behaviors across time
spans, and scientific subjects including: anthropology,
psychology, neuroscience, sociology. The rich network of adaptive flows he
outlines provides insights and highlight challenges for
scientific research on behavior.
Complex adaptive system (CAS) theory builds on Sapolsky's details highlighting the strategies that evolution has captured to successfully enter niches we now occupy.
behavioral forces will
typically be required to develop a scalable operation, but they
must be checked while structural changes are executed. In
particular powerful incumbents may not personally benefit from
the required changes. In my experience a few key
reactionary elements may have to be removed from the
organization as part of a tipping-point
process to align all of organization, and its Eco-net with
the leaders progressive strategy. Complex adaptive system (CAS) theory builds on Sapolsky's details highlighting the strategies that evolution has captured to successfully enter niches we now occupy.
The behavioral structure of an operation will also have devolved responsibilities to particular functional units. These placements are unlikely to be optimal as the change takes place, so a flattened organization will have to deploy with key inputs to the business being reviewed by all participants.
A
This page uses an example to illustrate how:
program structure can be used to
enable the flattening. With associated program processes
to iterate over the inputs, actions and priorities of the
organization the leader can remain in touch with the challenges
that appear and stimulate new options when necessary. - A business can gain focus from targeting key customers,
- Business planning activities performed by the whole organization can build awareness, empowerment and coherence.
- A program approach can ensure strategic alignment.
With a flat, program structure people will initially need a credible
Rob's Strategy Studio aims to celebrate and illuminate complex adaptive systems (CAS) just
as an art studio does art.
By way of introduction it notes the complex interactions that led to the partnership that discovered the DNA double helix and genetic code.
The page introduces the RSS vision 'I act, therefore I think' approach and the RSS mission.
It describes how many key aspects of the world are CAS including businesses.
Finally the page explains each of the framed pictures displayed at the studio including the other aspects explored in this vision frame.
vision, mission and value proposition to feel
a valuable part of the group. As the development
progresses key competitors should be made the out group focus of
the organization. These activities are all enhanced
through workshops like Lynn Phillip's 'Building Market Focused
Organizations'. By way of introduction it notes the complex interactions that led to the partnership that discovered the DNA double helix and genetic code.
The page introduces the RSS vision 'I act, therefore I think' approach and the RSS mission.
It describes how many key aspects of the world are CAS including businesses.
Finally the page explains each of the framed pictures displayed at the studio including the other aspects explored in this vision frame.
Core development activities including documentation and training, and the process life-cycle must reflect the market environment being targeted by the leader. Experienced managers will be able to motivate the teams with the rate of progress and contribution that can be made.
Re-factoring of the core architecture should be expected to be a fundamental aspect of any development associated with the market shifts that enable progressive actions to succeed.
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As a working example it presents part of the contents and schematic details from the Adaptive Web Framework (AWF)'s operational plan.
Finally it includes a section presenting our formal representation of schematic goals.
Each goal has a series of associated complex adaptive system (CAS) strategy strings.
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As a working example it presents part of the contents and schematic details from the Adaptive Web Framework (AWF)'s operational plan.
Finally it includes a section presenting our formal representation of schematic goals.
Each goal has a series of associated complex adaptive system (CAS) strategy strings.
These goals plus strings are detailed for various chess and business examples.
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- A program approach can ensure strategic alignment.
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