This page describes the organizational forces that limit change.
It explains how to overcome
them when necessary.
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.
Dark webs can help creativity and learning
Summary
Dark webs is a web site that is not open to the Internet. It is a set of deployed HTML files in a directory which refer to each other via file based references relative to the directory. can enhance individual creativity, local operational autonomy, enterprise strategic alignment and organizational learning. In this page we summarize the opportunity.Introduction
This page introduces the complex adaptive system (CAS) theory
frame. The theory is positioned relative to the natural
sciences. It catalogs the laws and strategies which
underpin the operation of systems that are based on the
interaction of emergent agents.
John Holland's framework for representing complexity is outlined. Links to other key aspects of CAS theory discussed at the site are presented.
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) can
only be understood and controlled predictably with appropriate John Holland's framework for representing complexity is outlined. Links to other key aspects of CAS theory discussed at the site are presented.
The agents in complex adaptive
systems (CAS) must model their
environment to respond effectively to it. Samuel
modeling is described as an approach.
models and strategies that make
allowance for adaptive modifications and responses.
Otherwise the system appears chaotic provides an explanation for the apparently random period between water droplets falling from a tap. Typically the model of the system is poor and so the data captured about the system looks unpredictable - chaotic. With a better model the system's operation can be explained with standard physical principles. Hence chaos as defined here is different from complexity.
and unmanageable as Dietrich Dorner argues complex adaptive systems (CAS) are hard to understand and
manage. He provides examples of how this feature of these
systems can have disastrous consequences for their human
managers. Dorner suggests this is due to CAS properties
psychological impact on our otherwise successful mental
strategic toolkit. To prepare to more effectively manage
CAS, Dorner recommends use of:
described by Dorner.
- Effective iterative planning and
- Practice with complex scenario simulations; tools which he reviews.
A leader aims to develop plans and strategies which ensure effective coordination to improve the common good of the in-group. John Adair developed a leadership methodology based on the three-circles model.
without a
This page looks at schematic structures
and their uses. It discusses a number of examples:
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.
written plan can make rapid changes of
direction. This seems to promote - Schematic ideas are recombined in creativity.
- Similarly designers take ideas and rules about materials and components and combine them.
- Schematic Recipes help to standardize operations.
- Modular components are combined into strategies for use in business plans and business models.
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.
To benefit from shifts in the environment agents must be flexible. Being
sensitive to environmental signals
agents who adjust strategic priorities can constrain their
competitors.
flexibility
but in a complex environment it is sure to lead to thrashing
back and forth as the business and its proximate environment
rapidly adapt to each change. Adopting a rigorous planning methodology can allow top down
Terrence Deacon explores how constraints on dynamic flows can
induce emergent phenomena
which can do real work. He shows how these phenomena are
sustained. The mechanism enables the development of Darwinian competition.
constraints to remove all flexibility
from the business.
- Good ideas are successful because they build upon prior developments that have been successfully implemented. Johnson demonstrates that they are phenotypic expressions of memetic plans subject to the laws of complex adaptive systems (CAS).Creativity is a complex process which can be undermined by top down controls.
- To benefit from shifts in the environment agents must be flexible. Being sensitive to environmental signals agents who adjust strategic priorities can constrain their competitors.Flexibility benefits from the
- Ability to prioritize based on the proximate
situation.
- Introduction of Rather than oppose the direct thrust of some environmental flow agents can improve their effectiveness with indirect responses. This page explains how agents are architected to do this and discusses some examples of how it can be done.indirection within the strategic action.
- The unbounded nature of complex environments requires a flexible representation.
- Without networked access to planning information islands
of understanding can become disconnected from each
other.
- Poor planning infrastructure is augmented by adding time
consuming meetings and status emails.
The strategic and networked nature of systems is poorly supported by generic tools:
- Private and shared parts of the planning sources should be
handled differently.
- Flexible representation is needed that can associate
complex interdependencies with goals of the plan.
- Broad visibility of the Agents use sensors to detect events in their environment. This page reviews how these events become signals associated with beneficial responses in a complex adaptive system (CAS). CAS signals emerge from the Darwinian information model. Signals can indicate decision summaries and level of uncertainty.signals is necessary to drive awareness and coherence.
- Creative ideas and actions typically need protecting from the control systems until they grow strong enough to self-justify.
- Goals should cascade throughout the businesses operational network as they are delegated.
- Different audiences should see appropriate subsets of the plans structure and details. Each goal owner should be able to decide where and when their strategies should be made visible to others.
Specialized tools are becoming available that can deploy HTML source into dark web is a web site that is not open to the Internet. It is a set of deployed HTML files in a directory which refer to each other via file based references relative to the directory. sites including the dark web generator that deploys this web site. Every page of www.robsstrategystudio.org is static, is built from a filtered subset of the core sources and is generated in this way.
HTML editors enable unstructured documents to be written describing highly complex environments and outlining goals and actions to carry the goals out. A system can be constructed when an editor is combined with tools to:
- Share the document sources among a team of writers.
- Filter the sources for presentation to different target
audiences.
- Deploy the filtered outputs into targeted dark webs for
each specific audience.
The resulting browser accessible plans can cover both business and execution allowing corporate strategy cascades to be represented as a recursive series of HTTP links between goals and the set of strategies that operationalize each goal.
Once the execution plans are specified as dark web pages it is possible to include them as the organization iterates round a
Walter Shewhart's iterative development process is found in many
complex adaptive systems (CAS).
The mechanism is reviewed and its value in coping with random
events is explained.
Shewhart cycle helping support
organizational learning. The filtering process allows the pages of each dark web to include augmentation with:
- Checklist item details
- Glossary item details
- Execution status change cascades. For example the
delegator's dark web goal can be Agents use sensors to detect events in their environment. This page reviews how these events become signals associated with beneficial responses in a complex adaptive system (CAS). CAS signals emerge from the Darwinian information model. Signals can indicate decision summaries and level of uncertainty.signalled when the delegate's strategy status changes.
- Filtering (removal) of links to excluded areas of a
specific dark web plan instance.
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This page looks at schematic structures
and their uses. It discusses a number of examples:
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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- Schematic ideas are recombined in creativity.
- Similarly designers take ideas and rules about materials and components and combine them.
- Schematic Recipes help to standardize operations.
- Modular components are combined into strategies for use in business plans and business models.
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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