A strategic shift is required of corporations for them to be effective in a turbulent and disruptive world while continuing to be competitively and economically sustainable. The current economy fails to work for its citizens,…
I want to make a subtle change to how we can think of organizations as living systems. My purpose is to improve the way of thinking about organizations as extimate symptoms. Essentially, it is us…
Questioning sovereignty It is tempting to think of a corporation or even an industry as an ecosystem, within which “leadership becomes less about control and more about navigating through complex and diverse business eco-systems.”(Western, 2013)…
The value stairs and the double diamond provide ways of thinking about potential maladaptation. Maladaptation presents opportunities to develop new forms of value creation that involve lifting the strategy ceiling. Pursuing these opportunities involves a…
Question: Can you please tell me, in as simple terms as possible, the meaning that you have for “the doubling of the double task”. I think I understand you and have visited your blog, but…
The last blog ended on the challenges faced by customers created by ‘market failures’. Market failure arises when providing a product or service to a market-defining aggregation of demand cannot be economically justified on the…
Using the biological metaphors from the 2nd blog, we have approached a structural ecosystem as being like a holobiont. This enables us to include the ecosystem’s constituent business units, subcontractors and outsourced services as symbionts…
If we take up the biological metaphors from the 2nd blog, we must consider how to set aside the vertical cybernetic approach to sovereignty, based on an external authority, in order to approach a structural…
Introduction We return now to the issues raised by the first blog in this series: what is involved in the doubling of the Harold Bridger’s double task (Bridger 1990)?[1] In order to compete effectively in…
In the last blog, I described how the variety of possible 1st order material cause closures represented all the possible behaviors able to be realized by a living system. The 3rd order formal cause closures…