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Janne J. Korhonen Work is Organized as a Holarchy of Viable Systems In his excellent book “Making Work Systems Better”, Luc Hoebeke (1994) develops a work systems framework that provides an alternative to monolithic, hierarchic models of organizations. Arguing that the …
In my previous post, I put forth the general — and trivial — idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five…
Peterson (2004) identifies three basic value drivers of IT governance: service infrastructure, solution integration and strategic innovation. In service infrastructure, the value lies in IT operations and services that are delivered with maximum reliab…
In my previous post, I discussed how a system must undergo a transformation to persist and to develop. As the notion of ecosystem resilience, introduced therein, may have remained somewhat abstract and elusive, I will here attempt to exemplify systemic…
Sometimes less is too much. Inexorably, at some point, the organization or logic of a system that has worked well in the past turns out inadequate in the face of changing environmental circumstances. The inherent limits of system resilience –…
In my last two blog posts, I have outlined a five-scale classification of system views and elaborated on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view. As these systemic views are increasingly expressive and powerful, they also call for progressiv…
In my latest blog post, I outlined a five-scale classification of system views and discussed tentatively how those system views would pertain to Enterprise Architecture. In the following, I will elaborate on the systemic-structural underpinnings of eac…
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a representation of the business in terms of its components and component relationships in order to facilitate business change. It mediates our knowledge and understanding of the underlying organizational system an…
Information technology has traditionally been seen as mere “cost of doing business” that is “aligned” with business at best. As IT infrastructure has commoditized at operational levels and the business environment has become increasingly complex, howev…
Counterintuitive it may seem, agility does not come with an abandonment of rules, but actually requires more organizational discipline. Mature organizations do things systematically, while immature organizations achieve their outcomes as a result of th…