Vulnerability in Industrial Precincts
Vulnerability in Industrial Precincts – The Coming Wave, by Jackie O’Dowd,…
Cybernetics
Enterprise Architecture and Complexity
by Jackie O’Dowd Business and Enterprise Architectures commonly describe the…
Cohesion Forces and Tools
This article is part of the series on Autonomy and Cohesion. It is the second part of the basic overview of the balance. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend doing so before reading further. Cohesion forces Liquids and solids are in those states because there are cohesion forces bonding the molecules together. The main […]
Autonomy and Cohesion
The viability and welfare of socio-technical systems depend on their ability to balance autonomy and cohesion. Is that true for other systems? Yes, it is remarkably universal. It works for biological systems like bacteria or elephants and social systems like packs of wolves, termites or beehives. However, this series focuses on socio-technical systems such as […]
Requisite Hypocrisy
The city is charged with tension and a sense of urgency. After years of oppression, people’s frustration has reached its boiling point. The streets are flooded with bodies, united in their demand for equality. As you navigate through the crowd, you are just one among the countless anonymous faces. Only those next to you can […]
Creativity and Recursivity
Prompted by @jjn1’s article on AI and creative thinking, I’ve been reading a paper by some researchers comparing the creativity of ChatGPT against their students (at an elite university, no less).What is interesting about this paper is not that ChatGPT…
Creativity and Recursivity
Prompted by @jjn1’s article on AI and creative thinking, I’ve been reading a paper by some researchers comparing the creativity of ChatGPT against their students (at an elite university, no less).What is interesting about this paper is not that ChatGPT…
Constructing POSIWID
I’ve just been reading Harish Jose’s latest post A Constructivist’s View of POSIWID. POSIWID stands for the maxim (THE) Purpose Of (A) System Is What It Does, which was coined by Stafford Beer.Harish points out that there are many different systems wit…
Constructing POSIWID
I’ve just been reading Harish Jose’s latest post A Constructivist’s View of POSIWID. POSIWID stands for the maxim (THE) Purpose Of (A) System Is What It Does, which was coined by Stafford Beer.Harish points out that there are many different systems wit…
On Organizations and Machines
My previous post Where does learning take place? was prompted by a Twitter discussion in which some of the participants denied that organizational learning was possible or meaningful. Some argued that any organizational behaviour or intention could be …
On Organizations and Machines
My previous post Where does learning take place? was prompted by a Twitter discussion in which some of the participants denied that organizational learning was possible or meaningful. Some argued that any organizational behaviour or intention could be …
Where does learning take place?
This blogpost started with an argument on Twitter. Harish Jose quoted the organization theorist Ralph Stacey:Organizations do not learn. Organizations are not humans. @harish_josevThis was reinforced by someone who tweets as SystemsNinja, suggesting th…