The Organization Is Alive – S&B – Art Kleiner
To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body. Over the past 30 years, management thinkers have largely come to accept the idea that organizations are not machines; they are as unpredictable, unruly, self-organizing, and even sentient as any living [...]
read moreManaging Creativity from an Organizational Economics Perspective – A White Paper
This white paper supports the theory and practice behind the Management Innovation Index by exploring the organizational dilemma of intangibility in innovation and the consequences of ignoring it; proposing a case for a systems thinking approach to organizational creativity to drive measurable innovation; reviewing the importance of the emergence of the new field of organizational [...]
read moreSystems Thinking and The Role of Creativity
When Dr. W Edward Denning, Statistician, Management Consultant, Author, The New Economies for Industry, Government and Education says “A system cannot understand itself. Any transformation requires an outside view – a lens – that I call a system of profound knowledge…. A map of theory by which to understand the organizations we work in…”, he [...]
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