complexity and structural change 3
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Today’s organization is being trapped within past paradigms that prevent it to be more flexible and dynamic. Recently, in past years organizations have unsuccessfully sought the formulas that would allow them to survive in a competitive environment which is every day more dynamic and disorderly. However, changes have been partial and organizations haven’t been able to adapt the business essence according to the new and incremental environmental demands. In spite of everything, we know the 21st Century organizations should learn to evolve and adapt their structures in this new environment if they want to stay within the competition arena. The Process-Structure Model will allow us to understand and modify the complex internal organizational dynamics, identifying the structures that generate the spread of dissimilar conducts and events. In the Complexity and Chaos book, the tool of Management Complexity is also presented, an ideal support for those organizations trying to design or redesign structures in order to reach the conducts and learning that would guarantee the adaptation to their environment. The process of organizational change could be accomplished in learning cycles considering the essential structure in order to reach a sustained and healthy growth.TRANSCRIPT
Complexity Managementthrough
Structural Change©
By Alfonso CornejoAuthor of the Book
Complexity and Chaos:A Guide for XXI Century Management
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Why the Low
Performance of
Processes?
Structures
Because Structures…
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Structures
generate
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Structures
Processes…
Processes
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…and Processes…
ProcessesStructures
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…repeated many
times can…
Processes
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Structures
…create, modify,
transform Structures
Processes
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Structures Processes
Structure-Process is a
co-dependent
duality
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Structures Processes
with unstoppable
dynamic
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Structures Processes
with movement, and
unintended
transformations
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Structures Processes
that integrate in
Systems
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Structures Processes
that interchange
information and energy
with its Environment
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Structures Processes
A System…
System Frontier
Environment
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Structures Processes
…that interacts at
different
levels
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
…one of which
is Culture
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
Now…to understand
Behavior
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
We need to look closely
to the dynamic
interactions
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Culture is not isolated
Struct Proc
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That explains why it is
not so easy to change
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
And also that if you
want to change
Behaviors….
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
Structures must
change….
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
And Culture counts….
as part of the equation
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
The System is not
isolated..is coevolving
whit its Environment
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
Structurally coupled
with its Environment
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structures Processes
With Systems at a
higher level
Struct Proc
System Frontier
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Environment
Structures Processes
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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Structure-Process
Model means that…
Structures
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…If You Build it….
Structures Processes
System Frontier
Environment
Struct Proc
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…They Will Come….
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Previous slides
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Book
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