Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
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A reconstructed Viable System Model for digital organisations called Wholehearted claims a usable, fractal model that names roles as verbs and focuses the core here and now on delivering, discovering, renewing. It shows concrete practices — coordination tools (Kanban Jira scrum), informal practices (managing by walking around, andon stop the line), attention to AI mediating coordination, and a testable metric: whether a scope has enough communication and decision‑making capacity to self‑organize (a $50 billion failure example surfaces).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Org
- 4:42Reconstructing the VSM
- 8:34Modeling value creation
- 17:07AI’s impact on coordination
- 21:01Adaptive strategizing
- 27:43Balancing continuity and change
- 31:13Context sharing practices
- 33:40Networks between scales
- 36:37Dialogic change
- 40:52Summary
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