we're on a road to nowhere // on a quest to analyze and explore the design of business model innovations, i.e. 'hideous and hidden things' like organizational structures and capabilities, corporate strategies and all things related // on a yellow brick road with a girl, a lion and a straw-man wasting our time // …
... another home on the internets for Martin Koser.
He's an independent enterprise collaboration consultant with frogpond most of his time, yet he's written more than 1.000 posts here since 2004.
"Recognizing and responding to complexity is difficult in environments that try to reduce things to rules. A rule (or standardized test) is only effective in static situations. When contexts changes, the elements that comprise complex phenomenon are in a state of play – connections break and form as the environment shifts. In these instances, following a rule can actually exacerbate the situation (can you say “austerity measures in Europe”?). For individuals, complexity is very frustrating. It calls into question the value of knowledge as an entity (in contrast with knowledge as a capacity process)"