‘Just like individuals, organizational systems have an innate capacity for renewal and innovation,’ says Mieke Jacobs, a transformational facilitator, expert in systemic intelligence and co-author of EMERGENT. ‘But creating the right environment to foster creativity, idea generation and bottom-up improvement requires employees to be engaged and feel safe to fail.’
Source: forbes.com
The Cynefin Framework is central to Cognitive Edge methods and tools. It allows executives to see things from new viewpoints, assimilate complex concepts, and address real-world problems and opportunities. Using the Cynefin framework can help executives sense which context they are in so that they can not only make better decisions but also avoid the problems that arise when their preferred management style causes them to make mistakes.
7 april 2020 Work Place Insight
Firms with strong DNA tend to have a strong immune system.
Mergers & acquisitions should always lead to a cultural identity shift. To do that well there is a need to really get to know the underlying identity of the acquired organisation.
The systemic principles can be used as a lens to look at both players – the acquirer and the acquired – and understand the cultural identity and dynamics on a deeper level.