Three kinds of chaos
There are three kinds of chaos. They’re fundamentally different from each other. Don’t mix them up… (For a quick overview of the themes in this post, see the video ‘Three kinds of chaos‘.) I was going to start this off …
Tag: order
Order, unorder and effectiveness
A quick follow-on from the previous post on ‘Complex, complicated and Einstein’s dice‘, in relation to effectiveness in enterprise-architecture. There’s a common phrasing in business and elsewhere that places efficiency and effectiveness as kind-of opposites: efficiency, we’re told, is doing things …
Yet more Cynefin
As you’ll see from the comments to my previous post on Cynefin, Dave Snowden again kindly came back with an appropriate critique: The fact that order exist in nature (a constrained system that prevents agent action independent of the system) …
And more on Cynefin
Another trail following up on Dave Snowden‘s comment to my previous Cynefin post, and specifically to this one assertion of Dave’s: Order exists in the real world. Sounds obvious: but does it? Does ‘order’ really exist? Or do we simply …