Is anyone working on Real Time Organizational Modeling where the model continually evolves based on changes in the organization. All members of the organization contribute to the changes even down to the creation of an email, how the email contents affect the organization and how the recipients respond to the email. What I am looking for is the encoding of an organization such that as someone creates an email, an observer can watch this happening in the model and see the effect. Maybe the email has little or no impact or maybe it has a growing ripple effect.
This model should have a view of the entire organization including tracking all actions performed. I realize that trying to capture everything is a bit daunting but if possible it could yield incredible insight into how organizations work. I generally feel that most decisions made in organizations are made with such limited information that it is amazing that most organizations don't fail. Or is that they are a lot less brittle than one might imagine. I know that there is quite a bit of work done in more bit size pieces. I'm mainly interested in the much larger task of taking a company of 40K and tracking every action and interaction. And then by extension, actions connected outside of the organization. I know, huge, maybe impossible. Is there a way to adapt social networking concepts to an organization to help model it? Any ideas? Thanks John Hellier ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
