John, I'm not sure what your background is, but I've been surprised by what high confidence people here put in modeling, and how little discussion of modeling strategies there is. I doubt there's any useful modeling method for organizations, since what animates them are the currents of human ideas, not rules. What distinguishes between an email addressing a critical issue that simply goes dead and engages no one, and an email addressing trivial matters that becomes everyone's reference for a while, is completely unknown.
Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hellier > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] Real Time Organizational Modeling > > > 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 > > ============================================================ 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
