Operational principles for organizational intelligence
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Image: a scene from Spy Games Organic organizations naturally exhibit something mechanical organizations invest a lot of money, time and energy to achieve: organizational intelligence. Most efforts to achieve this unavoidably fail. Why they fail deserves a longer piece, for now just briefly: they use the wrong tools and they miss some things. Tools, being mechanical processes themselves, are mostly wrong: we can’t expect a bureaucratic organization to become an innovation powerhouse by adding more processes to their arsenal.
Operational principles for organizational intelligence
Operational principles for organizational…
Operational principles for organizational intelligence
Image: a scene from Spy Games Organic organizations naturally exhibit something mechanical organizations invest a lot of money, time and energy to achieve: organizational intelligence. Most efforts to achieve this unavoidably fail. Why they fail deserves a longer piece, for now just briefly: they use the wrong tools and they miss some things. Tools, being mechanical processes themselves, are mostly wrong: we can’t expect a bureaucratic organization to become an innovation powerhouse by adding more processes to their arsenal.