HOW WE ORGANISE

The single most important element for today's strategies may be the structure and design of organization. The way we are organised plays a major role in our ability to search landscapes, alter granularity, and act on the information created by these activities. The level of our effectiveness will greatly depend on the structure and design of how we organise people, organise production, and organise the flow of information. Chunking is a proficient way of revealing both competences as well as, the structure and design of organization. Our ability to define competences in different ways and at different levels develops simultaneously with our ability to define specific units of organization. Each unit is actually an intelligent entity in itself, one that is able to independently search landscapes. Units may be anything -- individuals, cells or teams, disciplines, divisions, or an entire company. Each unit has its own unique possibilities for the exploration of local peaks and distant landscapes. Recombining of diverse interlocking landscapes provides robust adaptability.

One of the major questions facing today's corporations is, "What's the most effective way to organise to solve a problem as difficult as searching landscapes?" When we are confronted with the countless choices of our search, such as which of the many possibilities to invest in or what design approach to take in the production of an airplane, how do we organise to work toward the best choice? Or for a large company, that is continually improving, yet still losing market share, what should we do about downsizing or tackling major re-engineering endeavors?"