Digital technologies are enabling us to develop systems with huge numbers of interconnected components and sophisticated software that infuses them with seemingly unlimited capabilities.  And, they are profoundly changing the way all organizations operate, as well as our working and personal lives.  . We are not just passive observers.  MORE >>

You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: In 2003, when Nicholas Carr penned the piece “ IT Doesn’t Matte r “, an overlooked definition of what he referred to as ‘infrastructural technologies ‘ may now be, in 2012, unintentionally defining the relationship between IT and the organization. MORE >>

Interestingly, that's how many people used to think of electronic information systems - as mechanisms into which you input facts to facilitate easy discovery and retrieval. The computer, or online systems (such as Minitel) were visualized as giant electronic libraries, with the sum total of the world's knowledge at our disposal. Third. MORE >>

For complex systems, for innovation efforts, for creativity – process engineering is not only the wrong approach, it is a mistake.  It may be People, Organization, Technology; although we should not be in a rush to replace a failed triplet with another.  But radical new organizations are possible and are in fact happening.  MORE >>

“A System is a set of variables sufficiently isolated to stay constant long enough for us to discuss it. JeanHouston – “It is as if a worldwide nervous system is in the works. At the same time, the networked individualism operating system requires that people   gain new social skills to operate within it. MORE >>