Leveraging the power of Collective Intelligence & Emergence to drive positive change.
Organizations today face increasingly complex and uncertain environments. Traditional centralized, linear approaches to organizational change are falling short. Leaders need new ways to enable change and innovation. Emergence offers an alternative model for change based on principles of complexity science.
Emergence is the process where new solutions and innovations arise from local interactions between diverse agents in a system. Think of how an ant colony builds intricate nests through simple individual ant behaviors. Or how new social movements can rapidly gain momentum through individual sharing on social platforms.
Leaders cannot predict or control emergence. However, they can set conditions to influence the potential for beneficial emergence. Six "change dials" allow leaders to tune the conditions: diversity of views, drive for fitness, connectivity, safety, edge of chaos, and autonomy.
As connections between diverse agents in a system increase, a type of collective intelligence arises. Out of the interactions and differences, new insights, ideas, and shared intent can form. Rapid iterations of design-do cycles enhance collective learning.
The human ability to envision future scenarios (prospection) combined with collective learning through iterations provides the fuel for emergence of novel solutions that fit the environment.
In essence, emergence leverages collective intelligence. By convening diverse groups and linking them iteratively, their collected knowledge creates change. Rather than command-control, leaders allow change to bubble up from local interactions.
This requires a mindset shift - from prediction to sensing patterns; from parts to the whole; from planning to setting conditions. As leaders tune the dials to allow emergence, organizations can tap into their innate capacity for innovation and change.
The new Strategic Doing Networks (SDN) framework integrates Strategic Doing (SD) discipline by and Performance Driven Change (PDC). Collective Intent, Collective Prosoection, Collective Intelligence, Collective Action and Collective Learning are all key dimensions of SDN. Design-Do iterations enable emergent solutions.
Emergence is the process where new solutions and innovations arise from local interactions between diverse agents in a system. Think of how an ant colony builds intricate nests through simple individual ant behaviors. Or how new social movements can rapidly gain momentum through individual sharing on social platforms.
Leaders cannot predict or control emergence. However, they can set conditions to influence the potential for beneficial emergence. Six "change dials" allow leaders to tune the conditions: diversity of views, drive for fitness, connectivity, safety, edge of chaos, and autonomy.
As connections between diverse agents in a system increase, a type of collective intelligence arises. Out of the interactions and differences, new insights, ideas, and shared intent can form. Rapid iterations of design-do cycles enhance collective learning.
The human ability to envision future scenarios (prospection) combined with collective learning through iterations provides the fuel for emergence of novel solutions that fit the environment.
In essence, emergence leverages collective intelligence. By convening diverse groups and linking them iteratively, their collected knowledge creates change. Rather than command-control, leaders allow change to bubble up from local interactions.
This requires a mindset shift - from prediction to sensing patterns; from parts to the whole; from planning to setting conditions. As leaders tune the dials to allow emergence, organizations can tap into their innate capacity for innovation and change.
The new Strategic Doing Networks (SDN) framework integrates Strategic Doing (SD) discipline by and Performance Driven Change (PDC). Collective Intent, Collective Prosoection, Collective Intelligence, Collective Action and Collective Learning are all key dimensions of SDN. Design-Do iterations enable emergent solutions.
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