Complexity Managementthrough
Structural Change©
By Alfonso CornejoAuthor of the Book
Complexity and Chaos:A Guide for XXI Century Management
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Why the Low
Performance of
Processes?
Structures
Because Structures…
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Structures
generate
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Processes…
Processes
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…and Processes…
ProcessesStructures
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…repeated many
times can…
Processes
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…create, modify,
transform Structures
Processes
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Structure-Process is a
co-dependent
duality
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with unstoppable
dynamic
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with movement, and
unintended
transformations
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that integrate in
Systems
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that interchange
information and energy
with its Environment
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A System…
System Frontier
Environment
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…that interacts at
different
levels
System Frontier
Environment
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…one of which
is Culture
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Environment
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Now…to understand
Behavior
System Frontier
Environment
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We need to look closely
to the dynamic
interactions
System Frontier
Environment
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Culture is not isolated
Struct Proc
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That explains why it is
not so easy to change
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And also that if you
want to change
Behaviors….
System Frontier
Environment
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Structures must
change….
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Environment
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And Culture counts….
as part of the equation
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Environment
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The System is not
isolated..is coevolving
whit its Environment
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Environment
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Structurally coupled
with its Environment
System Frontier
Environment
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With Systems at a
higher level
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System Frontier
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Environment
Structures Processes
System Frontier
Environment
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Structure-Process
Model means that…
Structures
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…If You Build it….
Structures Processes
System Frontier
Environment
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…They Will Come….
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Previous slides
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