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7/10/2016
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Thinking About Constraints
Tony Joyce @tonyjoyce
Premise
Dave Snowden @snowded Jun 21 Helsinki, Finland tweeted
“We need to stop talking about governance and start talking about constraint management”
https://twitter.com/snowded/status/745169981776629760
My (almost sent) reply
Is governance akin to “best” practice? And what other practices do we need to
talk about?
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Constraint Management
Algorithm
Gut Feel (instinct)
Governance
From Wikipedia 2016
A complexity assessment
The Practices
Emergent practice
Constraint Management
Active engagement to overcome propensities,
reinterpretation of history
Good practice
Algorithm
Encoding of knowns, local coherence,
propensity to techno fetishism
Novel practice
Gut Feel (instinct)
Emergence from people + context, no predisposition, only retrospective
coherence
Best Practice
Governance
Within known contexts,
predisposed to status quo, stability
& avoidance
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Cynthia Kurtz’s Tetrahedron Models (relational energies)
Taylorism & hierarchical
management
Taylorism & hierarchical
management
Anthro-centric systems
Constraint Management
Algorithmic
Instinctive (naïve
experts) Governance
Syste
m p
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ies r
eveale
d
Syste
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Syste
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uppre
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Syste
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uppre
ssed
Amplify relations
Suppress relations
rituals designed to modulate decisions
rules designed to modulate behaviors
“We know more than
we can say” (Snowden)
“We know more than
we can say” (Snowden)
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tion
Inte
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