OPTIONS FOR ORGANISATIONS

They can either radically change their current practices to intelligently reflect their complex business environment or stubbornly resist change and unconsciously fade into oblivion.

 

A RECENT EXAMPLE

During the aviation Covid crisis, do you think that a top-ranking Australian aviation company would have done differently if they could have intelligently measured and anticipated the consequences of their ill-conceived short-term decisions that favoured their shareholders over their experienced staff and ultimately their customers?

 

There was no sustainability maintained amongst their loyal stakeholders. In this case, the consequences of management not understanding the full scope of their complex business environment proved to be catastrophic to their brand and reputation globally. They may never fully recover.

 

​​A COMMON APPROACH TO FINDING SOLUTIONS

In reaction to complex business challenges, many managers avoid addressing the underlying influencing factors. Some may justify a quick-win solution as a viable option to reduce project costs, and time or potentially protect their “can do” reputations in their organisation. Some may ignorantly adopt a simplistic approach and wishfully believe they grasp their complex challenges well.

 

​​CATASTROPHIC FAILURES

The fact is that when an organisation fails to identify the real reasons for its given problem(s), the potential consequences often result in management negligent failures to eradicate the source of the problem and missed opportunities to provide lasting integrated solutions to business challenges.

 

The clear losers in such scenarios are the entire organisation and its broader community. It is no surprise that many organisations often try to fix a problem on more than one occasion and many spans their avoidable costly effort over decades.

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CHALLENGES OF A WELL-INTENTIONED MANAGEMENT

If an organisation decides to holistically deal with its complex problems: ​​

 

• How does it know how far and wide to go to uncover the underlying complex business influences?

 

• How does it know what these influences are and where to organisationally look for them?

 

• What effective methods could they use to measure, analyse, and solve them? 

 

SHORTAGE OF VIABLE TOOLS - Unfortunately, there are not many viable options available to management to help them deal with their complex business challenges. Most commercially available methods and tools are linear by nature, and they only do well in a static machine world and catastrophically fail when they are incorrectly adopted by management to holistically deal with the diverse and complex multifaceted organisational structures of today.

 

THE ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE APPROACH - A holistic method for identifying, measuring, and addressing both linear and complex aspects of organisations. For more insights:  www.organicinteligence.net.au