The potential for a network to generate huge social (and economic) change is where the really big payoff lies. By activating roles! It never takes more than a few minutes into a conversation about networks: the question always pops up, “How does a social network create value?” Let’s take an example of a throwing a party. MORE >>

Very significant changes were imminent and they were trying to get a handle on what they needed to do for the restructure. More of a little story than a case study This is from a video interview of Verna Allee on Value Networks and Complex Reorganization. My work was with the benchmarking phase of redesigning their technical support process. MORE >>

Why phase changes instead of stage gates? This means that a successful phase change must involve at least a couple of roles that were active in the previous phase. More accurately these four network patterns can be thought of as phase changes in a single innovation network. Is innovation organic or managed? MORE >>

But if that particular role was not there or someone else took on that role the whole dynamic of the network could change in - well, in a heartbeat. A Living Systems Approach to Network Performance Organizations are complex adaptive systems. People organize their work according to the pattern of life itself – the network. MORE >>

Like living organisms, these networked systems have identity, intelligence, cognition, and unpredictable responses to changing conditions. In this live session, Dennis O’Donoghue will explain how Boeing’s Flight Validation and Test Organization has employed the principles of living systems to effect profound, rapid change. MORE >>