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Organization (of a company) is a very complex subject and difficult and therefor often changing process in the real companies. May be you was wondering why the organisation of your company changes so often. It is because organisation is something dynamic, and this property grounds on two important things: There is no feasible optimum structure of an organization to determine. Second, the environment of organization changes every day.

There is no Optimum

Of cause there could be no optimum, because you never have the complete information about the environment. Even if we would have all information about the environment, this will get soon to old and not valid. Furthermore the complexity of real world environments can’t be modeled even in 100 or 1000 years. So the model has to be relative abstract to be handle and calculable.

Dynamic

I already wrote about dynamic of economy which is the exterior environment of an organization. This dynamic of cause affects the organisation in it self. Then the organization should deal with changing environments, therefore it has to be updated often. Otherwise the organisation can be designed as dynamic and flexible, to minimise the reorganization processes by making them natural.

Dynamic Awareness

How to make an organisation aware of changing environments and markets, this is the question that matters more than ever. But this is also very difficult questions, and it goes through many aspects of a company. When i think about dynamic aware organisation, the following aspect appear as very important to me: organisation as a structure, staff and IT.

1. Hierarchies should be flat and maybe not really tied bound.
2. Companies should understand, that modern staff is not a resource in Adam Smith sense. Modern employee is hard to motivate, but hey should be aware of changes.
3. The IT of companies has also be aware of changes and reorganization. By changes i mean not only some stuff or department changes, but even the whole business process or parts of it.

This three Aspect stood at beginning of considerations of dynamic aware organization.I’ll will cover that aspects more deeply in the future posts. Feel free to comment.

Tags: change aware, dynamic aware, dynamic economy, motivation, organization

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