More or Less Useful is a series of seven discussions between Chris Heald and John Beckford exploring his interpretation of the supradiscipline of organisational cybernetics and its role in addressing contemporary challenges.
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Research into the principles of effective, intelligent organisation underpins all work at Beckford Consulting. Our rigorous, research-based approach to all projects ensures the development of transformational thinking to address your challenges…
When we talk about an organisation as ‘intelligent’ we are describing its ability to synthesise people, processes and information into a capability to co-adapt with the rapidly changing organisational environment.
Blogs are driven by observations of the world and interactions with other people, experiences that cause us to pause and think, to be amused or annoyed! Blogs are generally incomplete thoughts, not fully explored but intended to stimulate the reader to reflection
When it is a sequence………. Much has been made over many years of the importance of process and adherence to it. Sometimes a process gives certainty, comfort, consistency, reliability and other desirable outcomes, sometimes it becomes obstruction, delay or failure – ‘I was following process’. Then we find process has become ‘checklist’, adherence to the checklist has become the dominant
