Intelligence vs. Complexity

The intelligent things may not always be complex, but a critical level of complexity is required for intelligence to appear. "Intelligence" is from Latin word “intellego” -Inter-lego: Bind together, read between the lines, or connect the dots. Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory,...

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Creativity vs. Intuition: Does Creativity Stem from Intuition

There is a link between the two, creativity and intuition. Creativity is an innate process to create novel ideas. Creativity is in all functions (thinking, sensing) and works best if all functions are allowed to do their job. According to Wikipedia, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word intuition comes from Latin verb intueri which is usually translated as to...

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Resistance to Agile

The right agile message: "let's start where you are and we'll equip YOU (team) to figure out how to get even better.” Resistance to change is the phenomenon when more and more organizations adopt agile as a business philosophy and project management, what’s the root cause and how to overcome such mentality? Learning agility: Company has started an agile transformation. One of the most critical points organizations ignore in their transformation...

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An Ecosystem Mindset

Everything is interconnected and the Earth "thinks" as a giant ecosystem. An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants, animals, and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment. The "ecosystem" is a generic name for very specific types of existing ecosystems such as wetlands, woodlands, savannas, and deserts. Also, no single ecosystem is identical to any other, but all have unique and identifying characteristics....

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How to Simplify a Complex Organization

Complexity is not just a phenomenon, it can be perceived as the property of a system. How to manage business complexity becomes one of the top agendas for today’s corporate management, though complexity does not always mean the bad thing, design complexity or collaboration complexity are the key digital factors in business competency.  Still, simplicity is the ultimate level of complexity, to make things simple, but not simpler.  But...

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Why Is It So Difficult to Eliminate Failing Projects?

The success rate for IT project is very low, for every organization managing multiple projects, there are inevitably some projects that should be discontinued and the resources need to be re-allocated to higher value purposes. However, that rarely happens in many organizations for a myriad of reasons. Instead of concentrating resources to complete major projects quickly, team members worked inefficiently on several projects at once - often...

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Are you Experiencing Global Leadership Drought

You must always give a person his or her pride and dignity. This is the basis of leadership. There are many multi-national companies, but very few global businesses; there are quite many multinational managers, but even fewer truly global leaders. Some say, even worse than brain drain, there’s leadership drought? What makes a global leader, versus a domestic leader? How are the skill sets different? Openness: An open-minded mentality and...

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Dots Connecting: Business Model vs. Business Plan

Business Plan" follows "Business Model." A business model is why this business works; it is a multi-level, zoom-able schema of how a business or an organization creates, delivers, and captures value for stakeholders: Customers, businesses, investors, or society. A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information...

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What is the ideal Digital Organizational Structure?

Humans progress is made through three stages: dependent, independent, and interdependent. Due to the hyper-connectivity of digital nature, the trend toward a softer and flatter organization structure is clear. And surely it is the right direction, as speed is a key imperative these days and “silo” mentality as a product of rigid hierarchy hinders flexibility. However there are certain limits from an organizational design perspective, and there...

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Trans disciplinary Science

"Trans" is a Latin noun or prefix, meaning "across," "beyond" or "on the opposite side." Complex systems science is not a science in itself, but it may be considered as a 'Science of Sciences.’ Or more precisely, are we ready to recognize a complexity science as a "trans-disciplinary Science" and apply it to understand the dynamic digital ecosystem?  Non-linearity, adaptability, unrepeatability, unpredictability, and denial of control: Evaluation...

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