Posted by Susanne Williams on January 14, 1998 at 08:42:52:

In Reply to: Flow, diversity and connectedness posted by Denham on January 14, 1998 at 07:32:47:

Further to the churn / stability issue.

The mention of the transience was an attempt to approach that issue of there not being enough stability in the system to "root" the evolution.

Too much churn with too little stability, and you "wash out" the pool and you get fragmentation.

Although this looks like life and acts like life, (ie creative growth) is actually not very useful.

We have been finding this problem in client organisations where people have been encouraged to create, think, be innovative without the support or the interconnections.

It seems to be a species of information overload, and sees everyone rushing around very creatively but actually achieving very little of lasting value to the greater community.

So there seems to be a need for certain keystones...or seed stock...(to keep the analogy of the pond going)...around which the interconnections can grow and can harness all this good creative energy into the connections and translate it for access.

I'm developing this as we go on...there is also some stuff about water where a information is the river which swirls through the organisation's structures, theories-in-use, focal points etc. The eddies that are formed then become nodes for communities of practice.

There is more on this elsewhere in the forum...

I'm working on developing this into a way of introducing clients smoothly into the concepts behind KM KE without scaring them paralytic with the apparent complexity of it all...

Su

I'm trying to find a way to express the characteristics needed for life to evolve in the pond, and your comment definately helps.

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• Life and water Tom Sudman 10:59:13 1/14/98 (3)
  • Life and water & CoPs Susanne Williams 20:51:54 1/20/98 (2)
    • Re: Life and water & CoPs Mezei 14:43:52 1/24/98 (0)
    • Re: Life and water & CoPs Tom Sudman 15:46:13 1/22/98 (0)

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