This paper presents an overview of a generic strategic approach which organizations can utilize to meet the rapid, complex, interrelated change encountered in turbulent conditions more effectively. The present approach is arrived at by “distilling” the principles embodied in leading edge...

This paper develops the concept of action learning in terms of holographic principles. It offers an approach to inquiry, learning, and organizational design in terms of minimum critical conditions which seek to enhance capacities for individual and collective self-organization.

Contends that the notion of disturbing a system as the best way to understand it has profoundly altered the traditionally rigid boundary between scientist and S. This idea has evolved to become a systematic and distinctive approach that emphasizes active engagement with clients and co-learning....

In today's fast-changing competitive environment, strategy is no longer a matter of positioning a fixed set of activities along that old industrial model, the value chain. Successful companies increasingly do not just add value, they reinvent it. The key strategic task is to reconfigure roles...

This article reviews a struggle to bring in futures-centred systems thinking into present complexities inherited from the past. This thinking is meant to inform actions that better obtain conditions for system viability in light of high degrees of uncertainty. A number of theoretical and...

This article analyzes the concept of complexity from an epistemological point of view, drawing a distinction between complexity (contextual complexity) and complication (procedural complexity). This article explores some organizational consequences of increasing complexity in organizational...