[FRIAM] Real Time Organizational Modeling

[Phil Henshaw]

John, I'm not sure what your background is, but I've been surprised by
what high confidence people here put in modeling, and how little
discussion of modeling strategies there is.  I doubt there's any useful
modeling method for organizations, since what animates them are the
currents of human ideas, not rules.   What distinguishes between an
email addressing a critical issue that simply goes dead and engages no
one, and an email addressing trivial matters that becomes everyone's
reference for a while, is completely unknown.


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> Is anyone working on Real Time Organizational Modeling where 
> the model continually evolves based on changes in the 
> organization. All members of the organization contribute to 
> the changes even down to the creation of an email, how the 
> email contents affect the organization and how the recipients 
> respond to the email.  What I am looking for is the encoding 
> of an organization such that as someone creates an email, an 
> observer can watch this happening in the model and see the effect. 
> Maybe the email has little or no impact or maybe it has a 
> growing ripple effect. 
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> This model should have a view of the entire organization 
> including tracking all actions performed.  I realize that 
> trying to capture everything is a bit daunting but if 
> possible it could yield incredible insight into how 
> organizations work. I generally feel that most decisions made 
> in organizations are made with such limited information that 
> it is amazing that most organizations don't fail. Or is that 
> they are a lot less brittle than one might imagine.
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> I know that there is quite a bit of work done in more bit 
> size pieces. I'm mainly interested in the much larger task of 
> taking a company of 40K and tracking every action and 
> interaction. And then by extension, actions connected outside 
> of the organization. I know, huge, maybe impossible. Is there 
> a way to adapt social networking 
> concepts to an organization to help model it?
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> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
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> John Hellier
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