[FRIAM] Real Time Organizational Modeling

[Phil Henshaw]

What you choose to measure is like a choosing a one dimensional 
slice.  You would like more than one.   You'd like some that cut 
through all behaviors and some that localize others.  The main thing 
is just getting ones that don't change definition unexpectedly and are 
easy to record.

People have been monitoring things by many means for a long time, 
certainly, but not as autonomous systems for the purpose to reading 
their feedback loops switches.   The reason I say that is not just my 
ignorance of many of the methods others have used.   It's that the 
principle that things that can't divert their positive feedbacks fail 
internally, going turbulent or blowing apart, is still widely 
unrecognized.  That says nobody but me, apparently, has been watching 
how and why that happens.

> 
> 
> The major concern in organizational real time monitoring is choosing 
the  
> correct and most useful indicators.  At UNDP for whom I worked for 
years we  
> constantly monitored both organizations and projects.sometimes with 
models,  
> sometimes without.  The choice of indicators clearly skews the 
results and  future 
> decisions and developments.
>  
> Actually systems biologists do use models to study natural systems 
whether  
> it be species, evolution of species or ecosystems.  I seem to recall 
a  
> computer model programme called SAS (?) that was used to model 
evolution of  species. 
>  That was in the late 1980s.  It was very cumbersome and  slow.
>  
> I am particularly interested in models applied to politics and how 
to  
> achieve progressive change and adaptive management strategies.  Has 
anyone  used 
> these kind of models?
>  
> Paul Paryski
> 
> 

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