Gavin Ritz, in an interesting message, refers to the Law of Requisite
Variety. Because I'm sure some will ask, "what the heck is that?" I
thought I'd provide one pretty straightforward answer.
The simplest statement of the Law of Requisite Variety that I have heard,
in an organizational context:
The complexity of the internal structure of an adaptive (self-organizing)
system must be of the same order of magnitude as the complexity of the
external environment with which it must cope.
Businesses have found this to be true, much to our chagrin. As we grow,
and the global marketplace becomes more complex, and competitors more
clever and numerous, we find that we have to be more complex in order to
succeed.
--"John Gunkler" <jgunkler@sprintmail.com>
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