Steve,
aren't living organisms systems, after all? don't living systems store
memories? Aren't memories the knowledgebase of living systems? Isn't it
cognitive (or emotional or kinetic, etc) thinking (whether tacit or
explicit) that drives the use of memories within the living system?
If there is any analogy here, why can't or shouldn't there be a means to
store organizational memories (experiences and thoughts) with which to
enrich the organizational approaches to new problems, new experiences and
future planning? It seems to me that the inclusion of an memory system
within an organization may facilitate their increasing growth towards
becoming a living system.
regards,
Richard
p.s.. one of my references for framing this perspective includes David
Bohm's "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" and the other is my familiarity
with the concept behind the "memorybase" we use at OutSights.
>Human endeavor requires human interest. Regardless of some "new" system
>design, without a common interest in the capturing and use of these four
>categories by the vast majority of the organization, the potential value
>is negligible.
>
>In the military, as in many organizations, standing operating procedures
>are developed. In a learning organization these are "living" and grow
>(quality) with each learned experience. Why does there have to be a
>"system?"
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