FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE DESIGN – REQUEST FOR COLLABORATION ON ANTIFRAGILE

July 15, 2019

Sogeti Labs

The future is about speed and uncertainty (VUCA). The question is how our
organisations are going to deal with this reality.  “The average age of an S&P 500 company is
under 20 years” (cnbc.com). “The forecast is that
this drops to 14 years” (inc.com). What does it mean when
this drops under the six years average, for the strategic planning?

In previous blogs, agile and ecosystems were positioned in this context. But these two are not enterprise design methods. The key question is: How do we design companies so that they can surpass the industry average?

There is a possibility that antifragility
harbors design principles for this challenge. I personally am convinced after
reading the book Antifragile in  2013 that this is the field to study to find
these design principles. Chaos Engineering
(Netflix, Chaos Monkey) proved that
antifragile can be applied to IT Systems.

I am convinced that after applying the
antifragile way to IT systems, the application to organizations is the logical
next step. That is the reason that I am writing my master thesis on the subject
of antifragility and organizations.

My research is from the beginning open in line
with open
science and open
access, so that everybody can collaborate and validate
(Gitlab wiki & paper).

I want to invite everybody that reads this
blog, join in the quest for organisation design principles to let organizations
cope with the dynamic world we live in.

Please join in comments, improvements, tips,
critics, or just with a  <thumbs
up> 🙂

Looking forward to combine forces in this
complex field.

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Sogeti Labs

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