Re: Creativity in a sponge?

[Roger Key <roger.key@onet.co.uk@pop3.onet.co.uk>]

Hi There all
Some Brit wrote:-

>
>If we imagine the system to be a solid body then what is the best 
>shape?  We need to maximise surface area to volume.
>
>The spherical organisation will be the most stable but least 
>creative.  Minimum surface to volume.  Stability as delivered by 
>minimising variation?  I feel that this is the most apt model for 
>the system though - just feels right.
>

SO?

Why does an organisation need to be creative?  Why does it need to be 
anything other than stable with a bit of innovation around the edges. 
Many things are delivered by stable orgs and there is no problem in 
that.  The delivery of the post works well - despite the massive 
losses that are made by the org - I can send a letter from Lands End 
to John O'Groats (full length of the British mainland) as it costs to 
send it to the next village.  It costs me nothing to have my post 
delivered no matter where I live etc.  This is a process that works 
well and only needs addressing if you think that all things of social 
value should make a profit.

So I guess the shape of your org is dependent on what you wish to 
acheive.  If you are the post office then you may well wish to have 
an organisation that is typified by a sphere, however if you are XYZ 
Innovation and Creativity Corp you may well be hampered by the 
stability and lack of redundancy a sphere offers.

R
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