Lorenz, a meteorologist, postulated a Theory in 1962 called the ‘Butterfly Effect’ that gave birth to the modern Chaos concept. For 10+ yrs it was rejected as silly until others began rediscovering the findings too. In the late 70’s, science and engineers applied the concept to develop advanced products and model ecosystems but companies ignored its merits for another 20+ yrs.
Today an emerging business model is forming that centers on an organic approach to organizational architectures. The approach is to break the organization into small autonomous units centered on a process or product similar to a self-direct U shape work cells in J.I.T., activity-based accounting practices, or other constructs in the past. The difference is that these units are building blocks that have databases behind them and can be arranged in differing interrelated ways or networked manner. Information Exchange Requirements would establish links between them. Neural Agents could sit on top of the databases and monitor for specified content. These agents by communicating over the WAN could automatically create lines of logic or knowledge that is presented to decision makers.
The benefit of this construct is that companies would be more responsive to changing conditions. Unprofitable or obsolete building blocks could be disposed and the business would become evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The challenges are continuous and information is at the center of this architecture. It could on a wide spread basis minimize the impacts of economic down turns. More importantly, these autonomous building blocks could be ‘outsourced’ to small businesses that specialize in the service the building block offers.
As upcoming technology people, are you prepared to support this concept?