Managing Change in Fractal Enterprises and IS Architectures from a Viable Systems Perspective

Piciocchi, Paolo; Bassano, Clara; Kirikova, Mārīte; Makņa, Jānis; Stecjuka, Jūlija

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“…To survive and grow in the dynamic environment with global competition for customers, capital and skilled workforce, a modern enterprise should be able to quickly adapt itself to changes in the environment, which includes using opportunities these changes offer for launching new products and services. This new enterprise environment has already attracted attention of researchers who started to consider an enterprise as a complex adaptive system (CAS) able to selfadjust to the changes in the environment [1][2][3][4]. The long-term goal of our research project is to create a practical methodology for modeling an enterprise as a multilayered CAS capable of self-adaptation without centralized planning mechanism.…”

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Untangling the Dynamic Structure of an Enterprise by Applying a Fractal Approach to Business Processes

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Perjons

Elias

2012

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Abstract.A promising approach for analyzing and designing an enterprise is to consider it as a complex adaptive system (CAS) able to self-adjust to the changes in the environment. An important part of designing a CAS model is to untangle the dynamic structure of an enterprise. This paper presents a procedure for identifying all processes that exist in an enterprise as well as their interconnections. The procedure makes use of a number of process-assets and asset-processes archetypes. The first ones help to find out what assets are needed for a particular process, the second ones help to find out supporting processes that are needed to have each type of assets ready available for deployment. The procedure is based on the ideas of fractal organization where the same pattern is repeated on different levels. The uncovered dynamic structure of an enterprise can support strategic planning, change management, as well as discovering and preventing misbalances between its business processes. The paper also presents an example of applying the procedure to research activities of a university.

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Untangling the Dynamic Structure of an Enterprise by Applying a Fractal Approach to Business Processes

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Perjons

Elias

2012

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Monitoring Viability and Sustainability in Healthcare Organizations

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The paper aims to advocate the incorporating of the sustainability perspective into the management control system of healthcare organizations. The study is based on two main premises: (1) the evolution of business models towards a wide perspective of the sustainability approach; (2) the evolution of control systems in healthcare organizations towards a control-based approach to monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of the service targeted primarily to cut costs and expenses. Our methodology is developed at theoretical and conceptual level starting from: (1) a literature review on the issue, highlighting main trends and gaps and (2) the adoption of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) as a conceptual framework oriented to integrate a wide variety of stakeholder perspectives and interests into the business model. Our findings lead us to introduce the Systems Viability Monitoring Model for Sustainability as a potential reference framework to build healthcare management control systems in which the notion of ‘systems viability,’ as defined by VSA, becomes a bridging concept by means of which the sustainability perspective can be incorporated into the management control system of healthcare organizations.

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Managing Change in Fractal Enterprises and IS Architectures from a Viable Systems Perspective

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Untangling the Dynamic Structure of an Enterprise by Applying a Fractal Approach to Business Processes

Untangling the Dynamic Structure of an Enterprise by Applying a Fractal Approach to Business Processes

Monitoring Viability and Sustainability in Healthcare Organizations

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