Organisational strategy is top-down, specific, defined and visible. Organisational stigmergy is bottom-up, loosely-coupled, always emerging and mostly invisible unless you know what to look for. Stigmergy arises when people figure out useful things to do within an organisation and implement …
I’m not interested in strategy. Strategy is boring. There are decades worth of thinking from some of the best minds and still we don’t know how to achieve things in a coordinated fashion through top-down command and control. Stigmergy. Now …
Create a stigmergy, not a strategy Sector transformation doesn’t need a strategy. A strategy requires a single coordinated vision and centralised control. The sector doesn’t need that. It needs different thinking. So, instead of a strategy, the sector needs a …
Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components Francis Heylighen https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041715000327
Stigmergy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
This week I did: What next? I started working on an interesting new product. It’s almost ready to go live, and I’m only just joining. It’s in a weird state of being important, but not important enough; of having been …
This week I did: Priorities The most interesting thing from this week was an opportunity for a partnership with a global digital brand. The question is, can we reprioritise effectively enough to make the most of it? This is why …
This week I did: Fall in love with experiments A new feature went live on the hearing check. It allows people who are busy or in a noisy environment to get a text message reminder to take the hearing check …
How much strategic thinking is necessary for leaders, especially if most of their time is spent directing delivery? Does a lack of strategy drive better stigmergy, and is that ultimately a better way for people to organise themselves?
One hundred ideas that are important to me. Reflective practice for digital work Technology charities Decolonising new product development process Andragogical learning Management as ethical interface logical reasoning and scientific method as tools for turning uncertainty to certainty Repetition, local …