Embracing and Auditing Complexity as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), ask this:

Embracing and Auditing Complexity as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), ask this:

  1. What does complex systems science have that General Systems Theory did not?
  2. The effectiveness of each of the preceding value added steps is evaluated as: does the user have sufficient context to be able to make use of this content?
  3. Does the system have a strong sense of path dependency?
  4. What function does systems science have within its larger system?
  5. Does your organization have the time for commitment?
  6. How does the strategy development process happen, in terms of complex adaptive systems theory ?
  7. What value does chaos have in organizations?
  8. How does AI enhance your capability of analysing complex systems and thereby make processes of decision making more adaptive?
  9. What does it mean to have a systemic approach?
  10. How does the system change as part of other complex systems?
  11. How does complex adaptive system theory inform innovation in complex project based organizations?
  12. How does the information address the system level legacy of scientific uncertainties?
  13. What does 2042 look like for your organization that is well on the way to a post carbon economy, with resilience to changed climate conditions / extreme weather events?
  14. As systems continue to get larger and more complex does the nature of architecture change?
  15. How does complexity emerge?
  16. How does your organization need to be designed to facilitate knowledge processes?
  17. How does the size of the project team affect the need for a development methodology?
  18. How does systems architecting fit in your organization and its processes ?
  19. How does the system change externally?
  20. Does the system permanently change into different equilibria?
  21. How does the theory of chaos and complexity play a role in complex adaptive systems?
  22. When does the system as a whole make an adoption decision?
  23. How does a complex adaptive system go about understanding what stimuli and feedback from its environment it should respond to?
  24. To what extent does a product returns system resemble a complex adaptive system?
  25. To what extent does the system recognize edits to programs?
  26. The meanings are amorphous and changing, and does that mean they are not useful organizing themes for government?
  27. What does it take for a system to exhibit complexity?
  28. Does the system consist of autonomous agents that act in parallel?
  29. What means does your organization use to communicate with personnel from other departments?
  30. Does the system adapt and does it produce emergent behavior?
  31. What of novel interest does putting adaptive in the middle of complex systems accomplish?
  32. Does a resilient system resist adverse conditions, or does it adapt to them?
  33. Does the system require an operations center?
  34. What does a system leader looks like?
  35. How does the system compare to related professional tools?
  36. What does it mean when you say that emergent systems display complex adaptive behavior?
  37. What mechanism does a natural system employ to organize itself with time?
  38. How well does the system work?
  39. Does the system exhibit chaotic behavior?
  40. Does the system anticipate the future?
  41. How often does the system adapt, how robust is it?
  42. How does emergence and self organization occur in organizations?
  43. What effect do you think the changes you make will have on the model?
  44. What do you hope to learn with a model that by design does not correspond to any real system?
  45. How does your organization improve to better deliver the identified value?
  46. Does conversation between people in a group follow the same patterning as a complex adaptive system?
  47. What is the political context of your organization and how does this affect knowledge management?
  48. How does your organization/service culture influence which domain you take a lead in?
  49. How does your organization search through all the combinations to find an optimal fitness peak?
  50. How does self organization occur?
  51. When your organization works with another organization, how does it assess the value of the partnership?
  52. How does change occur, when viewed from the perspective of complex adaptive systems?
  53. When does knowledge become organizational?
  54. To what extent does organizational culture affect interorganizational cooperation?
  55. How does your organization prioritize alternatives when any one or several of the alternatives are appealing and resources are limited?
  56. When employees leave your organization, how do you make sure the expertise does not?
  57. To what extent does or does not nature favour centralised network structures?
  58. How often does your department communicate with other departments?
  59. What type of controls do you have for the system, are they easy to use and are they enough?
  60. How does your organization select its suppliers and distribution partners?
  61. How could the system have worked differently to make it easier for you?
  62. How does trust affect the topology of supply chain network and its resilience?
  63. When does transformational leadership lead to higher team performance?
  64. How does organizational culture control the behavior of organizational members?
  65. How does culture contribute to organizational innovation and success?
  66. How does presence of a human operator companion influence peoples interaction with a robot?
  67. Why do other organizations differ, and how does it matter?
  68. What does this mean for your description of leadership in organizations?
  69. How do degree of connectedness influence co-evolution?
  70. How does the intervention contribute to reshaping a system?
  71. How does organizational structure relate to outcomes?
  72. What effect do you think your variables will have on the model?
  73. What kind of uncertainties now have to be taken into account when trying to manage complex adaptive systems in an uncertain environment?
  74. How deep and far does the systematic behaviour go?
  75. Can complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory help to identify and understand important learning successes and failures that the scientific adaptive management model misses?
  76. Does the system have a strong sense of path dependency?
  77. How would you forge a bridge between the largely tacit cultural knowledge of your organization and the largely explicit organizational memory system that should serve to preserve this knowledge?
  78. What practical initiatives have used complex adaptive systems approaches?
  79. What are the characteristics of the CAS as a new class of systems, and how can they address highly complex problems?
  80. How is a Complex Adaptive System Different from what you have done up to now?
  81. What do leaders need to understand about the nature of complex, dynamic, adaptive socio technical systems to create a resilient organization to improve performance?
  82. Can complexity theory anticipate precisely how a complex adaptive system in world affairs will organize itself and what trajectory its emergence will follow?
  83. How would you set up a system of rewards and censures to motivate knowledge workers to share knowledge?
  84. How do the elements in complex adaptive systems interact through the process of emergence?
  85. What reasons have caused you or your organization to change?
  86. How has complex adaptive systems thinking been used to inform leadership and organizational development in various sectors?
  87. How do you think systems thinking can best contribute to futures research and foresight?
  88. How centralised or distributed will your organization systems of provision be?
  89. What are the key steps you would need to carry out in order to conduct a social network analysis of your organization?
  90. How did the system react when one participant was removed from the group?
  91. Are individuals compatible with your organization and work group, and do they perceive they are?
  92. What is the impact of complexity theory on designing infrastructures?
  93. What kinds of systems would qualify as truly complex, and adaptive?
  94. Can complex adaptive systems thinking help management to improve collaborative networks?
  95. Which types of partnerships have been most affected by conflict situations?
  96. How would you analyze and diagnose where the system can be improved?
  97. Are you using sustainable, adaptive systems thinking for dealing with complexity and uncertainty?
  98. Which parts have a connection?
  99. Adaptiveness brings a system into a higher level of complexity, how do you automatically classify a response as a success or a failure?
  100. How do you measure progress and make sense of complex adaptive systems like corporate culture and business ecosystems?

Porendra Pratap

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom from Nizam College at Hyderabad Public School

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Hans Konstapel

Re-Searcher, Entrepreneur, Corporate Strategist,Senior Banking Manager, Corporate -IT-Architect, CSO,

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