What does your organization do when the situation is too uncertain and too unpredictable to rely only on the ‘analyze-plan-implement’ approach?
Experience and judgement are also helpful but are reliable only if you have navigated the territory many times.
What is required is an iterative approach that allows learning and action to co-evolve; that enables “the situation to talk back”; that draws on the lessons and approaches of those who deal with this context every day – entrepreneurs, designers, researchers and developers. At Discerning Action we have synthesized these lessons and approaches into a framework we have called Adaptive Iteration. We believe Adaptive Iteration is central to improving the agility and adaptive capacity of any organisation or business.
We invite to you join us in exploring Adaptive Iteration through this blog and to contact us to discuss how we can help you.
Overview
- Why develop agility and adaptive capacity?
- What do we mean by Adaptive Iteration?
- Start-up stories of HP, Sony and Microsoft – Adaptive Iteration
- Principles for Adaptive Iteration – crystalized by a comparative review of similar approaches
- Approaches to adaptive change – a brief review
- ‘Routines of Agility’ deliver superior profitability
- Adaptive Iteration: a practical path to the ‘Routines of Agility’
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