1. Design Outcome
Dynamic
Design Platform
Emergent Fused-Use
Process Framework
Complex
Adaptive
Organization Systems Information
Technology
The Whole Smart-Web
Brain Team Collaboration
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2. c
From:
“A Complex Adaptive
System”……
To:
“Emergent Process”
Because CAS exhibit Synergy
and Self-Organization, and the
outcome is continually
Emergent
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3. emergence
emergent intent
Emergence refers to what arises out of the depth of complex
interactions – more specifically the Agents, Strategies and
Artifacts interacting in the depths of the system with the
Externalities and Latent-Potential to create a new Higher
Order System.
When adjustments are made after each emergent possibility
arises, what we see after the second or third emergence is a
development that would have been absolutely inconceivable
from the perspective of our initial understanding.
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4. emergence
form emergent
The complex adaptive system as a
“field of intent” becomes richer,
fuller, denser, and more integrated
It will ultimately achieve
dynamic/punctuated equilibria
When the system is “vesselled”
in a specific context…
Form will begin to emerge spontaneously and
naturally
This form will be highly integrated, differentiated,
back
intelligent, and adaptable
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5. LANDSCAPE OF AN EMERGENT
PROCESSto Initial Conditions
Sensitivity
Seed/Germs
Butterfly Effect
Edge of Chaos
Fractal Form Strange Attractor
Bifurcation Points Punctuated
Dynamic
Equilibriums
Collapse/ Step Down Stability
Perking Information
Complex,Non-Linear,Dynamic Adaptive Systems
Amplification
Self-organizing Vortices
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6. EMERGENT TOOL CHEST
ANALYTIC
RELATIONAL
INFLUENTIAL
EMERGENT
IMPERATIVE
INVENTIVE
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7. EMERGENT TOOL CHEST
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8. EMERGENT TOOL CHEST
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9. FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPLEX-
ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS to death.
Equilibrium is a precursor
The creative “sweet spot” for a system is at the
edge of chaos.
At the edge of chaos systems self-organize and
new forms emerge.
Complex systems cannot be forced along a
linear path.
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10. EXPERIENCING COMPEX-ADAPTIVE
SYSTEMScomplexity transforming into higher level simplicity.
Low level
High degrees of freedom resulting in high degrees of “self-
organization.”
Disorder, destabilization and the movement away from equilibrium
as a prerequisite to the emergence of higher order form.
Small changes having large effects
Having a design and a process plunge into chaos only to
experience the organizations “core identity” interacting with
the environment to produce a stunning new form of order.
Experiencing how positive feedback on a “fluctuation”
compounded through several iterations can produce an
outcome that could not even have been imagined at the outset.
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11. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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12. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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13. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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14. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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15. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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16. THE STRANGE
ATTRACTOR
The system has infinite possibilities, wandering wherever
it pleases, sampling new configurations of itself. But its
wandering and experiments respect a boundary.
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17. THE BUTTERFLY
EFFECT
A small fluctuation may
start an entirely new
evolution that will
drastically change the
whole behavior of the
macroscopic system
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18. SEEDS AND
GERMS
The “germ” is the point where the
amplification takes place.
A germ is the point from
which the creative
seed flowers.
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19. POSITIVE / NEGATIVE
FEEDBACK
Simple information can complexify into new forms just by
being fed back on itself -A process of “evolving feedback”-
elaborate levels of differentiation and scaling are created
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20. “LAWS” OF EMERGENT PROCESS
Catalyze….Motivate….Cultivate…….YES!
Predict….Control….Manipulate…….NO!
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21. The Design Dynamic:
IMPLICATIONS
What we will do….
We will be your Guide through the
landscape of Emergent Process.
What’s the payoff….
Running an Emergent Process will move the
system to it’s highest adaptive capability.
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