ABCs of Organizational Improvement
The efforts to improve an organizational capability and increase collective IQ can be broken down into:
- A Activities Performing the day to day functions of an organization (“business as usual”)
- B Activities Attempts to improve how we do A Activities
- C Activities Attempts to improve how we do B Activities (“improving how we improve”)
Doug Engelbart proposes that in order to face an uncertain future an organization needs to evolve from a state of business as usual to state of constant improvement, an unfinished revolution.
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