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Emergent Organizational Development and Change (EODC)®



What Is An Emergent Organization™?

An ‘emergent organization’ is an organization which co-creates the ‘conditions’ where;

emergent trends, patterns and determinates become apparent, are influenced more fluidly and naturally, and

where ‘change’ itself is viewed and experienced as a normal, continuous, emergent, real-time process.

“Rather than continually ‘planning change’, organizations and people just live it.”

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Planned Change, Event Change, and Emergent Change®

“The dance may change but the song stays the same.”

Most change management ‘programs’ or efforts seem to be always ‘behind the eight ball’ (reactive) where ‘change management’ becomes another ‘here we go again’ project, and is merely added to the list of ‘to dos’. This is 20th Century thinking.

‘Planned change’ (e.g.; ‘many change management models’) is mostly a step-wise linear model in which the organization has to fit into, or a special ‘event’ (e.g.; ‘Dialogic OD’) that occurs once in a while to fix something, to change something, or to improve something (culture, an issue, a business process, an organizational area of concern).

The organization does not change – it ‘corrects’ to another static position.

‘A’ changes to ‘B’

… while the world

has moved to ‘F’.



Emergent Change® “Emergent change is the shaping of continuous ‘forms’ by internal and external influencing patterns and determinates. That which emerges may be further shaped into further continually evolving patterns. Emergent change is universal, infinite, and the essence of creation.” (Patrick A. Trottier, 1995)



Emergent Change®

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What about Strategic and Operational Planning?

Even with strategic and operational planning there are hurdles, challenges, strategies and opportunities that emerge and shift as situations emerge and shift.

How one designs their organization makes

a big difference in working with planned and

emergent change…



Why Are Emergent Organizations Able To Be Created Now?

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A. Disruptors In Technology – a revolution; quantum computing, predictive

analytics, algorithmic self-learning and decision-making support, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, pattern display interface, etc.

C. Increasing complexity and rate of change in the world, and in the worlds of organizations and business environments.

B. New thinking, perspectives influenced by new technologies, new norms, diversity, market, world trends / patterns, new generations, etc.

Answer:

The technical capabilities, influencing conditions and drivers now exist

- where they did not exist before:



It is a “Brave New World” driven by novel technology and the integration of different theories and disciplines to deal with chaos, complexity and rates of change…

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COMPLEXITY

“Out of chaos emerges patterns and form.”

“Out of complexity emerges simplicity through patterns and form.”

“Out of form emerges purpose.”

‘On Emergent Change - Patterns’, Patrick Trottier, 2012)



What is Emergent Organizational Development and Change (EODC)®.

EODC® can be simply understood as ‘co-creating the conditions’ within an organization so ‘change’ becomes apparent and influenced more fluidly, naturally and is viewed and experienced as a normal, continuous,

real-time process.

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Thus,

EODC® develops ‘Emergent Organizations™’.

“Rather than continually ‘planning change’, organizations and people just live it.”



The EODC® Platform: FOCUS: Re-Framing

Business and Organizational Perspectives

Regenerated Business Model

Renewed Organizational

Alignment

Novel Forms of Organizational Design

Integrated Business Systems and Processes

Integrated, Open Information Streams Self-Forming Agents

Re-Framing Business and

Organizational Perspectives

Re-Framing Business Model(s)

Re-Framing Organizational Focus

Novel Forms of Organizational Design

Integrated Business Systems

and Processes

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People Meaningful Dialogue Purpose / Principles

Intentions A Living Vision

A Living Culture Emergent Change



People Meaningful Dialogue Purpose / Principles

Intentions A Living Vision

A Living Culture Emergent Change

The EODC® Platform: FOCUS:

“How do you achieve Strategic / Operational alignment and ‘cultural fit’.”

“What key business and organizational elements need to be included and revitalized in your business model(s)?”

“How do you use internal and external information to understand patterns, trends, and to enhance emergent thinking, strategies and decision-making everywhere?”

“How you ‘see’ yourself, your business and your organization is what you will create.” (Trottier, 1994)

“How do you achieve functional integration for effectiveness, efficiency and to create value streams everywhere?”

“What novel organizational forms will manifest your business model(s), strategic focus, cultural fit and collaborative relations?”

Re-Framing Business and

Organizational Perspectives

Re-Framing Business Model

Re-Framimg Organizational

Focus

Novel Forms of Organizational

Design

Integrated Business Systems

and Processes

Integrated, Open Information

Streams Self-Forming

Agents

“How do you ‘link’ your organization together through information streams to manifest collaboration, self-forming agents, desired culture and value-driven networks?”

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The EODC® Platform - Detailed



EODC : Moving hierarchical, siloed organizations toward interconnected, functionally integrated, collaborative, value-driven network forms.

Natural, collaborative, value-driven, interconnected networks of self-forming agents.

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Traditional / Current Across / Traditional 21st Century Integrated Self-forming Networks



An Example of an Emergent Organization™

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Design

Internal / External Analytics and Pattern Display Interfaces OPEN INTEGRATED SYSTEMS Cloud Computing Algorithms / Predictive Analytics / AI Augmented Reality - Virtual Reality Social Media

FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION FEEDBACK LOOPS

“We Are A Value-Driven Network”

Example: A Social Media Pattern Display Interface

For Brand Identity and Pattern Density

DATA PROCESSING Information Integration

Trends - Patterns Influencers - Disruptors



Pattern Thinking™ (vs. linear thinking)

Pattern Thinking™ supports human

information processing to understand

emerging trends and patterns that influence ‘emergent change’ and

effective decision-making.

Think of the picture above as a ‘gif’ showing moving weather patterns over time like you see on the news. (sorry, but a pdf does not show ‘moving gifs’.) How many words, numbers would it take to describe this moving weather pattern .. A million? 1000 pages of words and data? How long to understand such, if at all? The human brain naturally functions in ‘holographic patterns’. This is why EODC® focuses on pattern interface displays, human information processing , and integrated information streams for 21st Century organizations



EODC® - Some value brought to an organization Re-framing organizational and business perspectives.

Natural adaptation and fluidity to complexity and rapid change.

A revitalized business model.

Strategic / Operational alignment.

Cultural ‘fit’.

Energized and collaborative relationships – a ‘can do’ attitude.

Innovation through diversity.

Functionally integrated business systems and processes.

Open, integrated Information streams and systems interconnecting the organization and its environments.

Predictive trending, patterns into effective decision-making and self-forming agents – ‘leadership’ emerges and is everywhere.

Profitable strategies and business growth - more profit, less headaches.

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Words of wisdom, and an understanding

of my journey into ‘emergent change’

in the last 20 years…

Patrick A. Trottier



Summary

The EODC® Platform co-creates a shift from a hierarchical, mostly static organization into an integrated, collaborative, network organization that is continually emerging and forming with the changes, complexities, opportunities and challenges of its internal and external environments.

The EODC® Platform co-creates ’Emergent Organization™’.



About Patrick Trottier

https://goo.gl/kr6PVY

https://goo.gl/kr6PVY



EODC PLATFORM

Emergent Organizations™: An Introduction To Emergent Organizational Development And Change (EODC)®: https://globaltransforming.wordpress.com/

The Emergent Organizational Development and Change (EODC)® Platform: https://goo.gl/7jiOo4

As well as topics such as; ‘A Living Culture’, ‘A “Living Vision”– Emergent Organizational Development (EOD)®’, ‘Culture As A Core Business Strategy’, ‘The Practice Of Strategic and Generative Dialogue’, ‘Approaches to Consultation: The Four Basic Models’, ‘Beauty (Cultural Congruency) and the Beast (The Culture Gap)’, ‘Creating Readiness For Desired Change and Development’, ‘Emergent Change vs. Planned Change‘, ‘Rethinking Resistance’… and more…

Patrick Trottier and Associates

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For more information and contact:

https://goo.gl/7jiOo4



https://globaltransforming.wordpress.com/

https://globaltransforming.wordpress.com/



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