fractal organizations part ii – object based complexity management

FRACTAL ORGANIZATIONSPart II – OBJECT BASED COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT

FATMA ÇINAR MBA, CAPITAL MARKETS BOARD OF TURKEY

Assoc. Prof. Dr. KUTLU MERİH

Systems as Complex Beings

Complex Systems characteristics

Complex Adaptation of Systems : CAS

Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems

Edge of Chaos

Self Orgnization & Emergence

Part I : Fundamental Concepts of Complexity Theory

Presentation Outline

FRACTAL ORGANIZATIONS PART II - OBJECT BASED COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENTSaturday, April 15, 2023

The Reasons of Object Oriented Approach

Description of the Objects

Organization as a Complex of Objects

Object Oriented Business Modelling

Organizational Agents

Sycamore Tree Diagram of Organizations

Organizational Sycamore Tree Agents

The CORTEX

(CBBC) – Complexity Business Balance Card”

Presentation OutlinePart II : Object Based Complexity Management


Business Modelling of Problem Areas

Performance optimization for companies has now become more important than ever.

Therefore, companies need to measure their performance in more realistic terms to make the best decisions.

Despite improvements made based on scientific models, current techniques fail to reflect the dynamics of current business environment.

Unfortunately, these techniques are stationary and in a structure that produces lagged outputs.

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Models Should Also Be Compatible With The Current Dynamic Environment

These models created for performance monitoring should also be compatible with the current dynamic environment in which the company operates.

They should also be compatible with factors which are important for competition, such as innovation and flexibility.

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Since the assessment criteria differ according to the sector's structure, sector-based sensitivities should be taken into account when formulating models. In this context, we can say that these models have the advantage of providing cost and operational gains of various alternative policies that can be tested without forcing the active processes of the company.

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Models Help To Save Time And Resources

In this way, the user-friendly business model considerably simplifies processes and also creates its own market.

Therefore, the success of modelling is embedded in the properties of modelling techniques.

Costly real life experiences can be reduced significantly.

Development of new techniques and changing insights based on data management (informatics) has become a necessity for organizational success rather than simply an option.

This approach is also suitable for users who are accustomed to utilizing object-based office programs.


Object-based features of computer software allow us to use

this feature for the modelling of business processes.


The Reasons of Object Oriented Approach

In this study, we propose an Object-Based Modelling based on information and Informatics as the most suitable model to realize subject approach.

Business concepts and techniques, and company processes are re-interpreted using a dynamic-cybernetics cognizance.


This approach is based on ComplexityTheory (PART I), Informatics-software development and Chaos Theory. This topic has been studied in detail by Kauffman Santa Fe Institute and many respective scholars (Holland, 1992).

Object Based Complexity Approach evaluates companies as Object Oriented organic and complex structures with informatics backbone, and not simply as mechanical and bureaucratic structures.


How Complexity Management Is Different Than Systems Thinking

Less emphasis on leverage points (and other mechanical metaphors) and more on emergence from patterns of interaction among people and groups in the system

Less emphasis on the leader’s influence and more on creating the conditions for self-organization, emergence, and generative relationships

Less emphasis on articulating a clear, shared vision and more on multiple actions inspired by a good-enough vision

Less emphasis on individual knowledge and logical thinking and more on creative adaptability among people and work processes

Less emphasis on changing the formal structure of organizations and more on informal communities of practice (and other rhythms that operate among people and work processes)

Less emphasis on knowing-in-advance and more on “tuning” to the environment, sense-making and building on “what works”

Less emphasis on competency-building or gap-closing and more on noticing attractor patterns, increasing information flow, working with serendipity, and shifting organizational boundaries

Less emphasis on budgeted resources and more on making what is needed out of the materials-at-hand

Less emphasis on a system outside of yourself and more on your participation in “co-evolving” both what you want and what you should creatively destroy


New Types of Organizational Structure


VİRTUAL ORGANIZATION

LATTİCE ORGANIZATION

SPIDERS WEB ORGANIZATION

HOLONIC ORGANIZATION

KINETICS ORGANIZATION

LEAN ORGANIZATION

COMPLEX ORGANIZATION


Object-Based Business Modelling

Business Objects constitute the foundation of Object-Based Complexity Management.

Every organization is a complex consisting of people.

Even an organization which is run by a single person is considered as a complex structured organization.

This is because complexity is not related with the number of the people, but the number of the necessary business processes.

The complex structure of the organization is composed of vertically and horizontally linked relationships of Business Objects.


A modern enterprise can be considered as a Mega Object

composed of Objects, which are themselves composed of

Objects.

Company As A Complex Of Objects

Our basic model of interest will be the Company Complex.

This is the intelligent modelling of complex and dynamic presence of main problem areas within the so-called company universe.

These problem areas, which make up the organic structure of the company, will be modelled as Objects.

In other words, entity and complexity have become synonymously identical in our model space.

This can be conceptualized

as follows:

a business entity is a

complex, consisting of

Complex Objects.


A sector that compromises several entities and the whole economy within the global system are also Mega Objects composed of units. An organization object can neither be detected nor interpreted irrespective of the objects independently (Habitat Effect). In other words, each object in the space of objects is the object of, or composed of their extension. Complexity Management perceives each individual of the organization as a self-governing administrator who governs, functions, time and relationships, as well as itself. In other words, a CEO and a warehouse keeper are similar objects, but whose roles and functions are different.

Industrİal Sectors Are Mega Objects


Architecture of Object: Properties and Methods


In conformity with the principles of Object-Based software; there must be parametric structure properties that define each object and a set of methods to determine their behaviour.

Thus, all business units of the organization and the people as well as their identity and roles in each position are clearly identified in advance.

Their level of success will be the Performance of Objects of the organization.

Accordingly, a business object should be considered as an active organizational unit whose job/duty definitions are well-defined and equipped with impulse and response capacity against specific reactions.

Each object is a dynamic and live organic-informatics structure, capable of receiving and recognizing impulses, and giving appropriate reactions.

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Attractors (not resistance)


An attractor is a pattern of behavior that emerges from the complex interactions of the parts of a system. After the pattern has emerged, it constrains the future behaviors of the system's parts. Corporate culture is a good example of an organizational attractor. It emerges from day-to-day interactions and ultimately determines day-to-day actions. Complexity managers recognize that people do not resist change. They are attracted to other patterns of behavior. To help an organization change, you must understand the active attractors and work within them to move to different and more constructive patterns.


Accordingly, software objects both host data and command against external stimuli (such as mouse clicks or using touch sensitive screens) and are interactive modules that can react.

These units, as in software, may be observed in organizations or in natural habitat.

Especially, the nature exhibits the perfect examples of object origin structuring.

All living things exhibit a structure originated from the basic object.

Naturally, the most complex structured basic object is the human himself.Objects Can Be

Seen in Natural Habitat


Complex Structure in the Active Object: Agent

The active object of objects of an organization are Agents.

Basic objects are the first to be determined by the sector the company operates and their business lines.

Following this process, new objects are created and hence active / professional agent objects are formed upon this expansion. I

In conventional management science these are sections and departments.


Control and Coordination Object of Business Objects: CORTEX

The function and dynamics of organizations are executed by Cortex which indeed is an Object of Control Coordination and Balance.

It is Cortex Object that employs all objects of the organization and information systems as a backbone.

Conventional management science calls this as management. In complexity management, Cortex executes the functions beyond the management.

We can observe an organization formed solely of a Cortex, but we cannot observe an organization without its Cortex.

Cortex is the most basic Object of Object based modelling. Modelling in our study will take place around the Cortex.


Cortex is the basic Object of all organizations.


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Object Based Organization Modelling starts with four basic organizational problem areas

1. Administration2. Procurement3. Production4. Marketing

These problem areas make up the organik structure of organization as basic objects

We model this structure as a Fractal Structured Fishbone diagram named as SYCAMORE TREE DIAGRAM



CORTEX

ENTRENEURSHIP

MANAGEMENT

PLANNING

CONTROL

CORDINATION

ADMINISTRATION

HUMAN RESORCES

FINANCE

ACCOUNTING

SUCURITY

TECHNOLOGY

PRODUCTION

PROCUREMENT

INVENTORY

MANUFACTURING

LOGISTICS

PRODUCT

Organization as Object of Objects

MARKETING

MARKET RESEARCH

PRODUCT

SALES

CUSTOMERS

COMPETITORS

LOGISTICS

PROCUREMENT

WAREHOUSING

SALES

CUSTOMERS

OUTSORCING


CORTEX Coordinated Relations Management Model: Sycamore Tree

Strategic business unit of the model is composed of Agents.

Two types of nested structure of business units are Agent-Objects.

All Agent-Objects are associated with Cortex and under its control.

Object relations with other agents, functional and strategic integration of operational

responsibilities, delegating integral business responsibilities (performance-project groups)

have a weighted impact on management processes of network units.

Agent-Objects integrated with informatics backbone of autonomous work groups constitute the

backbone of the system by jointly operating their own leadership to work in cooperation with

other operating business units from various levels.


It has also become more important for companies to optimize their financial performance and to make the necessary decisions via measurements in order to maximize benefits to the business. To serve this purpose, companies need to utilize Integrated Theoretical Application to transform their approach to Object-Based Integrated Enterprise Performance Management Model with real-time risk analysis.This makes measuring the real value of the company possible within the framework of integrated theoretical applications and integrated reporting systems.

Enterprise Performance Management Requires Integrated Reporting System


Sycamore Tree (Complexity Business Balance Card - CBBC)

Accurate perception and interpretation of Object-Based Business Modelling in a complex business universe will constitute the base for successful management.

The parts of the body in self-similar objects or components resemble the whole body.

The fishbone illustrates the unlimited coordination of objects before and after and the control and their internal balance.

Three-dimensional Sierpinsky pyramids are typical of this structure.

Each fishbone on Sycamore Tree diagram is the object of the objects.

In other words, the organic structure of the objectsis displayed as a fractal hierarchy among objects both vertically and horizontally within the matrix.

Our proposed Sycamore Tree diagram augmented with communication technologies, will give in-depth perspectives to the management through our operating business units approach (Merih and Çınar, 2013).


We propose Sycamore Tree (Complexity Business Balance Card - CBBC)


CBBC Diyagram Model Backbone of Sycamore Tree is Information Infrastructure


CORTEX

Stakeholder Relations Competitions Relations

State RelationsLANWAN Customer Relations

Information&Communications Technologies Product Relations

Innovation Relations Marketing Relations

Global Environment Relations Financial Environment Relations


CBBC For Balanced Dynamical Performance

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We need some certain criteria to refer to corporate balance. Criteria should be parallel with the strategies determined by the strategic management. To ensure that the strategy is well received, perception of change, studies conducted under the leadership of management, the definition of concepts, harmonizing the organization with the strategy, motivating people and all sub-factors related should be harmonized as a whole This can be achieved with the Complexity of Business Balance Card model and the Financial Performance Assessment Methods.


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