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When I see the categories defined as the needed ‘post-bureaucratic hacks’ , I can’t help to see it’s all about people and how people interact together, or better hacking the flaws in that context and about reaching goals, or better not reaching them as efficient or effective as we should.
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By Jimmy Van de Putte on July 7, 2021

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Ping - till- Perfect

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Limit organisation size to about 150 in a function-based federation.

Keep unit sizes and working contacts for each person down to about 150. This is known as Dunbar's Number which is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number . Broadly it is about the maximum number of people with whom someone can have a good social relationship. This would suggest organisations should be...

By Graham Douglas on July 4, 2022

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effective communication

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Create Dynamic Rules/ Filters

Create decision rules & guidelines that can be changed to reflect the processes that are working, make sense, resonate with workers.

By Dave Ungar on June 17, 2022

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Decision making process

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Delegate Authority to Process Teams and Provide Enterprise-Wide Decision Support to Improve Decision Success Without Bureaucratic Structure

Delegate Authority and Decision Making along with An Enterprise Decision-Support System to Improve Success and Minimize Decision Risk

By Phil Weinzimer on June 16, 2022

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bottom-up organization

efficiency and effectiveness

autonomy and trust

Collaborative Governance

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Smart Aggregated Information

Let an application create a net of full mesh information. This information pieces are
Questions
Answers
Ideas.
Each input item is tagged, thus the network creates knots. Knots can be bigger or smaller according to the importance they are assigned by management and staff. This is...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 13, 2022

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big data

information

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Meritocracy requires objective measures.

Common measures must be things like Quality (measure of returns or complaints), Delivery (on time and in full measure), Profit (% return on assets being exploited in their activity after liabilities have been considered) and finally Conformance (measures from audit to ensure agreed standards are being met and the Law...

By Julian Wilson on June 12, 2022

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performance measures

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Autonomy must be accompanied by accountability.

The organisational system must make individuals accountable for the assets and liabilities of their operation- luckily such a mechanism exists in the traditional business system and that is the Balance Sheet- a document where all the assets and liabilities are expressed.

Every individual must have a Balance Sheet applied...

By Julian Wilson on June 12, 2022

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balance sheet

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Have unconferences instead of formal meetings and presentations.

Have unconferences instead of formal meetings and presentations. Unconferences are explained at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference .

By Graham Douglas on June 11, 2022

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Unconferences

effective communication

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Creating flexibility by creating a “fractal” structure.

Individuals need to experience their working world as the business experiences the outside world- they need customer and supplier relationships with their peers and outside businesses, but not just that, they must also have investor and mentor relationships, and contractual and legal relationships too. These relationships must embrace the risks...

By Julian Wilson on June 11, 2022

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fractal structure

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Don't be a fiscal hog: Give every one a healthy slice of the budgetary pie

Instead of hording control of your budget, allow every employee to have discretionary control (and thereby responsibility) for a slice of the pie. The one area that is the scourge or bane of creativity is that every time you have a crazy idea, you have to run it by the...

By Aaron Anderson on June 8, 2022

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