Dysfunction

There seems to be a common thread in the world today, "things are broken". Furthermore there is a sense of hopelessness of finding a solution. Think of your last trip to a hospital. It seems as though bad decisions get made throughout your stay and you are unable to fix them. Are these truly bad decisions or is there some higher order reason behind them.

An extended enterprise operates in this fashion. There is no central control, who is managing the extended enterprise? This is truly systems thinking at heart.

In the context of net-centricity. There are autonomous systems connected together through a higher order global information grid. If a capability is composed on the edge there are relationships formed with these autonomous systems. But the system is autonomous, what if it mutates? This is a Demming concept. Can an entity at the edge compose or modify a process/capability? Demming would say no, the process a worker is in must be improved from a higher order. Innovation at the edge says that who knows more what is required for a task more than the knowledge worker at the edge. But does this break an overarching principle of interoperability or information sharing? Can innovation at the edge be captured through advanced architecture and tooling?

This post was created fast. but there are important concepts buried here. The ideas need to be articulated in a canonical fashion. This is the subject of further study.