The article called; “Seeing Your Company as a System: Much-needed guidance on making companies more employee-centered, adaptive, and capable. by Andrea Gabor which appears in the May 25th, 2010 issue of Strategy+Business Online - largely describes the origins of my worldview, my work and the context I aspire for our company and its service-products: capability-by-design [...]
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In very few activities, do the true nature’s of both art and scientific engineering come together as equals in a finely honed craft. Watchmaking is such an activity. There is a innate recognition and a mastery of patterns… the patterns of the gears, the patterns of the ratios, the patterns of the durations required to [...]
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Please excuse my extended absence! I have begun a building project and it feels like a construction site around here! The project is our new venture; Capability Systems, Inc.
I intend to report in knowledgeer-at-large on the progress we make with CapSys on a fairly regular basis. Please watch for these reports. [...]
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Because the doer (in this case, a Capability Systems’s client company) knows what needs to be done; develop products, they are captive to the imperative: concentrate on developing products… (and in most cases adapt organizational processes in support of these development initiatives).
And because the function to do any activity naturally inherits a constraint of resources, [...]
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