AGLX Thinking

Posts about Complexity:

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Oops The “certainty merchants” are starting to be found out. In this part of the world Deloitte has recently been snapped using some shoddy AI

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How organisations can evolve in the face of uncertainty In a world where complexity is increasing and certainty is in short supply, traditional approaches to

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The Necessity of Adaptive Strategy in a Complex World Being strategically adaptable is not a luxury—it is a requirement. Every company, regardless of size or

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The result of a conventional strategy is often a big list of things to do. This list combines the things we are already doing with

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Adaptive Strategy is best presented visually. Just as a map allows an explorer to make sense of the landscape and plan a potential path forward,

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Image by Freepik At the heart of an adaptive strategy is the question – how do we maximise our potential? This question is independent of

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We are very excited to announce that AGLX Asia Pacific has now opened an office in Singapore. Zhen Goh joins our team as Managing Director

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We are pleased to announce that Dave Snowden, the creator of the Cynefin framework, has joined AGLX as an advisor. Dave Snowden is a globally

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Purpose Recently, Santa has noticed changes in his strategic environment and wanted to ensure that his organisation was resilient in the face of these changes.

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Within the OODA loop, Orientation is what makes You You. What Makes You You. Cognition, consciousness, and perception of reality are emergent properties of Cultural

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AGLX’s MD Steven McCrone was recently interviewed on The Salience Podcast, a podcast which takes a “dive into the frontiers of advanced human performance.” Apple

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Steve is co-writing a book on complexity thinking with JP Castlin, due for release next year….watch this space. He was interviewed by Shann Biglione and

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Our Managing Director, Steve McCrone was interviewed for the podcast and YouTube channel Being Human in May 2021. Being Human is a podcast aimed at

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There are big shifts going on in the energy and utilities sectors, with changes in the social licence to operate and the rapidly shifting economic

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While Social Distancing is used as a constraint to slow the flow of the novel coronavirus, the flow of (dis)information through our distributed social networks

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Chances are you have never picked up and read his Aerial Attack Study—an Air Force official document that codified aerial maneuvers for pilots interested in

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John Boyd’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop is often associated with fighter aviation where a human straps on a machine (fighter aircraft) and competes against another human-machine

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Back in 2014, when the July 2013 Scrum Guide was current and before the book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half

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If you consider Information as the critical currency that needs to flow unimpeded within any team, then psychological safety is the lifeblood that transports this

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I was introduced to Constraint-Led Approach a few weeks ago during the Navy’s Complexity Workshop. At the workshop, I was shown the book, Constraint-Led Approach:

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PLANks: A hands-on and fun Team Development Intervention approach that targets the leadership and teaming skills behind organizational resilience, safety, and agility. We call it

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Gouge: Lexicon borrowed from fighter aviation used to describe the essential lessons, tricks of the trade, skinny or poop, or inside scoop on what really

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I think the next century will be the century of complexity. -Stephen Hawking I’m happy to share that a grassroots effort to embrace complexity and

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The Oxford Review recently published a special report on High-Performance Teams now available on oxford-review.com. From 8,100 peer reviewed research papers, Dr. David Wilkinson and

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From counter-terrorism to counter-errorism, the OODA loop and Cynefin framework are informing leaning-forward military strategists to safety analysts on how to navigate the complexity and

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Naval aviators gathering this week in Reno, Nevada for the 2019 Hook Convention and the 50th anniversary of TOPGUN may learn a little about Apex

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Many industry leaders found themselves in complex environments that had silently overwhelmed their traditional ways of operating. 20th century business practices that relied on process

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In the few weeks since Planet Lean published an introduction to the The Flow System™, responses from around the world have been extremely positive. As