Comments on: Knowledge management: the newest battle between the neats and the scruffies http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jordan Frank http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/comment-page-1/#comment-24526 Jordan Frank Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:18:26 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/#comment-24526 I really like the Neat to Scruffy continuum here. The key concluding point here is that you "were a neat" and are becoming "increasingly scruffy." You are celebrating the creativity that comes out of a reduction but not abandonment of process or structure. I just posted a detailed note building on this point, specifically about the Yin and Yang of Enterprise 2.0</a>. A core structure, such as the one in the <a href="https://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Public1146" rel="nofollow">ShoreBank Case Study</a> example provides a leverage point upon which a group can Coordinate their Collaboration (Yin) in the Wiki while allowing for Collaborative Creativity and some Chaos (Yang) . I really like the Neat to Scruffy continuum here. The key concluding point here is that you “were a neat” and are becoming “increasingly scruffy.” You are celebrating the creativity that comes out of a reduction but not abandonment of process or structure. I just posted a detailed note building on this point, specifically about the Yin and Yang of Enterprise 2.0. A core structure, such as the one in the ShoreBank Case Study example provides a leverage point upon which a group can Coordinate their Collaboration (Yin) in the Wiki while allowing for Collaborative Creativity and some Chaos (Yang) .

]]> By: Jim McGee http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/comment-page-1/#comment-21271 Jim McGee Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:46:02 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/#comment-21271 I ultimately found complexity science in its current incarnation to be disappointing when I tried adapting it to organizational problems. I found the language system to be too ethereal for most of the managers that I interacted with. That's actually one of the reasons that I like the "neat"/"scruffy" labels; they're simple and evocative. It is, of course, about trying to find pragmatic balances. I ultimately found complexity science in its current incarnation to be disappointing when I tried adapting it to organizational problems. I found the language system to be too ethereal for most of the managers that I interacted with. That’s actually one of the reasons that I like the “neat”/”scruffy” labels; they’re simple and evocative.

It is, of course, about trying to find pragmatic balances.

]]> By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/comment-page-1/#comment-21157 Paula Thornton Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:12:28 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/02/knowledge-management-the-newest-battle-between-the-neats-and-the-scruffies/#comment-21157 Ah, but the science of complexity is in the 'in between'. It's the turbulent moving continuum between order and chaos. It's the edge of consistency amid change. It's just enough structure to facilitate order, but not enough to stifle creativity (itself, the middle between success and failure). It's not one or the other; it's not yin or yang. It's the intersection between the both, changing to optimize the conditions at hand. We tend to see the world as if everything were about choosing between two things. The real world is not about poles, but continuums between the poles. There needs to be structure, but componetized (ala. the architecture FAST has adopted). Where and how structure is introduced is the art of the science (see <a href="http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/06/21/the-philosophy-of-enterprise-20/" rel="nofollow">The Philosophy of Enterprise 2.0</a> Ah, but the science of complexity is in the ‘in between’. It’s the turbulent moving continuum between order and chaos. It’s the edge of consistency amid change. It’s just enough structure to facilitate order, but not enough to stifle creativity (itself, the middle between success and failure).

It’s not one or the other; it’s not yin or yang. It’s the intersection between the both, changing to optimize the conditions at hand.

We tend to see the world as if everything were about choosing between two things. The real world is not about poles, but continuums between the poles.
There needs to be structure, but componetized (ala. the architecture FAST has adopted). Where and how structure is introduced is the art of the science (see The Philosophy of Enterprise 2.0

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