The Future of Organization Is About Context-Specific Solutions

Dave Snowden: Next generation of organizing is about contextually unique solutions to emerge and adapt based on a coherent whole. The approach I'm coming from is complex adaptive systems theory, he says. But if you look at the last 30 or 40 years of management science, what you've actually had is a context-free approach,. He adds that it's more important to build informal networks than formal systems.