Internal organisation (like, of organisations yes I’ll continue to use the UK s not the simpleton’s z), wehn done on a (success) case basis, will fail.
Since it is reverse engineering. Capturing only what with hindsight is top-down design as if there was only the design, then clean execution. Yes, with some leeway for unexpected developments but those are support-hypothesis-taken back into the fold.
As if organisations didn’t develop (and by definition will have to develop) from the word Go (start-ups) to accomodate the imminent environment, growing by adapting.
Never believe ‘gurus’ (Semmler comes to mind). If you follow someone else’s teachings, you will not be enlightened.
Yes one can conclude something from studying current and past organisations. Make it Deming, Drucker (and Boyd), then. That level. Still having Mintzberg’s models floating in my head; after all those years, they still come back to be(ing) applicable to even today’s footlight organisations (secmed and others) – doesn’t it look like they all fall back into the fold of the previously famous, now neglected models?
Engineerability does not exist. Not of organisations, so much less for societies as a whole. See below’s posts on pacemakers; those that act as if they can engineer organisations/societies, only demonstrate their sheer total lack of insight (stupidity) by not seeing the enormous complexity of (oh so many) people-that-live-in-the-world-and-only-partially-Venn-overlap-with-work working together towards keeping up the organisation as much as fits their own interest. Even nudging doesn’t work, and is a cross-over between gaslighting and brainwashing, anyway.
Now, to continue re- and re-re-studying Mintzberg and the others from half a century back, to see what we can learn from them not Dunning-Kruger n00bs that babble about the Old Ones’ irrelevance (quod non, the opposite!).
After this, for your viewing pleasure:
[Your ship is moored on anchor in the back, being too big/inflexible; we are the flex ones in the front, pleasure sailing along quite nicely. Off Porto]