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Organizational Design and sustainability
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VSI: Problem Jostle
VSI: Problem Jostle☜Task: to arrive at subject matter and membership of small working groups. ☜F1CEB7
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Phase 1: Generate SIs
Phase 1: Generate SIs☜Attach Statements of Importance (SIs) here. 1) Review existing SIs. 2) Attach unique SIs to Phase1: Generate SIs 3) add similar SIs as satellite circles to the SI they are similar to. See details for further instructions.☜FFB597
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Organizational Design and sustainability
Organizational Design and sustainability☜☜FFB597
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Stakeholder involvement
Stakeholder involvement☜All stakeholders (including employees) must feel compelled to act for the benefit of the organization (coercion doesnt elicit proper behavior)☜FFB597
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Adaptive Capacity in Complex Environment
Adaptive Capacity in Complex Environment☜Firms need to be organized and their internal processes managed to be highly adaptive to complex economic, social, and ecological environments that constantly evolve and are unpredictable. ☜FFB597
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Are new business cultures and new investment horizons needed?
Are new business cultures and new investment horizons needed? ☜☜FFB597
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Benefit Corporation Model (e.g., CA AB361)
Benefit Corporation Model (e.g., CA AB361) ☜Allows for specific model with social/sustainable metrics in charter of shareholder expectations that management is expected to respect or be held accountable by the BOD, shareholders, and customers. See http://www.green-technology.org/green_technology_magazine/index.php?cID=130☜FFB597
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Circular Power
Circular Power☜As a worker, I want circular power relationships rather than top-down relationships. Barry Clemson☜FFB597
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Data capturing to measure sustainability
Data capturing to measure sustainability☜☜FFB597
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Do we need to create new commercial models, new business models?
Do we need to create new commercial models, new business models?☜☜FFB597
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Embedding sustainability in manager performance measures
Embedding sustainability in manager performance measures☜☜FFB597
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Enterprise agility
Enterprise agility☜I believe that without agility no sustainability can be achieved (see explanation in the details) - Ilia Bider☜FFB597
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Implement Law of Requisite Variety
Implement Law of Requisite Variety☜As a CEO, I want my organization to implement Stafford Beer Viable System Model (VSM) to ensure decisions are adapted to reality (no remote decisions, only local ones, precisely informed by the local context), increases efficiency, efficacy, employees motivation, etc. - nicolas.stampf@gmail.com☜FFB597
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Inside client mind
Inside client mind☜I want to interact with companies who attempt to excel in services for customer/clients by understanding as clearly as possible their potential desires. - Doug McDavid☜FFB597
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Moral hazard
Moral hazard☜I want to interact with companies who eliminate moral hazard in their offerings and other dealings. - Doug McDavid☜FFB597
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Stay fluid
Stay fluid☜In order to sustain our firm and its stakeholders in todays environment, we need to adapt. Rigidity or lock-in reduces our ability to adapt. Much of habit, culture, and strategy is not liquid. (David Hawk)☜FFB597
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Sustainability rating index
Sustainability rating index☜Since sustainability is not reducable, I would like society to have a criteria system for rating sustainability of firms, and for my firm to address in annual reports how well they are meeting those social goals. --Tom Cuddy☜FFB597
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Check that the action is one that will not harm the company.
Check that the action is one that will not harm the company.☜☜FFB597
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TOO CRYPTIC
TOO CRYPTIC☜please expand so we know what you mean☜FFB597
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'Ideal form of the firm': Ideal to WHom?-- Thorbjoern Mann
'Ideal form of the firm': Ideal to WHom?-- Thorbjoern Mann☜Ideal might be very different from different perspectives: the founder/owner? the employees? stockholders the competition? customers? supply-chain providers? government (tax revenue..?) the environment? Should these aspects be explored separately in more detail?☜FFB597
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Barriers to company sustainability
Barriers to company sustainability☜What are the external and internal forces and institutions blocking the path to sustainabiity for the firm?☜FFB597
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Begin any change by making small steps, then verify emprically.
Begin any change by making small steps, then verify emprically.☜☜FFB597
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continuous consequences
continuous consequences☜Change the Words, Change the World ... measuring our good citizen worth across industries and in comparison with competitors -- money is not the standard -- maybe 10 points -- the global world and our world, our enterprise. Jean Wilson☜FFB597
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enterprise decisions made from "being" ... not "having"
enterprise decisions made from "being" ... not "having"☜means the enterprise is lived by Who I Am ... Not What It Owns ... basic best way to deal with wild cards, Black Swans, new Ice Age, ☜FFB597
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Global vs local
Global vs local☜☜FFB597
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Incubation platform
Incubation platform☜New companies get free standard services (accounting, benefits, taxes) until become profitable. Reduces hurdles, establishes responsible practices. (Myers)☜FFB597
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Market Failure
Market Failure☜Markets often fail, with and without government regulation. Without the external insertion of authority, markets only produce what individuals collectively demand. ☜FFB597
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Minimal dependence on debt Thorbjoern Mann
Minimal dependence on debt Thorbjoern Mann☜While companies need short term access to credit to cover investment and operational needs, too much debt will distort the performance picture, burden the company with interest payments. Especially the debt imposed on companies by buyout transactionsare detrimental.☜FFB597
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Retirement funds
Retirement funds☜Out companys contributions to retirement funds is initially be placed in a qualified sustainability fund and we seek such funds as choices and recommendations to our employees and partners. (And we coordinate our corporate investments with similar aims.) (Myers)☜FFB597
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search for new skills' families
search for new skills' families☜ Blinders and Blunders .. computer simulations and training bring proficiency to ....working with the machines. New brain research shows best decisions are made by combination of rational and emotional systems,Jean Wilson☜FFB597
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Small is Better
Small is Better☜I want a larger number of smaller firms rather than a smaller number of larger firms. Barry Clemson☜FFB597
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Socio-cultural/gender determinants of risk perception
Socio-cultural/gender determinants of risk perception ☜☜FFB597
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Sustainable Business Model
Sustainable Business Model☜This SI clusters many of the SIs relating to mostly System 5 functions -- culture, values, philosophy, business model etc.. ☜FFB597
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technology turmoil
technology turmoil☜ my iPhone kills people by the way it is manufactured globally -- nothing in the ideal firm uses humans as replaceable parts dealing with materials that cause sickness and death. Jean Wilson☜FFB597
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Transition to a sustainable economy
Transition to a sustainable economy☜This SI clusters the specific SIs for concepts and processes for the economy in which a firm seeks sustainability. Lets assume that our firm aligns with this broader system of change, seeking to optimize its own performance while contributing to the broader transition. ☜FFB597
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Transparency
Transparency☜☜FFB597
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Zero Waste
Zero Waste☜I want strong disincentives for producing waste or pollution OR strong incentives for NOT producing waste or pollution. Barry Clemson☜FFB597
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