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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness. .” People in them become victims of “the system.”

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change.

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The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management

Harvard Business Review

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Software company Rite-Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art "innovation engine" to unearth the organization's hidden genius. New lines of business created via the innovation engine account for 20% of the company's total revenue.