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Welcome to our blog articles on Orgtology, Orgamatics, and Organamics. To post blogs on this site, you must be an Orgtologist or a Orgtology Specialist, or you must be registered on a training programme of the IOI. All blog articles are moderated.

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20 July 2021

Developing a business model

Strategy Development and Implementation

One of the aims of a model is to create a simplistic understanding of something. An architect will create a model to visualise an end-result. A mathematician could create a model to ease calculations for others. For organisations, we create a busines...

28 June 2021

Defining the organisation and creating its identity – strategy from an orgtology perspective

Strategy Development and Implementation

The first phase of any strategic process must always be to know who we are and then to decide what we want to do with that. The strategic process thus begins with an understanding of purpose and intent. E.g., there are many boxers in the world and th...

26 June 2021

The strategic process – an orgtology perspective

Strategy Development and Implementation

To succeed, any organisation must thrive in a fast changing and dynamic world. The effect of this is that strategy must be intelligent and dynamic. It might be that much of what you know about strategy is obsolete. Research shows that old ways of cre...

13 June 2021

Orgtology Q & A

Practical Application of Orgtology Theory

On first acquaintance, orgtology might seem like a new name for old shoes. This is not the case, since orgtology has specific assumptions about organisation. These differ significantly from traditional organisational thinking. Executives who use orgt...

28 May 2021

Change Management – an orgtology perspective

Practical Application of Orgtology Theory

Change is what makes life possible. The human ability to create intent beyond purpose is what sets us apart from the normal evolutionary change that occur in other animals. I.e., we can be revolutionary. E.g., a hawk can choose to catch a rabbit...

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Derek Hendrikz

20 August 2018

How to engineer a process construct

Organisational Design

Does one design or discover a process? To manifest, purpose must become a process. Therefore, there is purpose before process. When we create a process, we explicitly depict a purpose. It is our idea ...

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Derek Hendrikz

10 April 2018

What is Orgamatics?

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Derek Hendrikz

03 April 2018

What is Orgtology?

General.

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Derek Hendrikz

01 September 2018

The difference between a target, an output, and an outcome

Organisational Design

In life, we measure much of any person's worth by what they achieve, after they have achieved it. In some sense, targets, outputs, and outcomes all do this. Why then should we know their difference? W...

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Derek Hendrikz

10 July 2019

The EOP Analysis – redefining how we understand organisations

Strategy Development and Implementation

EOP is an acronym for Exposure, Opportunities, and Process. It replaces the old SWOT analysis. SWOT means Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. As with SWOT, the EOP aims to help us under...

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