Last edit: 05-03-17 Graham Wideman

Intelligence and Change in Enterprises

This page presents a series of models useful in considering key aspects of enterprise operation, thinking and change.

Typical Enterprise

Here are the basic features in a typical Enterprise, showing its primary features and relationships.

Enterprise Experiences External Change

Typical Enterprise experiences change from a number of external sources. In addition, change may be motivated by the desire to take better advantage of existing (ie: not-necessarily-changing) external conditions.

Enterprise Deals With Change

The following model sketches the activities of an organization in a milieu of change.

To deal with change, the enterprise has to:

• Think
  • Understand the enterprise's own state and trends, and those of customers and suppliers
  • Understand the state and trends of relevant parts of the environment, such as competitors.
  • Plan reactive or proactive changes
• Do
  • Implement Changes: Implementing change usually entails a bubble of complexity and activity that is generally "packaged" into the form of a project.

Each of these two area are pursued further on related pages.

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