Design for Chaos. How to embrace chaos and complexity as a resilient organisation.
Creators: name: Botjes, Edzo
name: Eusterbrock, Ton
name: Nouwens, Hans
name: van Steenbergen, Marlies
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Enterprise Architecture
Complexity Science
Antifragility

description: Our world is becoming more and more connected, driven by the need to make the production of goods and services more efficient. This results in the transport costs of capital, knowledge and goods becoming almost zero; New innovative technologies being created non-stop and never forgotten on the internet; People being constantly exposed to instantly available (new) services. The volatility of these three factors creates a neverending uncertainty. Our current methods within Enterprise Architecture need to support this complex and volatile reality. This is only possible by embracing the constant chaos. The only type of organisation that gains value from the exposure to chaos, is the antifragile organisation. This is in contrast to a fragile, robust or less resilient organisation. This white paper investigates the concepts of unpredictability and chaos and provides design attributes to help in the evolution from a resilient organisation to an antifragile organisation. This is not easy matter to understand, nor to act upon, but it represents our current world. We hope this paper is a first step in comprehension. Which is a necessary step to progress towards sensible action.
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