The term meta is used because each of the models embraces many sub models some of which you may be familiar with and some not. The meta model consists of four categories used to describe the system state of an organisation. It partitions organizations into; 3. inner dynamics, 6. outer dynamics, 9. payoffs (to stakeholders) and grammar. The enneagram is a way of describing a strategy: either linearly as a roadmap, one step following another that begins and ends as follows; 1. organisational vision and 2. values, 4. envisioning future scenarios (priorities, impact and likelihood), 5. deciding upon strategy (strategies), 7. implementation and 8. monitoring and control of organisational performance. What is an organisation? What is an organisation? It is a system that is organized for a purpose (or purposes). In what follows organization may refer to small or large businesses, institutions such as governments, universities, religious institutions, governments and international institutions, the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, OECD, NATO. Alternatively, organization refers to subsets of all of the above; functional areas (marketing, finance, operations, resources), business units and departments within businesses, projects and project teams. Organizations are hierarchical systems Any organization is made up of subsets of itself. They are hierarchical systems. Large corporations for example are organized regionally, and each region may be organized into national entities, and national entities into business units and business units organized into functions, projects and within them teams of individuals. Such is the formal organization; systems within systems within systems; systems each consisting of connected subsystems. Large corporations are connected to others via alliances, partnerships, off-shoring, outsourcing, or be connected by mergers and acquisitions. They are also connected to governments and international institutions. Complex systems there are many many examples of complex systems; the universe, the climate system, the autonomic nervous system in mammals, the human brain, or indeed the brains of all living things, ecosystems, societies, cities, international relations and the European Union which as negotiators of Brexit are finding, much more complex than they imagined. The global
The term meta is used because each of the models embraces many sub models some of which you may be familiar with and some not. The meta model consists of four categories used to describe the system state of an organisation. It partitions organizations into; 3. inner dynamics, 6. outer dynamics, 9. payoffs (to stakeholders) and grammar. The enneagram is a way of describing a strategy: either linearly as a roadmap, one step following another that begins and ends as follows; 1. organisational vision and 2. values, 4. envisioning future scenarios (priorities, impact and likelihood), 5. deciding upon strategy (strategies), 7. implementation and 8. monitoring and control of organisational performance. What is an organisation? What is an organisation? It is a system that is organized for a purpose (or purposes). In what follows organization may refer to small or large businesses, institutions such as governments, universities, religious institutions, governments and international institutions, the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, OECD, NATO. Alternatively, organization refers to subsets of all of the above; functional areas (marketing, finance, operations, resources), business units and departments within businesses, projects and project teams. Organizations are hierarchical systems Any organization is made up of subsets of itself. They are hierarchical systems. Large corporations for example are organized regionally, and each region may be organized into national entities, and national entities into business units and business units organized into functions, projects and within them teams of individuals. Such is the formal organization; systems within systems within systems; systems each consisting of connected subsystems. Large corporations are connected to others via alliances, partnerships, off-shoring, outsourcing, or be connected by mergers and acquisitions. They are also connected to governments and international institutions. Complex systems there are many many examples of complex systems; the universe, the climate system, the autonomic nervous system in mammals, the human brain, or indeed the brains of all living things, ecosystems, societies, cities, international relations and the European Union which as negotiators of Brexit are finding, much more complex than they imagined. The global
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