Resources: Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
Extensively revised since the publication of Wholehearted, this white paper provides an overview of the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, an engaging and complexity-aware reconstruction of the Viable System Model, scoped to the digital-age organisation. This innovative model powers the following:
- The new book, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025)
- Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – instructor-led training in cohort-based and classroom formats
- The self-paced module Adaptive Organisation of Leading with Outcomes
- Various editions of the Adaptive Organisation assessment
Contents
Introduction
1. A relational approach
2. A model for every organisational scale
3. Between scales: the space between
4. Organising at human scale
5. What lies beneath: constraints
6. Discussion: not your grandfather's VSM
7. Related offerings
8. References and further reading
9. Acknowledgements
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Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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