Organic Design (kaizenexpert)

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Organic Design is a wiki site from , originally found at www.KaizenExpert.com (and released under the ), but now located at OrganicDesign.nz, with text now released under the (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Our vision is to see all of our world's inhabitants governing ourselves with an open, accessible and understandable global system which has as its bottom line the common good, and which we define and operate ourselves by effectively utilising and allocating our common expertise and resource.

Kaizen is an approach to productivity improvement originating in applications of the work of American experts such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Walter Shewhart, and of the War Department's Training Within Industry program by Japanese manufacturers after World War II.

Organic Design: Within the context of the informational age we live in today, the principles can be implemented in an interactive way which is easily accessible to all the people of any language from the grass roots level up. It's this modern informational implementation of the project which Organic Design has been set up to develop. It's is not simply another translation of the I Ching's phrases and metaphors into modern archetypes, but rather the idea of logically defining the principles from which these archetypes were built. This definition is a new kind of computer programming methodology which we call the nodal model on which a peer-to-peer collaborative applicational environment are being built. There are already many applicational environments, but they really only differ in superficial ways, what the bagua offers to this environment is generic organisation which is a simplified way of defining and managing any kinds of processes and systems, such as applications or organisations. This will allow us to move beyond the competitive, selfish growth model, which encourages centralisation and makes sharing difficult. Flexible, self-organising networks of people will be able to deliver effective and sustainable solutions.

When people connect directly with other people, and ideas and resources can be connected freely through this network, it will facilitate projects that allow people to cooperate in realising their potential for the benefit of both themselves and the whole of society. We propose that such a network architecture will allow people around the world to collaborate and share resources using a simple and engaging interface.

Sharing of information from person to person on a conceptual level, without geographical or language boundaries, will allow people to create enterprises and projects utilising currently idle resources, by finding others who have the missing resources or skills that are required. The cost of starting up would be greatly reduced due to the far more effective use of idle resources that information sharing makes possible. Also, as more people use this network, their overall requirements can be reduced due to the effects of 'economy of scale'.

The direct sharing of concepts through the network, will ensure that no time is wasted 'reinventing the wheel'. On the level of society this opens the door to increased creativity through people being able to build on each others' achievements, and extend existing knowledge easily.

Other benefits arise from the network's built-in awareness of the cyclic nature of change. Participants' activity cycles can naturally be synchronised, so that organisations and individuals can coordinate their resource usage cycles. Generally speaking, this allows people to achieve more with less. When the activity cycles of all participants are known as well as the potential of all processes to connect with each other, an evolving culture of synchronicity is fostered within the network.


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