An Organization Is A Set Of Relationships

The Nature Of An Innovation Is That It Will Arise At A Fringe Where It Can Afford To Become Prevalent Enough To Establish Its Usefulness Without Being Overwhelmed By The Inertia Of The Orthodox System.

Much Of Outcomes Research Is A Systematic Attempt To Exploit What Is Known And Make It Better.

Preserve The Core, And Let The Rest Flux. In Their Wonderful Bestseller Built To Last, Authors James Collins And Jerry Porras Make A Convincing Argument That Long-lived Companies Are Able To Thrive 50 Years Or More By Retaining A Very Small Heart Of Unchanging Values, And Then Stimulating Progress In Everything Else. At Times "everything" Includes Changing The Business The Company Operates In, Migrating, Say, From Mining To Insurance. Outside The Core Of Values, Nothing Should Be Exempt From Flux. Nothing.

But In Fact, When You Try To Model That On A Computer You Find That Because Of The Very Structure Of Matter And Of The Chemical Bonds That Are The Basis Of Every Organism, Evolution Is Not Random At All. It Will Tend To Follow Certain Paths.

Technology Is All The Accumulated Usefulness That Our Minds Invent.