Chaos or Order and not the only State in Organisational Design

An Agile World is Possible in Enterprises

Karl A L Smith
2 min readJun 4, 2021

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An Agile World is Possible in Reality and Dream Enterprises as its not a framework but a cadence.

An Agile World is based upon a cadence that ties all activities together to create an operating rhythm whereas individual frameworks are focused on practice adoption. This single difference establishes a critical path for interaction and working practices that supersedes an absolute practice of one way of working and embraces the true chaos of all ways of working, but focuses on alignment not conformity.

Chaos or Order and not the only State in Organisational Design

By becoming a cadence based organization enterprises are focused on communication rather than enforcement of one way of working. All practices and ceremonies must first engage with a common cadence before being enacted or in many cases allowed to persist. This enterprise wide cadence establishes transparent touch points for engagement and transaction. Mavericks are allowed provided they can prove where they fit in to the whole living ecosystem and become accountable to the rest the organisation.

In an Agile World, work regardless of what it is can then be tracked, predictable, forecastable, planned, delivered and evaluated. And when unplanned work arrives is is quickly visible and swarmed over to ensure it is understood, by everyone and the right participants engaged early. Work itself has a chain of custody and accountability all the way from inception to value evaluation and ROI calculation.

Agile World concept of an integrated Agile Ecosystem of Business and Technology with Vendors affords our clients a unique opportunity to experience timely and focused constant delivery regardless of their business, most suitable in software development and manufacturing (as a replacement to JIT).

This is a living and growing concept first established in 31st March 2006 by Paradigm Interactions Inc. through Karl Smith the chief strategist that seeks to define the ecosystem that makes an Agile World and exposes opportunity to support and engage in the evolution of an Agile World.

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Karl A L Smith

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