Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Discipline... - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Sep 08
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  Organizations can become more efficient in the short run by replacing costly, unpredictable problem solving activity with consistent, streamlined routines. However, this efficiency often comes at the cost of long-run adaptability. The more organizational activity is dominated by stable routines, the less the organization learns, and the more rigid and inflexible it becomes. To escape this fate, the authors of this working paper theorize that highly disciplined organizations must actively engage in strategic and selective perturbation of established routines.

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