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1. THE
COMPLEX ADAPTIVE
ORGANIZATION

2. THE COMPLEX ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION
As enterprises and organizations grapple
with growth-induced change and an unpre-
dictable global economy, rigid and outmod-
ed organizational processes and structures
are ill equipped to deal with the complexities
fostered by those changes. The answer is to
transform into a complex adaptive organiza-
tion.

3. DISCOVERING THE COMPLEX ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION
Methodologies that transform an organization into one that
changes with its environment, adapts to unforeseen events, and
makes complexity itself a sustainable, competitive advantage is
said to be a complex adaptive organization.

4. COMPLEXITY CREEP
Complexity creep is when complexity infiltrates
organizations bit by bit in ways that are hidden
or even ignored. This leads to stubborn rising
costs, unmanageable unpredictability and
uncertainty as well as stagnant decision
making.

5. COMPLEXITY CREEP
Complexity creep is when complexity infil-
trates organizations bit by bit in ways that are
hidden or even ignored. This leads to stubborn
rising costs, unmanageable unpredictability
and uncertainty as well as stagnant decision
making.
KEY PRINCIPLES TO
DEVELOPING A COMPLEX
ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION
Using applied complexity theory
and complexity management,
self-organization, and emergent
behavior methodologies, businesses
can start the transformation process
to a complex adaptive organization.

6. EMBRACING THE NEW REALITY
Our new global economic and cultural reality is
one of serious shocks that are interdependent,
complex and unpredictable. Solutions to the
complexity issue come from embracing it,
managing for it, and building systems to
accommodate it and adapt to it rather than
trying to remove it.

7. LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
Adaptive leadership traits are the engine that propels an organization’s
transformation toward a Complex Adaptive Organization by creating an
organizational culture of emergent behavior. This means among other
methodologies, giving people and teams goals, a few parameters and some
tools with the freedom to create their work environment and methods.
This is opposed to outmoded, non-adaptive leadership structures that attempt
to exert rigid control over people, processes, and technology in a futile attempt
to constrain complexity.

8. WHY BAND KIDS GET IT
A marching band that must learn and navigate
complex performance parameters week after
week serves as a perfect example of a com-
plex adaptive organization. The shared traits
they exhibit are: purpose, emergence, simple
rules, leadership style, competency-based
leadership, networks, feedback, flexible en-
sembles and adaptability. If band kids get it,
then those of us in businesses can surely em-
brace and adapt to the complexity of the new
business reality.

9. COMPLEXITY CREEP
Complexity creep is when complexity infil-
trates organizations bit by bit in ways that are
hidden or even ignored. This leads to stubborn
rising costs, unmanageable unpredictability
and uncertainty as well as stagnant decision
making.
PARTNERING WITH MSS CAN YIELD
BIG TRANSFORMATION
By using careful and granular analysis and
then holding up a mirror to organizations,
we can collectively identify the challenges
of complex organizations and the ways in
which they are holding back your business.
We can then provide the customized
methodologies, processes and technology
that build the clear structural change that
transform people, processes and
technology to create an adaptive complex
organizational structure.

10. EVEN BIGGER REWARDS
As a transformed organization that embraces change and complexity, you are
structured to maximize efficiency through transformed processes, people, and
technology in ways that create transparency, better communication and most
importantly, a healthier bottom line and business structure.

11. ABOUT MSSN
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consulting firm in one of the fastest growing cities in the
country? If so, contact MSS – a top regional management
consulting firm.
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