The document discusses the relationships and meanings of creation, work, business, and industry. It defines them based on what is present versus absent for each. Creation involves generating something new, work is recurring creation for a targeted result, business adds economic compensation regulated by production, and industry involves large-scale continuous operations for a type of business. It also examines how environmental, cultural, and automation factors can variably affect and change the activities and their relationships over time. The primary issue is whether benefit can be engineered progressively and sustainably for all workers.

1. The Language of Work
Means and Motives of Progress

2. LABOR
Practical
Circumstantial
Adaptation
Potential
Alignment
Recovery
Things go through intentional change over time, because the experience of the present
generates reasons to examine whether we can influence things differently to obtain
different outcomes in the future. Achieved “difference” ranges across a wide spectrum
of Tolerance to Ambition, and of Less to More. The common vocabulary for this
intentional activity includes creation, work, business and industry as we move
intellectually from the local and specific to the global and general.
Progressive
Conceptual
Exploration
Modeling
Design
Experiments
experience
intention
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3. INDUSTRY
BUSINESS
WORK
CREATION
ORGANIZATIONLABOR
PURPOSE
CONTINUITY
ECONOMY
PRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT
The easiest way to understand the
relationships and meanings of creation,
work, business and industry is to
understand the difference between
what is there when any one of them is
present, versus what is not there when
any one of them is absent.
This differential definition yields a
hierarchy of activity showing higher
levels intentionally exploiting or
building on lower levels.
ObjectiveActivity
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4. PURPOSE REQUIREMENT
PRODUCTION
METHOD
(Mechanics)
DEVELOPMENT
ACCEPTANCE
(Criteria)
WORK
CREATION
LABOR Creative activity generates something
that wasn’t there before. Whatever that
result is, it continues to exist only
because it meets some criteria of
acceptance. It may or may not ever be
done again, which in no way diminishes
what creation is.
The transformation of Creation to Work
is essentially about deciding to do
creation on a recurring basis, usually for
a targeted repeating result.
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5. PURPOSE REQUIREMENT
CONTINUITY
SCALE
(Power)
ECONOMY
MANAGEMENT
(Rules)
INDUSTRY
BUSINESS
ORGANIZATIONLABOR
The transformation of Work to Business
occurs due to a decision to generate
economic compensation, which is
regulated at least for subsidizing the
consumption of resources by
production.
Business becomes Industry when the
distribution of work for the type of
business is intentionally arranged for
continuous operation at large scale.
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6. VALUE NEED
SUPPLY CONFIDENCE
TRADE INCENTIVE
RELIABILITY FULFILLMENT
DISCOVERY SOLUTION
INDUSTRY
BUSINESS
WORK
CREATION
ORGANIZATIONLABOR
Result Motive
Achievement is
recognizable,
qualitatively and
quantitatively, when
current experience
motivates intent to
generate an
appropriately
significant difference
evident in the
hierarchy of results.
PURPOSE
CONTINUITY
ECONOMY
PRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT
ObjectiveActivity
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7. INDUSTRY
BUSINESS
WORK
CREATION
ORGANIZATIONLABOR
REQUIREMENT
SCALE
(Power)
MANAGEMENT
(Rules)
METHOD
(Mechanics)
ACCEPTANCE
(Criteria)
Current intent,
subject to
change
Activity
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The easiest way to understand the
current versus future iterations of those
activities is to recognize what key factor
of each type of activity in the hierarchy
is most subject to being changed by
environment, culture or automation.
Not only can each activity type change
independently, but of course the
relationship of different types to each
other consequently becomes a variable
factor as well.

8. Environment
States
Inhabitants
Resources
Culture
Priorities
Knowledge
Assumptions
Automation
Processes
Technology
Intelligence
A wide range of factors are
independently variable attributes
of the current conditions
surrounding activities.
Typically we think of their
occurrence in terms of whether
they are relatively passive or
active in their affect on change.
They occur as potential inhibitors,
prerequisites, catalysts, or causes
affecting the intentionality of
change. Numerous forces or
events can change these factors
and, therefore, their influence.
REQUIREMENT
SCALE
(Power)
MANAGEMENT
(Rules)
METHOD
(Mechanics)
ACCEPTANCE
(Criteria)
Current intent,
subject to
change
The primary issue at hand is whether we are able to intentionally
engineer benefit in a progressive and sustainable way
for all those who work, not for some at the expense of others.
©2018 Malcolm Ryder / Archestra Research

9. PURPOSE VALUE NEED REQUIREMENT
CONTINUITY SUPPLY CONFIDENCE
SCALE
(Power)
ECONOMY TRADE INCENTIVE
MANAGEMENT
(Rules)
PRODUCTION RELIABILITY FULFILLMENT
METHOD
(Mechanics)
DEVELOPMENT DISCOVERY SOLUTION
ACCEPTANCE
(Criteria)
INDUSTRY
BUSINESS
WORK
CREATION
ORGANIZATIONLABOR
Objective Current intent,
subject to
change
Result MotiveActivity
©2018 Malcolm Ryder / Archestra Research

10. Archestra notebooks compile and organize decades of in-the-field and ongoing empirical findings.
All presented findings are derived exclusively from original research.
Archestra notebooks carry no prescriptive warranty.
As ongoing research, all notebooks are subject to change at any time.
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Archestra research is done from the perspective of strategy and architecture.
With all subject matter and topics, the purpose of the notes is analytic, primarily to:
* explore, expose and model why things are
included, excluded, or can happen
in given ways and/or to certain effects.
* comment on, and navigate between,
motives and potentials that predetermine
Decisions about, and shapings of, the observed activity.