This is a topic that Interweaving often works with.
Instead of accepting unnecessary and often disrupting opposing points of views, Interweaving shift focus from "either/or" to "and" through inclusion, integration, synthesis, and harmonisation.
Let's Interweave!
The first dimension addresses the form in which one can find strategy, design, interweave or architecture knowledge (SDIA).
- Embodied knowledge is found in people and their minds, bodies, and emotions. Implicit knowledge can be articulated and externalised if needed. Tacit and implicit knowledge can be created and changed by internalisation or experiencing the world. Shared mental models and collective understandings can be generated and adjusted in a number of ways.
- Embedded knowledge is found outside people in physical objects, artifacts, procedures, practices, situations, and daily work routines. This form of knowledge can result from intentional design and deliberate actions but can also evolve or emerge from accidental decisions and actions.
- Explicit knowledge has been externalised for future reference and stored as pictures, sounds, tapes, text, diagrams, formulas, etc. Some explicit knowledge is semi-structured (powerpoints, canvases, documents), and some are highly structured and organised, such as models and simulations. Explicit knowledge can be communicated and shared amongst people and machines.
Interweaving recognises that strategy, design, interweave or architecture knowledge can be be embodied and embedded and not only made explicit in drawing and models.
The second dimension addresses attitudes towards strategy, design, interweave or architecture knowledge. To illustrate relevant attitudes, we use an illustrative life cycle influenced by the work of the grand strategist Henry Mintzberg.
The following attitudes show a simple yet professional language for more detailed work on strategy, design, interweave or architecture.
- Considered: one of the first steps is to think about, build, experiment, and test variants of a strategy, design, interweave or architecture. These are the manifold STIA under consideration. These are the manifold STIA under consideration (careful thought before making a decision or judgment about something).
- Intended: over time, intentions form, where people say that this considered SDIA variant is what they want and intend to realise.
- Deliberate: After decisions have been made, planning, preparation and deliberate actions can take place to realise the intended strategy, design interweave or architecture. At this time, the intentions are translated into actions which may subtle transform the intentions behind the strategy, design interweave or architecture.
- Realised: Some parts of the intended and deliberate SDIA are realised.
- Not Realised: Some parts of the intended and deliberate SDIA may not be realised. There may be time or resource problems that prohibit parts from being delayed or omitted.
- Actual: In the real world, we find the actual strategy, design, interweave or architecture, which is what it is regardless of intentions and deliberate actions. Sometimes the intended world looks like the actual world, but most of the time they differ.
- Emergent: There are parts of the actual SDIA the emerge and come into being independently and unknowingly from plans and intentions.
- Accidental: There are parts of the actual SDIA that emerge from all the accidental decisions and actions people do.
- External emergent: There are also parts of the actual SDIA that emerge from reactions to unexpected external events, problems, opportunities and challenges.
- Sensed: The real world and its actual SDIA can and often is sensed, perceived, experienced and measured. The experiences and measurements form another form of the strategy, design, interweave or architecture, which may differ from the earlier intended SDIA. Experiences and measurements may happen years after the death of the first strategists, designers, interweavers or architects.
- Interpreted: The experiences and measurements can also be interpreted, assessed and evaluated. These interpretations and evaluations form yet another form of the strategy, design, interweave or architecture, which may differ from the earlier intended SDIA.
We can now see and understand that there are many forms of strategies, designs, interweaves and architectures. And that a strategy, design, interweave, or architecture externalised into a document does not tell the complete story.
We are now ready to talk professionally and experience strategy, design, interweave or architecture!
Enjoy
/Anders