Robert Warwick - Following a comprehensive literature review, heavily influenced by complexity sciences, we came up with seven essential criteria that are important to consider in an increasingly complex world, these were:

• Go out of your way to make new connections.
• Adopt an open, enquiring mind-set, refusing to be constrained by current horizons.
• Embrace uncertainty and be positive about change – adopt an entrepreneurial attitude.
• Draw on as many different perspectives as possible; diversity is non-optional.
• Ensure leadership and decision-making are distributed throughout all levels and functions.
• Establish a compelling vision which is shared by all partners in the whole system.
• Promote the importance of values – invest as much energy into relationships and behaviours as into delivering tasks.

This is a good set of guidelines (via David Hodgson) and useful for conversations around organizational change.

Connections: develop an active PKM process, which is reviewed from time to time

Open & Enquiring: practice critical thinking, questioning all assumptions, including your own

Embrace uncertainty: think of all your work as in a state of perpetual Beta

Diversity: “Human systems thrive on variety and diversity. ~ Esko Kilpi”

Distribute Leadership: think of leadership as an emergent property of your networks and not a permanent position in a hierachy

Vision: shared vision comes through trusted networks, however a clear vision is necessary, but not sufficient

Values: transparent organizations are better at sharing values but the initial design influences everything