The Future of the Company

concepts that help us to understand what is going on

Utrecht, December 11th 2013.

Frans van der Reep

Cape Town

Context creates

Meaning.

Recursion creates meaning

Are you guided by

understanding or by ideology?

• Mental Models change

• Business Logic changes

• New Technologies

• Changes accelerate

Do we really see what’s going on?

Get ready to get real……

What happens

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Push oriented Pull oriented

TOPDOWN ICT PLANNING

MARKETING

POLITICS

OPEN/ SOCIALS

PROTOTYPING

SALES

COURTS OF JUSTICE

NEWSPAPER

EUROPEAN RULING

PRIVATE INITIATIVES

REFERENDUM

INNOVATION PLANNING

What is happening in the business arena?

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Push oriented Pull oriented

Focus on Continuity

Rule based Behaviour

Focus on Flexibility

Principle based Behaviour

Big Companies

Small Companies

We need new Infrastructures

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Push oriented Pull oriented

Enabling Infrastructures

‘Pipes’

Enabling ‘the Economy’

‘Apps’.

Companies become projects

by independent contractors

OUTSOURCING

CORE-EXCELLENCE

BPM

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Who’s my PAL

COMMUNICATIONAL EXCELLENCE

MANAGEMENT & CONTROL

CONTROL EXCELLENCE

simple complex

dynamic environment

static environment

We need new words

simple complex

Digital World: The Personal Age

Place:

Maintainer,

focus on what

is known

Space:

Entrepreneur,

focus on what is

unknown

visible certain

static

invisible

uncertain

dynamic

Best Practice

Enlarge quantity

Architecture:

Space and

Place

Right

Practice

Control Hold grip

Best

Practice

Enlarge quantity

Shared

Practice

Outsourcing

Delegate

Next

Practice

Enhance

Relationships Trust

Architecture: Company Reference grid

Vision Assessment

Design rules

& Solution

Scenario’s

Develop

ment

Implemen-

tationMaintenance

Business

Process

Application

Data

Technical

Infrastructure

Organisation

& HRM

Operational capabilities

References:

Designing Process, Looking Back from the Future, CSC Research Services

Journal, 2003, p.54-57

Peter van den Heuvel, Unified Organizations. Do you fit in? BPTrends, October

2010

Peter van den Heuvel, Ron van der Lans, Willemien Nagel, Visualisatie geeft

Houvast, Business Process Magazine, nummer 8, december 2006

Dick Markvoort, Deliberately Choosing Simplicity, BPtrends, December 2010

Social Media and Social Companies, BPtrends.com, november 2010

Overview Publications Frans van der Reep

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