Paradigm Shift

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Organizations are seen as adaptive organisms that strive towards equilibrium under ever changing environmental conditions. Paradigm shift is metaphor originating from the systems perspective resulting in many new directions. When we take a step back from the details and look at the story from a high level perspective, we see how a new technology, the telegraph in that case, introduced a paradigm shift in organizational design. The organization itself have to change the way it is organized and operates. Forward thinking organizations seize this as an opportunity to grow and expand. In recent years we are witnessing significant changes in the way we work and communicate. There is a huge acceleration in technological innovation, which in turn leads to change in culture, work habits, legislation, as well as in individual and organizational behavior. Some of these changes represent revolutions that could, and possibly should, foundationally change the ways that organizations are structured and how information flows within them. In other contexts, representing the notion of a major change in a certain thought- pattern — a radical change in personal beliefs, complex systems or organizations, replacing the former way of thinking or

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Organizations are seen as adaptive organisms that strive towards equilibrium under ever changing environmental conditions. Paradigm shift is metaphor originating from the systems perspective resulting in many new directions. When we take a step back from the details and look at the story from a high level perspective, we see how a new technology, the telegraph in that case, introduced a paradigm shift in organizational design. The organization itself have to change the way it is organized and operates. Forward thinking organizations seize this as an opportunity to grow and expand. In recent years we are witnessing significant changes in the way we work and communicate. There is a huge acceleration in technological innovation, which in turn leads to change in culture, work habits, legislation, as well as in individual and organizational behavior. Some of these changes represent revolutions that could, and possibly should, foundationally change the ways that organizations are structured and how information flows within them. In other contexts, representing the notion of a major change in a certain thought-pattern a radical change in personal beliefs, complex systems or organizations, replacing the former way of thinking or organizing with a radically different way of thinking or organizing.Organizations and individuals have problems with paradigm changes because they usually fail to recognize which changes are passing fads, which are more of the same, and which changes actually warrant a paradigm shift in organizational design. The other challenge involved is when an organization or individual should make the change, since any significant change bears risks of its own