2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8530-8_14
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Holistic Flexibility

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“…The STM is an action‐research, highly participative methodology, where the consultant acts as a facilitator of organisational learning for self‐assessing organisational effectiveness, which is fully aligned with flexible systemic practice (Chowdhury, 2019). Following an initial immersion in the organisation through surveys and interviews, most of the STM stages (see Figure 2) are conducted through workshops with a sample of participants representing the system in focus for the analysis.…”
Section: The Viability and Sustainability Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The STM is an action‐research, highly participative methodology, where the consultant acts as a facilitator of organisational learning for self‐assessing organisational effectiveness, which is fully aligned with flexible systemic practice (Chowdhury, 2019). Following an initial immersion in the organisation through surveys and interviews, most of the STM stages (see Figure 2) are conducted through workshops with a sample of participants representing the system in focus for the analysis.…”
Section: The Viability and Sustainability Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We analyse together with the participants the main organisational weaknesses or pathologies that need to be addressed to improve organisational effectiveness. These systemic analyses contribute to cognitive flexibility as they help participants and facilitators to develop ‘elastic thinking’, that is, to develop the requisite variety to face the complexities posed by the interaction between their system and its changing environment (Chowdhury, 2019, pp. 413–414).…”
Section: The Viability and Sustainability Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It must be acknowledged that flexibility is a rather polymorphous concept having multiple connotations dependent on the context of use (Bahrami, 1992; Evans, 1991; Sushil, 1997, 2001). From a management tools perspective, Chowdhury's (2019) formulative flexibility is a very appropriate basis from which to detail the flexible nature of roadmapping. Formulative flexibility looks to the form of the method or approach as applied to real‐world applications (Chowdhury, 2019).…”
Section: Systems Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From a management tools perspective, Chowdhury's (2019) formulative flexibility is a very appropriate basis from which to detail the flexible nature of roadmapping. Formulative flexibility looks to the form of the method or approach as applied to real‐world applications (Chowdhury, 2019). As highlighted by Phaal et al (2006), ‘most management tools need to be customized to a greater or lesser extent when applying them within an organization’.…”
Section: Systems Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%