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An organization is a group of people coordinating towards a common purpose.
An organization is a group of people coordinating towards a common purpose.


An organization depends on:
Society is an organization.
Community is an organization.
Family is an organization.


*Communication
People can be a part of many organizations at the same time.
*Coordination
Organizations can be a part of many organizations at the same time.
*Operation


An organization optimizes for:
Organizations involve responsibilities that their members must assume.


*High productive efficiency and versatility
Recruiting more members is a responsibility.
*High educational efficiency and versatility
Making things and providing services is a responsibility.
*Strong intrinsic motivation
Communicating with others in and out of the organization is a responsibility.
*Strong organizational resilience
Safeguarding physical and digital assets is a responsibility.
Dismissing others from responsibility is a responsibility.


Operation involves:
Great organizations bring out the best that their groups can achieve.


*Research
The best productive and educational efficiency and versatility.
*Development
The best intrinsic motivation.
*Production
The best organizational resilience.
*Documentation
 
Communication involves:
 
*Physical Gestures
*Talking
*Texting
*Emailing
*Blogging
*Wiki Content Uploading
 
Coordination involves:
 
*Single Person
*Group Consensus
*Group Majority
*Group Weighed Majority
*Group Minimum Vote Pass
*Other methods not even using votes
 
Individual versatility optimizes an organization; it means, in addition to having deep skills in particular areas, individuals should have at least basic proficiency for a broad set of tasks.
 
Individual versatility allows:
 
*Rapid substitution of functional positions
*Rapid changes of productive concentration
 
Recruiting people involves:
*meeting
*networking
*analysis of existing organizations
*database analysis
 
Financial distribution may involve financial trustees that receive revenues and donations on behalf of a team or organization. The trustees distribute the funds using a system decided upon by the organization's coordination.
 
Dismissal of persons should involve certain standards established by the organization's coordination. If the standards are not met, then the dismissal of the person is pending based on a system decided upon by the organization's coordination.
 
Communication is important for:
 
*Sharing Technical Information
*Scheduling Coordinated Tasks
*Recruiting/Dismissal/Financial Distribution
 
Consider a project for which an organization must manufacture hundreds of parts and assemble them into one final assembly. Let's tackle this organizational problem in 2 parts:
 
*Part creation
*Assembly
 
For part creation, the founder(s) of the organization needs to establish and document some basic parameters (around what size, how many people to operate, energy consumption, etc) and draw a systems engineering diagram (ex. For a spaceship, hull, navigation electronics, propulsion, communication electronics, etc).  The initial work of the founding team (parameters and diagram) are sent to others for peer review. Finally, the founding team assumes responsibility for the hull, and recruits other teams for the other major systems who confirm and read the peer reviews for the initial parameters and diagram.
 
*Founding team- system 1
*A team- system 2
*B team- system 3
*C team- system 4
 
These system teams set further specific parameters based on the existing parameters (ex. If weight and energy consumption is X and Y, then propulsion should be archetype Z). And also new diagrams that get even more specific (ex. Oscillator circuit, bearings). The more specific parameters and diagrams are sent by each team for peer review again. And again, each team takes on a more specific system as necessary and recruits more teams to help out. The new teams read over the parameters, diagrams, and peer review.
 
*Founding team- system 1.1
*A team- system 2.1
*B team- system 3.1
*C team- system 4.1
*D team- system 2.2
*E team- system 2.3
*F team- system 3.1
*G team- system 4.1
*H team- system 4.2
*I team- system 4.3
 
This cycle of specific parameters, diagram, peer review, and recruiting keeps occurring until the all the teams are able to complete their system within the alloted timeframe.
 
Time passes, the progress for each team documented throughout the process, and now we are almost finished with the creation of all the parts. The organization must somehow prepare for all the sub-assemblies and eventually the final assembly of the project.
 
The teams begin their assembly by communicating with other teams involved in their next sub-assembly according to the sys diagram potentially, and schedule time and location assembly events.
So the parts are assembled at the lowest level, then next, next, next, next, and finally the final assembly occurs, with all teams participating and communicating on active comm channels and such.
This organizational method involves these key mechanisms:
*Expansionary Participation
*Per-level Parameter Set-up/Systems Breakdown
*Per-level Peer Review
*Progress Documentation

Revision as of 21:48, 20 April 2012

An organization is a group of people coordinating towards a common purpose.

Society is an organization. Community is an organization. Family is an organization.

People can be a part of many organizations at the same time. Organizations can be a part of many organizations at the same time.

Organizations involve responsibilities that their members must assume.

Recruiting more members is a responsibility. Making things and providing services is a responsibility. Communicating with others in and out of the organization is a responsibility. Safeguarding physical and digital assets is a responsibility. Dismissing others from responsibility is a responsibility.

Great organizations bring out the best that their groups can achieve.

The best productive and educational efficiency and versatility. The best intrinsic motivation. The best organizational resilience.

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