Illustrations from the book Organize for Complexity by Niels Pflaeging, available under http://www.amazon.com/Organize-Complexity-Build-High-Performance-Organization/dp/0991537602

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Dynamic part
of value
creation
Solution: man
Formal part
of value
creation
Solution:
machine
1850/1900
Local markets,
high customi-
zation
Spacious markets,
little competition
highhigh
dynamicsdynamicsdynamicsdynamics
sluggish/dull,sluggish/dull,
low dynamiclow dynamicss
highhigh
dynamicsdynamicsdynamics
“Outperformers” exercise
market pressure over con-
ventional companies
Age ofAge of
Crafts Manu-Crafts Manu-Crafts Manu-
facturingfacturing
Industrial Age/
Age of
Tayloristic Industry
Solution: man
Formal part
Solution:
machine
1850/1900 1970/80 today
Age of
Global
Markets
ventional companies

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Client
Market
Center
Periphery
1 Impulse
2 Information 3 Decision
4 Command
5 Reaction
Is in
charge!

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