Applied research and writing grounded in general systems theory, organizational theory, and system dynamics — published where partner organizations permit and open to co-authoring with researchers and practitioners in related fields.
Applied thinking on governance design, organizational decision-making, systems thinking, and the structural conditions that shape how organizations and societies function.
View all articles →Advisory engagements are documented as applied research where partner organizations permit. The work is grounded in general systems theory, organizational theory, and system dynamics — and published with DOI registration on Zenodo for permanent, citable access.
This case study examines the shift from traditional forecasting and budgeting to dynamic capital allocation within a mid-sized holding company. Conducted over the course of a year through an advisory engagement, the intervention sought to reduce internal political behavior and friction at the managerial level.
Grounded in applied systems science and organizational theory — and informed, among others, by the work of Ackoff, Schein, and Stafford Beer — the engagement involved diagnosing systemic constraints, exploring possibilities and their trade-offs, and making informed structural decisions on the implementation of a dynamic capital allocation model requiring a redesign of the organization's decision-making systems and governance structures.
One notable finding: on average, only approximately 2 percent of operational issues known to frontline employees were reaching executive leadership under the original system. Key insights were being filtered, aggregated, deprioritized, or lost as they moved upward through the hierarchy. The issue was not who decided — it was what the system made visible in the first place.
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