Generic Organisation

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Generic organisation is the idea of being able to define any organisational system completely in terms of a small set of simple organisational patterns. This is not any different in concept to the process of describing a complex high level computer application completely in terms of simple logic gates. This method of system-reductionism is very useful if applied to high level human organisations and the simple patterns are also in human terms.

This article describes the basics of these patterns in general terms, more a more specific functional overview of these things, see Nodal Organisation which is an implimentation of the generic organisation concepts within the Nodal Reduction environment.

The process of finding these common patterns is to view a complex organisation as a recursive structure, for example we can easily see that the different departments, branche offices or roles could all be seen as separate, self-contained organisations in themselves. The next step is to merge them all together and try and exctract the common conceptual aspects of them all.

These common parts have to be defined with generic terms so that they make sense in as wider range of organisations as possible covering different idustries and scales. There are also other system components necessary to have enough detail to actually impliment an organisation, but these are implimentation specific and are covered in Nodal Organisation for this project.

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