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Design for Complexity

Anticipating time, uncertainty, and emergent behaviors when designing systems, policies, and processes.

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Patterns & Temporal Intelligence

Design for Complexity

Anticipating time, uncertainty, and emergent behaviors when designing systems, policies, and processes.

Practice Area

Designing Temporal Intelligence

Plan for Change Over Time

Creating strategies and structures that anticipate how systems and contexts evolve.

  • Cycles and tempos that keep learning and delivery sustainable over time.

  • Ensuring systems remain coherent and functional as they evolve across multiple timelines.

  • Designing workflows, roadmaps, and dependencies to align with real-world timing.

Practice Area

Dynamic Patterns

Navigate Complex Patterns

Recognizing and leveraging emergent properties in complex systems.

  • The appearance of new patterns or behaviors from interactions within a complex system.

  • Strategic points in a system where a small change yields outsized effects.

Practice Area

Feedback Dynamics

Manage System Feedback

Tuning feedback signals to avoid oscillations, delays, and unintended effects.

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