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Evolution in classical thought
Evolutionary thought in the West
Generative philosophy in evolutionary strategy
The evolutionary myth of the natural sciences
A change in thinking about strategic systems
Fifteen Phases of the Strategic System (Top and Bottom)
First, in the evolutionary thinking of traditional culture, strategy is the philosophy of change
Strategy is the philosophy of "change", advancing with the times is to seek innovation and change, how to adhere to the unchanged in the pursuit of innovation and change is a philosophy, especially for what needs to change, which can not change, this boundary is difficult to figure out, change means innovation and innovation, structural reorganization and even tearing down and starting over, which is difficult and painful. Change is always difficult, but no matter how the environment, market, technology, and system in the era of intelligence have become too frequent, so that it has become the norm, but what has changed and how it has changed is not understood, just like what people criticize is often what should not change, what should not change has not changed, and even what should not change will be criticized.
Just like Apple's newly released M1 series products, the chip performance has improved very quickly, but the design has basically not changed and has returned, it will still be self-media to refute the conservative design, and the boundary between change and change lies in the in-depth understanding of the market and users, following the laws of the market, not only the company's own voyeurism, but also not the media's talk. Many people emphasize the determination of the enterprise strategy to adhere to, not until the last resort is certainly unchanged, but what is the unchanged strategic determination, no one can say clearly, in general, the big strategic direction, the big policy guidelines can not be changed, there are also people who reduce the adherence to the strategy to the implementation and operation level, nothing is allowed to change, even if an approval process is not OK, this is definitely wrong.
Why our traditional culture pays great attention to the action of "change" is because change brings about the renewal of vientiane, and changes bring new things and values, so there is such an evolutionary and evolutionary idea as "change is new day by day", without the new day, people and things cannot continue to develop and progress. Change and invariance precisely constitute the driving force for the continuous development and evolution of the system, on the surface it is difficult to seek innovation and change, in fact, it is difficult to adhere to the unchanged, for most enterprises the most difficult thing is to seek change, because the pain of change is from the entire system of the enterprise to every member of the enterprise, it can be seen that this innovation is indeed difficult.
Just like the sixty-four gua in the I Ching is about the sixty-four situations of life, and the development and evolution process of each situation is also divided into very detailed, between the gua and the gua, between the yin and yang is also included in the evolution of the process of change, the I Ching summarizes the law of the development and change of things as the way of yin and yang, that is, the way of one yin and one yang, the I Ching is the book about change and change, the change of day is the basic idea, the way of yin and yang is the mechanism of action, and the change of gua xiang is the process of the movement of yin and yang. That is, the process of yin and yang rigidity and soft pushing.
In the same way, the Tao Te Ching also emphasizes the ideas of change and immutation, such as constant is unchanging, impermanence is change, the opening chapter is the Tao sheng one, life two, two birth three, three life all things, in fact, is the Change Thought of The Tao sheng all things, which also emphasizes the change law of yin and yang as the mutual elimination of growth, the Tao contains the mechanism of change evolution, the Tao is born of all things. Both Taoist thought and Zhou Yi thought emphasize the concept of change and generation, only change is unchanging, behind the change, the ontology of the Tao constantly promotes the generation, evolution and development of all things.
Then there is the evolutionary idea of "and real life, the same is not continued", and the emphasis on different things to reconcile and complement each other, rather than the superposition between the same things, it is precisely because of the harmonious effect between different things, to achieve the purpose of reproduction, sustainable development and continuation, if only the superposition of similar things can not achieve sustainable development, the interaction between differences leads to the development and evolution of things, this difference needs different elements to compose, but also need to continue to innovate and change to achieve.
There is only one way to die without a differentiated organizational system, which requires deep understanding, which is consistent with the connotation of entropy reduction theory. The change here is not only to emphasize the effect of change, but to emphasize the result of change, this result is the new value creation, if the evolution process of innovation and change can not produce new value creation, then this innovation and change is not interesting, just like the dissipation system, if only the open dissipation of information, matter, energy, and can not produce a larger and more efficient new value, then this process of innovation and change, dissipation has no value. For example, the final result of the strategic innovation and organizational innovation of many enterprises is to toss and turn blindly, nothing has been obtained, this is only for the sake of change and change, it seems that change can have gains, this is not right, with the phase of impermanence, the phenomenon of the intelligent era is more extensive, of course, the process of seeking innovation and change itself is also an exploration and experiment, which is another matter.
In the business world, these unchanging laws are actually relatively easy to summarize, and many predecessors have also summarized, such as "Evergreen Foundation", "The Course of Strategy" and other classic books. For example, Hu Qingyutang's "true not two prices" this simple business ideas and business philosophy has been inherited, Mercedes-Benz's "extreme behavior" spirit of enterprise is also a kind of adherence and inheritance, Huawei's spirit of strivers, Lee Kum Kee's Si Li and people concept, etc., these unchanged business ideas, business philosophy are the enterprise to settle down, lasting inheritance of cultural genes, core values, where this case is countless, enterprises must find their own unchanged, the unchanged in these changes is the foundation of the establishment of a century-old foundation.
The system evolution strategy proposed by me itself is to study the internal laws and mechanisms of the evolution and change of the business system strategy, which is used to find the law and drive of change, the unchangeable adherence and initial intention, and the dynamic control logic of the changing and unchanging boundary for the enterprise, which is ultimately the innovation philosophy of change and invariance.
Second, the development of Western evolutionary thought is clear, and the epistemological origin of the systematic evolution strategy can be traced
Evolutionary thought is not only the rheological dominance in Eastern philosophy, but also an important idea in the field of Western philosophy and economics, the essence of this kind of thinking is to seek innovation and change, and constantly seek to create value at a higher level and higher efficiency, which is a process of dynamic development, this dynamic evolution, evolution, evolutionary thought, but also the core ideas in Western philosophical thinking, especially evolutionary theory, complex system theory, Andi innovation theory to bring revolutionary influence to the strategic development of enterprises, but also the core of strategic evolution design in the intelligent era. This article will review the classical evolutionary ideas of Lamarck, Darwin, Veblen, and Cornance, provide a reference for readers to understand the internal logic of systematic evolution strategy, and provide thinking guidance for enterprises' strategic thinking and design in the era of intelligence.
It should be said that after Cornance, along with the development of complex systems science, genetic science, ecological theory, and scientific and technological innovation, subsequent economists have gradually proposed and improved the new economic research paradigm based on biological evolution, phylogenetics, and technological evolution, including institutional economics and evolutionary economics, in order to replace the classical economic thought based on the mechanical equilibrium theory of physics and completely rational people, and its core idea is to study the socio-economic system as a complex system. And integrate the ideas of complex phylogenetic evolution and biological population evolution, and then form an economic theory that is more in line with the law of social and economic operation and objective reality.
This kind of thinking is also applicable in management, because the enterprise system, like the economic system, is itself a complex system, but also has the typical characteristics of biological evolution, the enterprise system is based on the human population of business relations, but also based on the biological meaning of "individual people" and "human consciousness" and the composition of the system, is a thoughtful, organic, open complex system, around the enterprise complex system research strategy, management, finance is also widely prosperous development. In particular, enterprises in the intelligent era are becoming more and more intelligent, open, complex, networked, and systematic, which is more in line with the objective laws of complex system evolution, and more in line with the biological metaphor of population evolution, which is the fundamental reason why I proposed the system evolution strategy to cope with the challenge of continuous evolution and development of enterprise strategy in the intelligent era.
Lamarck uses the idea of waste in and out
Lamarck's theory of Lamarck first put forward the idea of biological evolution, holding that there is an essential difference between living matter and non-living matter; life exists in the interaction between living organisms and environmental conditions; low-level biological types can constantly occur naturally from non-living matter; plants and animals have major differences, but they all have common basic characteristics; life is movement, and movement is manifested in all aspects, both in the flow of liquids in the organism, but also in the absorption of nutrients and the discharge of waste from the organism, and life is continuous , change, development.
It is believed that the driving force of biological evolution is that organisms are born with a tendency to develop upwards, which is the reason for the upward development of organisms; the second is the change of environmental conditions, and the change of environmental conditions can cause biological changes to adapt to the environment, and the size of changes in environmental conditions determines the degree of biological variation; the diversity of environmental conditions is the cause of biodiversity. Organs that are often used will develop and evolve, while organs that are often not used will atrophy and degenerate (that is, they will be used in vain), and these acquired traits can be passed on to future generations. It is believed that both plants and animals evolve in a certain natural order, from simple to complex, from low to high; evolution is tree-like, not only upward, but also to various aspects; human beings are probably developed from higher apes. Lamarck's theory has had a major impact on the scientific community in history, laying the foundation for the development of the theory of biological evolution in the future.
At the heart of Lamarck's theory is "use in and out", believing that the driving force of biological evolution is the tendency of internal evolution and the influence of the external environment. We can understand from two levels, the first aspect is the core competitiveness of the use of waste and retreat, the enterprise itself is a commercial value creation system, this system is an open dissipative structure, through the continuous exchange of information energy materials with the outside world, dissipation and then create commercial value, the enterprise system will continue to rise and fall, fork, emerge until the leap to a higher level of the system paradigm, this is the use of the internal driving force of the system, behind this use of waste and retreat is the continuous innovation and evolution The second aspect is driven by the oppression of environmental impact, in addition to the changes in the macro environment we are talking about, more importantly, the changes in market and customer demand put forward new requirements for enterprise products and services, if you can not continue to optimize the evolution, the competitive advantage of enterprises will be lost.
Darwin's idea of evolution
Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species systematically expounded the theory of human evolution, proposing two core ideas: First, species are variable and living things are evolved. The vast majority of biologists who read On the Origin of Species at the time quickly accepted this fact, and evolution replaced creationism as the cornerstone of biological research. Even at the time, the debate about whether organisms evolved was primarily between biologists and Christian missionaries, not within the biological community. Second, natural selection is the driving force behind biological evolution. Organisms have a tendency to reproduce excessively, and living space and food are limited, and organisms must "fight for survival". There is variation in individuals in the same population, and those with favorable variations that can adapt to the environment will survive and reproduce, and individuals who do not have favorable variations will be eliminated. If the changes in natural conditions are directional, then in the course of history, after a long period of natural selection, small variations are accumulated and become significant variations. This may lead to the formation of subspecies and new species.
The most important of Darwin's evolutionary ideas is the competitive evolutionary idea of "natural selection", which of course also laid the foundation for subsequent biogenetics and comprehensive evolutionary theory. Among them, mutation, isolation, natural selection, population research methods and evolutionary ideas provide biological metaphorical value for the study of subsequent economics, management, systems theory and other theories, and open up the trend of evolutionary philosophy and evolutionary philosophy. The core of the systematic evolution strategy idea proposed by the author is the strategic management system design based on the complex system theory and evolutionary theory, which should be said to be the only strategic design idea and methodology system suitable for the rapid change of the internal and external environment of the enterprise in the intelligent era and the rapid evolution of the internal and external innovation of the enterprise.
The idea of the evolution of the Veblen system
Veblen very much agreed with Darwin's evolutionary theory of evolution, proposing that darwin's evolutionary ideas could be borrowed in the study of sociology, economics, and social systems, and that the socio-economic system also evolved and developed in certain laws and forms. Veblen introduced the Darwinian idea of evolutionary evolution into economic research, put forward the research ideas and theoretical basis of institutional evolutionary economics and evolutionary economics, and tried to replace the research and influence of the mechanical thinking of physics on economics with biological evolutionary ideas, which is also the earliest attempt to talk about evolution and evolutionary biological metaphors in the field of economics. And put forward the social inertia and conservatism composed of systems, habits, ideas, and customs, which hinder the evolution and development of social systems and economies, and the process of evolution and development is inseparable from the influence of social inertia and conservatism. This paper proposes to study the evolution of economic systems according to the analytical model of "instincts, habits, customs, and institutions".
Veblen finally proposed the application of biological evolution ideas to the process of social system change and economic research, laid the research foundation for institutional evolution economics, opened up the extensive application of biological open organic systems in the field of sociology, and the concepts and designs we currently mention ecological strategy, ecosystem strategy, and organic strategy are also the inheritance and development of Veblen's institutional evolutionary economics thought. If the enterprise strategy system in the information age is still non-organic, mechanical, closed grouping and combination, then the intelligent age of enterprise strategy system is absolutely open, organic, dissipative multi-level complex system, intelligent era data intelligence and network collaboration make the economy and business and crowds and individuals closely connected, in the network effect, data intelligence, hardware technology revolution under the retreat, the business system is more and more towards the direction of biology, organic, intelligent development.
Commens's collective action and the idea of human consciousness
Cornish expounded his "theory of collective action" in depth. He took "collective action" as the object of his research, whether in organized groups or in unorganized customs, "collective action" is common, and the customs and institutional operating rules on which "collective action" operate are also constantly evolving and evolving. The "change" he was concerned with was not an "unintentional" change, but a "conscious, purposeful change", and he emphasized purposeful control and artificial choice, which Commens considered to be an "artificial elimination". In Cornsons's view, human consciousness has a great role in promoting economic development, and the purposefulness of human consciousness has led to institutional changes and promoted the evolution and development of social economy.
Cornish emphasized the two key concepts of collective action and human consciousness, collective action is the stepping stone to the study of sociology, individual consciousness is not only a component of collective action, individual consciousness is also attributed to collective action, he emphasized the important role of human consciousness and human will in social development, and the purposefulness of human consciousness plays a major role in the process of institutional and economic evolution, that is, to pay attention to human subjective initiative, to pay attention to the subjective initiative of human collectives, and to pay attention to the subjective initiative of clusters. This is also the essence of our system strategy design driven, on the one hand, the overall evolution and development of the enterprise system should go with the trend, fully consider the objective environment and conditions of the constraints and requirements, on the other hand, the evolution strategy of enterprise system design is to create a new strategic environment, development mode and development path, open a new strategic situation, and realize the evolution and transition of the enterprise system as a whole, which is the embodiment of subjective initiative, and it is also the logical support for the overall design to grasp the evolution of the enterprise system.
Third, the generative philosophy in evolutionary strategy, the dynamic transition logic of the intelligent era system
Some people say that the high-tech new small and medium-sized enterprises or unicorn enterprises in the intelligent era are the backbone of business, and all other large-scale enterprise forms may be dismembered, and for small and medium-sized enterprises, there is no need for the so-called strategy, or a medium- and long-term cycle of business layout, because the rapidly changing internal and external environment of the intelligent era does not require a rigid medium- and long-term strategic planning. Then small and medium-sized enterprises only need to have a clear business model, channel strategy is enough, and even channels will be broken by the network form of the community, and finally become the lead of creativity and design. What's more, it is believed that the strategy of small and medium-sized enterprises is actually only two levels, the first is the business model, that is, the fastest, most efficient and simplified business closed loop, and the second is the business portfolio, that is, to find a way that products and services can be combined and packaged, and to invest in the market in the form of categories, chains, and integrations, and the strategy will no longer become how grand, how systematic, and how long-term cloud and cloud.
Such a strategic view in this era of great changes in the intelligent era, is indeed a lot of strategic confusion, crisis shrouded and overcorrected people hold and doubt, in fact, the market that changes too fast puts forward three key core needs for strategy, and the key to strategic design is to solve these core needs. The first is how to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, the second is how to keep up with the innovation-changing market, and the third is how to maintain the advantage of lasting competition. This is also the core demand for strategy put forward by the intelligent era, rapid change, innovative frequency change, and lasting advantages, which are the three major problems that must be solved by strategic design in the intelligent era, which implies the difference between strategy and strategy, the difference between combination and creation, and the difference between growth and evolution.
Strategy is not a static plan or ingenuity, but a design arrangement for the continuous evolution of the enterprise system and the dynamic law of the transition, and the strategy is a certain time play and strategy, with the purpose of solving temporary problems. Creation is a dynamic continuous value creation, the combination is a deliberate arrangement of product and service collocation structure, which also implies the difference between a static and a moving, a long and a short; growth is the continuous expansion of the business, evolution is the rebirth of the system as a whole, and there are also essential differences in time series, layout level and cycle length.
In order to essentially explain this difference from the root, it is necessary to make it clear from the philosophical logic of evolutionary strategy, just as the previous article was explained from the perspective of system evolution, this article will think from the perspective of the generative philosophy of evolutionary strategy, leaving aside the background of system theory and evolution theory, this generative theory is the essential logic of the evolutionary transition of enterprise systems.
In the field of economics, generative theory is often defined by the concept of "novel creation", in fact, it is essentially the meaning of innovation plus value creation, we can understand that a higher level of value creation is achieved through innovation, not just the concept of innovation, the only attribute of the existence of enterprises is to create value. Therefore, innovation is to create value at a higher level and more efficient, which is also the essence of technological innovation. Generative theory is essentially the theory of achieving higher levels and more efficient value creation through innovation, which is a definition I gave, and generation is to achieve faster and better value creation through innovation.
Instead of generating a product or mechanism on the end, but a dynamic and fruitful innovative value creation process, innovation is the change is the paradigm progress, value creation is the demand and result of innovation, in this process the core competitiveness of the enterprise, the market scale has a breakthrough, the enterprise itself This system has also jumped to a higher level of value creation, which is the essential logic of the evolution strategy.
So in order to clarify the concept of this generation theory, I will interpret it from six aspects: evolutionary view, creation view, future view, time and space view, innovation view, and retrospective view, and evolutionary strategy is the philosophy of generative theory, not a combination strategy, and it is not a commercial design at a certain point in time.
Evolutionary view: itself derived from the evolutionary thought in Darwinism, and later was continuously applied metaphorically, deriving the concept of dynamic development such as evolution and evolution, which refers to the process of continuous change and transition of the system in the category of system theory, which is a kind of continuous change and new rhyme, which can be understood as a continuous dynamic generative theory of thought.
Creation concept: This is a functional description of the system strategy, revealing the essential appeal of enterprise system value creation, continuous value creation is not only the basis for the survival of the enterprise system, but also the core consideration of strategic design, this consideration is for the enterprise system to create a higher level of more efficient value, rather than the recombination or grouping transformation of system elements, the concept of creation is the main driving force guiding the enterprise system to leapfrog upgrade and dynamic evolution, and it is also the core idea of generative theory.
Futuristic view: instead of adapting to the rapidly changing internal and external environment proposed by the environmental school, or pandering to and adapting to the future scenarios of business development, generative theory emphasizes actively influencing and guiding the future, and even creating a commercial future, emphasizing the process design of the overall system evolution transition, which is a creative logic rather than reasoning logic.
Space-time view: Instead of laying out the space-time strategy, making a fragmented spatial layout or doing a time layout, but integrating time and space into the system strategy design, as a component element of strategic design, designing a dynamic organic evolutionary context of space-time construction for the evolution of the system, designing the past and the future into this context and rules, and letting the system evolve and transition along the space-time context in accordance with the strategic rules.
Technology concept: technological innovation as the most primitive force of the system evolution transition, is the need to do in-depth and meticulous research, is the need to put under the microscope insight, especially the law and trend of technological evolution and development, this dynamic law must be grasped, which hides the logic from equilibrium to unbalanced evolution, the past strategic design of the insight of technology is far from enough.
Retrospective view: retrospective is not to trace the past conventions, systems, habits, but to use the ideas and laws of strategic design to externalize and express them by analogy and metaphor, in order to be more accurate in practical application, while metaphors and analogies in turn will promote the innovation and formation of strategic design ideas, which reflects the source, basis and advantages of generation, and finds a unique personalized evolutionary strategic design idea that belongs only to the target enterprise.
Fourth, the evolutionary myth of natural science, the wisdom of evolutionary strategy
Science is the interpretation and transcription of a small part of the natural laws of the universe, behind the endless laws is the infinity and vastness of the Tao body, we can only myth and guess, to find a smaller part of the law can be transformed into well-being, for the systematic evolution strategy to trace the source of science.
Natural evolution myth 1: Quantum entanglement reveals particles that exceed the speed of light, that is, instantaneous particles, which can break through the shackles of space-time, can be space-time to produce a teleportation effect, behind the role of this transcendent space-time, may be dark matter, may be virtual matter, in short, we can not see and observe, this may be people guessing the truth behind the five-dimensional space or even higher dimensional space, this kind of resonance beyond emotion and spirit, the so-called entanglement is indeed unpredictable, and indeed everything is indeed indecisive to think about entanglement, Entanglement is an inexplicable relationship, the link behind the relationship, so behind the constant success of the Internet economy is a big issue of quantum technology.
Natural Evolution Myth 2: Behind the law of immortality of matter also includes the immortality of the spirit, perhaps behind the disappearance of the three-dimensional space matter seen, there is the eternal existence of the spirit of the higher dimensional space, just like dark matter, we can not see or even observe, but there are countless dark matter through our bodies all the time, if so deduced, then there is a possible correlation between the existing and disappearing things, whether there is a certain correlation between the subconscious and the explicit consciousness, science is only a small part of the cosmic algorithm and law, we do not know too much Knowing too little, so be in awe, and that reverence must be objective awe, not the awe you think.
Natural evolution myth 3: many people ask me about the macroeconomic trend, there are also many people ask me about the development of micro enterprises, I can be sure that macro problems can be grasped, even if you do not know enough to grasp can also follow others, can more accurately follow the grasp of the general trend of people, rather than Internet celebrities, micro enterprise development problems to find experienced people with deep skills can also grasp a part, but the macro certainty is more, the micro uncertainty is more, So don't do business with a hot head don't allin, don't think that you can grasp the macroscopic trend can grasp the micro certainty, you look at the physical material properties of the universe to know, most of the microscopic particles are uncertain, wave-particle duality, Schrödinger's cat, and most of the microscopic particles are also empty, how big are the electrons and nuclei in the atoms, most of them are empty, difficult to figure out, the basic laws of the macroscopic can be made, the microscopic really can't be said, But it is already good to grasp the general direction of the business under the macro framework, and then it is to control the micro operational risk, which is what the strategic level of the enterprise should do.
Natural Evolution Myth 4: On the question of "Schrödinger's cat", Wheeler put forward his own view that "everything comes from bits (referring to information)", just as we discussed information driving evolution, Wheeler himself admitted that this is an unorthodox conjecture theory, starting from the assumption that information is the root of all material existence. Wheeler claimed that when we look at the sun, the moon, a galaxy, or an atom, their essence is the information stored in them, and when the universe is observed, the information is revealed, and the universe jumps out. This means that the universe is also adapting to us in the way we adapt to it, and it is our presence that makes the universe meaningful. This seems to have evolved into a philosophical discussion, because the physics community has not had a general consensus on the measurement problem in quantum theory, many physicists have a wait-and-see attitude towards Wheeler's theory that "information is the root of the universe", but the reality is that information technology is promoting the continuous evolution and upgrading of science and technology, business and society, which is objective, the trend of continuous evolution and upgrading of information technology is almost irreversible, information is almost the law and logic behind science and technology, and we must grasp this law and logic.
Natural evolution myth 5: matter and spirit is hardware and software, almost everything in nature can be so divided and understood, if the spirit is replaced by more general information, then the applicability will be more extensive, for organisms organisms are hardware, genes are information, thoughts and spirits are also information, information is classified as software, for our intelligent technology, the same is true, hardware and software are equally important, and hardware and software will penetrate and integrate together, this is the law and trend, This law and trend is used at the level of corporate strategy evolution, and many things will be clearly understood, and I will not expand here.
Natural evolution myth 6: technology is the driving force of evolution, biological genetic evolution relies on computing, algorithms are the evolution of survival that adapts to changes in the environment, the evolution of galaxies, stars, black holes, and supernovae in the universe is also technology, and the evolution of intelligent application systems relies on computing, this dynamic computational evolution process is the process of evolution and optimization of technical systems that we understand, what is the core appeal of computing, is to adapt, to balance, to evolve, to dynamically dissipate the structure.
Natural evolution myth 7: all things are born of existence, there is born of nothing, this nothing is absolutely nothing, not the so-called void, from a scientific point of view, thinking may be the world dominated by dark matter, or the world dominated by virtual particles, or completely attributed to the world that we can't see and observe, this world is definitely objectively existing, and even the dominant main, such as gravitational field, electromagnetic field, virtual information field, and even emotional emotion field, we are not observable, but objectively existent, These invisible fields may be the fundamental cause that determines the order of our physical particles and visible time, and is not the so-called science also part of the interpretation and transcription of the natural laws of the universe, and it is such a tiny part that it can be seen that there is a greater nothingness in the wider world, and this nothingness exists objectively and is the reason behind the decision to dominate our world of existence.
The real so-called enterprise leading the era, must be able to break the intelligent era of technology systems and business system evolution of the inherent laws and trends, this kind of breakthrough must be mastered by the wisdom of the evolution of the times, this wisdom must be well versed in the universe, the wisdom of natural evolution, this wisdom is not only necessarily out of control, but a higher dimension of the law of the law, the general enterprise at least to follow, even if not understand, but also to follow, they represent the future.
Fifth, the thinking innovation of the strategic system, the strategic design in the intelligent era will inevitably move towards complexity, systematization and ecology
Strategic management in the intelligent era has completely evolved into system management under complex science, this strategic management is not only to solve the relationship and operation of internal subsystems and individual elements, but also to solve the integration and symbiosis of strategic systems and external environments, which the innovation brought by intelligent technology will act simultaneously from the inside and outside of the enterprise system to adapt to the growth and evolution of the new intelligent ecology, for the internal is not only a problem of collaborative self-organization, for the outside is not just a problem of linking and integrating into a larger ecology.
Internally, intelligent technology first solves the problems of collaboration, efficiency, precision and cost, which is the digital transformation that we now mention the most, that is, intelligent transformation, with less cost to obtain more information, energy and resources, to achieve intelligent, digital entropy reduction, this process is depicted as the self-organization effect of internal intelligence. The goal of intelligent upgrading of enterprises is to be able to integrate resources more efficiently, manage operations more efficiently, collaborate more efficiently, and create value more efficiently, and this intelligent upgrade also includes the reshaping of the business boundaries, information processing capabilities, cognitive insight capabilities, intelligent decision-making capabilities, system operation capabilities, and advanced innovation and application capabilities of enterprises.
For the outside, intelligent technology should not only solve the problem of exchanging information, capabilities, materials and elements between enterprises and the external ecological environment, but also solve the problem of establishing relationship links with the outside world, and then carry out a wider range of collaborative collaboration, cross-border innovation, and value symbiosis, in this larger ecosystem, how to find their role and node positioning as subsystems, how to establish their own influence, network, alliance, and self-organization with other external subsystems and broader individuals. It is difficult to lead the evolution and upgrading of the entire ecosystem until it establishes its own ecological strategy system. Moreover, the ecological strategy in the intelligent era is no longer unattainable and untouchable, and the establishment of ecology will become the path and task that every enterprise must take, no matter at which level or level of the ecosystem, or which larger system it belongs to.
Based on the evolution law of the complex system of enterprises in the intelligent era, from the internal self-organization and collaboration of the enterprise strategic system and the external ecological evolution, the laws that must be observed in the design and construction of the strategic system of the intelligent era are proposed, including eight dimensions of ecology, openness, collaboration, innovation, self-organization, driving force, organizational IQ, and imbalance strategy.
First, build a higher-level ecosystem, with the help of a broader ecosystem to open up the enterprise's higher-level strategic time, space, dimension, ecology, vision, break through the shackles and inefficient interaction of the same-layer isomorphic system, first of all, to establish a self-organization system with the self as the core node, while strengthening the exchange and interaction between the enterprise and the larger ecosystem, building more negative entropy factor associations, providing enterprises with higher latitude survival potential energy and pull, and then gradually building and enlarging the self-ecosystem to establish a wider range of ecological environment elements. Network structure layout, distributed subsystems, and other elements.
Second, build a higher degree of open system, build a more open enterprise system from multiple elements, multiple dimensions and multiple levels, let enterprises open up external cooperation space from the strategic dimension, establish an interactive cooperation mechanism from the dimensions of business, resources, capabilities, innovation, etc., and continuously input materials, resources, information, capabilities, energy and other survival elements into the enterprise system.
Third, reduce chaos and complexity, clearly demonstrate and sort out, build the development mission, development strategy, development goals, and development path of the enterprise, clarify the overall development requirements of the enterprise system, find the guidance of multi-element collaborative construction of the dissipative structure of the enterprise, under the guidance of objective laws, rely on internal and external driving forces, strengthen the guidance and configuration of the core elements and elements of the system, and improve the visibility, controllability and purpose of the system.
Fourth, build an innovation mechanism based on strategic evolution, find the evolution trend and law of the enterprise system in the dimension of survival and development, design a development strategy system based on future trends and objective laws, take the development strategy system as the criterion, continuously innovate the key dimensions of enterprise industry, capital, business, marketing, digitalization, brand, etc., rely on the internal and external development potential, development drive, development value, and development vitality brought about by innovation, and further promote the development and evolution of the enterprise system.
Fifth, optimize the collaborative structure of the internal business subsystem of the enterprise system, strengthen the collaborative combination order of elements and subsystems, enhance the internal development drive and potential energy of the enterprise system, inject entropy reduction factors, realize the high activity, high potential energy and high drive of the internal operation order of the organization, design the collaborative structure, combination structure, joint structure and link structure of the subsystem within the system, and then carry out more efficient link interaction with the external environment, relying on collaborative combination design to enhance the ability and strength of organizational value creation.
Sixth, enhance the internal and external innovation driving force of the system, promote the system to continuously adapt to the external environment and market changes, actively design and promote the emergence of internal innovation mechanism system, help enterprises to establish an organizational culture, environment and mechanism for continuous innovation and innovation, give play to the self-organization characteristics of enterprise systems, let enterprises frequently carry out multi-level and multi-dimensional innovation experiments, and give birth to subsystems representing the future innovation power of enterprises.
Seventh, improve the wisdom of the organization's key influence nodes, establish an organizational wisdom mechanism based on collective decision-making wisdom, gain insight into external development opportunities, development logic, and development laws from the essence, build an internal intelligent decision-making and management mechanism from the system level, exchange energy with the external environment more efficiently, allocate internal and external resources more efficiently, address organizational chaos and disorder more efficiently, and complete organizational development goals more efficiently.
Eighth, constantly break the internal development equilibrium of the enterprise system, especially to eliminate the internal conservative protection force, establish a non-equilibrium development state based on open interaction, vitality and prosperity, so that the enterprise is in a high-vitality state of continuous growth, resist the chaos and disorder and equilibrium within the system, promote the continuous evolution of the system to the next non-equilibrium state, and realize the construction of a long-term sustainable and efficient value creation system.
Sixth, the fifteen phases of the strategic system are not phases, and the insight into the strategic design is like (Part 1)
The fifteen phases of the strategic system are not phases, the insight of the strategic design is true, borrowing the Buddhist sayings to illustrate the essential connotation of the strategic system design, the first is to make the enterprise sustainable in the most efficient value creation of the peak state, through the shackles of the cyclical environment, the second is to let the enterprise sustainable in the continuous ecological evolution of the growth and transcendence state, through the shackles of time and space law.
The previous part includes: Systems, Chaos, Entropy Increase, Dissipation, Space-Time, Value, And Openness.
System: Omnipresent, omnipotent
The system is ubiquitous, the system is science, is cognition, is literacy, if you can not think about the problem from the level of the system, can not understand the essence from the level of the system, can not design the rules from the level of the system, but also from the level of the system to insight into the law, the system is beyond the system, the system is the closed loop of theory and practice, the system is an ecology including elements, individuals, the environment, the strategic system must first have an overall view, how to find the positioning in the larger ecology, how to integrate into the larger ecology, How to influence and lead the greater ecology, and even how to innovate and reshape the larger ecology, emphasize the internal change and drive of the system internally, and let the system form an efficient interaction internally and externally.
Chaos: Disordered nonlinear, uncertain and unpredictable
The internal structure of the strategic system is non-linear, disorderly, and deterministic unpredictable, the overall strategy of the single company can not only be designed and predicted, and can be linearly grasped on performance, but the overall strategy of the group company or the company above the medium is unpredictable, it is more non-linear, and the result of a strategic initiative is also multidimensional, not monistic or dualistic, it is a chaotic unpredictable situation, in this case, the first goal of the design of the strategic system is not innovation and innovation. Instead, it is necessary to reduce the chaotic effect, gradually see the relationship between the overall strategy and the external environment, find the direction and path, reduce the uncertainty of the overall strategy in a larger environment, and then find the strategy of strategic innovation from within the system, from the external general trend chaos to the internal innovation chaos design ideas.
Entropy increase: orderly guidance brought about by disorderly trends
Not only the entropy of the closed system, the open system is also entropy, the enterprise is most afraid of no drive and vitality to become a dead silence under internal consumption, why design the strategy? Can not only seize the opportunity, can not just find the profit zone, the strategic system of reshaping and entropy reduction, in order to give the system a chance to change the face, so that the system to regain the vitality of development, the system without development will entropy increase faster and dead faster, entropy increase gives us the greatest value, not to resist as much as possible to resist entropy increase, but to tell us the underlying law of strategic system design, that is, the principle of reverse entropy increase design, entropy reduction design principle, new strategic new innovation to take into account the entropy reduction vision and long-term, It points out the law and direction of strategic system design, which is the power of the law of entropy increase.
Dissipation: Not dissipation, but to create value
The enterprise system is a dissipative structure, but not just a dissipative structure, not only through the exchange of information, energy, and materials with the outside to achieve internal non-equilibrium and orderliness, more importantly, the enterprise system is a value creation system, if there is no value creation, this openness and exchange has no value, the so-called dissipation is really just a dissipation, is a waste. The design of the strategic system is to ensure continuous more efficient value creation, that is, to improve the energy efficiency of dissipation, dissipation of a small part can produce a large part of the value, this is energy efficiency, of course, there are also our organizational performance, human effectiveness, production efficiency, etc., is to measure the economics of value creation, why should we innovate to the high-tech field of new industrial innovation, innovation to the direction of intelligent manufacturing, is to move forward in the direction of higher energy efficiency and value creation efficiency, this is the true meaning of dissipative structure theory, many people only understand dissipation , which is useless.
Time and space, breaking the cycle law will always maintain the vitality of growth
Traditionally, the understanding of strategic time and space, space is the regional layout, that is, to find regional market regional development opportunities, to establish the carrier of industrial development from the space, to find the opportunities for the industry at the spatial development and market level, of course, more importantly, it is the resonance integration of regional development policies and opportunities, time is the industrial strategy, the timing of industrial entry, the opportunity of industrial development, the law of industrial development, and the layout direction of industrial strategy. The understanding of this traditional spatio-temporal strategy is only to stay at the layout level, the original intention of the spatio-temporal strategy is to reconstruct the internal and external system structure of the enterprise, restore the individual and element organizational forms and structures within the innovation enterprise system, and restore the value creation mechanism of the enterprise to the level of the highest internal drive, the highest vitality and the highest efficiency, this state can continue to occur and can continue to create value, which is great, that is, to keep the enterprise in the most dynamic prime-age era for a long time, which is the meaning of eternal youth. External is also to provide various conditions and environmental support for the continuous occurrence of this peak of highest value creation, which is great, so if we want to understand the essence of the spatio-temporal strategy, we must understand it in combination with the true meaning of the strategic system.
Value: The origin of business, the essence of operation
If there is no value creation, all business operations, strategic design are dead, are no purpose and utility, why the measurement of capital value is the core of cash flow, because cash flow is the most direct and objective embodiment of the continuous value creation of enterprises, capital value comes from market value, cash flow is also the most essential embodiment of the internal business principles of the enterprise, continuous value creation is the origin of all this, so our sustainability, not sustainable survival, but sustainable value creation, This is the ultimate purpose of all our strategic system design and management design, and also the ultimate goal of the evergreen foundation, this continuous value creation must be a continuous new and low low continuous transformation and upgrading, continuous innovation and continuous efficient development.
Open: The source of survival and leadership
Without development, there is no way to live, not to exchange information, capabilities, materials, openness is the foundation of the existence of the system is also the form, without the open system can not obtain all the elements and conditions needed for the survival of existence, without a continuous open system can not achieve the continuous creation of value, not to mention will not produce any sustainable development of the drive and ability, the system will soon lose vitality, lose the vitality of the organization, lose the vitality of humanity, lose the vitality of the market, lose the vitality of creation, no vitality is dead, Openness is not only the development of the material level, but also the openness of ideological thinking, ideological thinking is the root of all vitality, any change and innovation is derived from openness, openness is the source of thought, is the source of material, openness is the source of all the enterprise strategic system design.
VII. The Fifteen Phases of the Strategic System Are Not Phases, and the Insight into strategic Design is Like True (Part II)
The fifteen phases of the strategic system are not phases, the insight of the strategic design is true, borrowing the Buddhist sayings to illustrate the essential connotation of the strategic system design, the first is to make the enterprise sustainable in the most efficient value creation of the peak state, through the shackles of the cyclical environment, the second is to let the enterprise sustainable in the continuous ecological evolution of the growth and transcendence state, through the shackles of time and space law. Through continuous evolution and upgrading, and through the establishment of an ecosystem that operates under the leadership of self-rules, this system is a more open, networked, distributed, community-based, complex, and intelligent business ecosystem.
The next part of this article includes: change, design, structure, order, self-organization, emergence, imbalance, evolution.
Change: What you see is mutation, and the backpack is quantitative to qualitative
In the general sense, the change must be to adapt to the changes in the external environment, or to seize the development opportunities brought about by the changes in the external environment more quickly, and then force internal innovation, so that the concept of innovation cannot catch up with the rhythm of the intelligent era; change must be an internal driving ability, even conditioned reflex, must have advanced prediction ability and insight vision, is sensitive, keenly perceive the internal and external revelations and quantitative changes, relying on business research, business insight, strategic talent, organizational wisdom to do the layout in advance , even this layout is subconscious penetration rather than deliberate, just in the environment and the market triggered a moment, the market sees mutations and qualitative changes, which is similar to cancer, in fact, not all at once, but the system is constantly changing and accumulating, but the form of presentation is mutation and qualitative change, just like the Amazon cloud layout strategy, in the quantitative change to complete the qualitative change, to present people with mutations.
Design: The heart is full of laws, and strategy is a method of human design
Strategic planning is not a planning plan, not how grand and lofty things, even the concept of strategic planning itself is not right, planning is the layout of space and time, it should be called strategic design, which emphasizes the concept of a design, the design has nothing to do, intentional, innovative and creative, deliberately preset the meaning, the design contains three levels, the first is the system level of environmental creation, rule design, guidance pre-embedding, this is the system of internal and external environment, rules, The second level is the pattern design, structural design, and path design at the paradigm level, which is the design of the internal and external business operations, collaborative cooperation, development and evolution of the system, human design and innovation, which determines the entire operation mode of the system; the third level is the strategy, organization, and innovative design at the structural level, which is the artificial design and innovation of the internal self-organization, adaptive, collaborative collaboration, and marginal innovation of the system, and is the design of the internal co-evolution of the control system.
Structure: Determines the composition of the system and determines the elements of the strategy
Structure is the collocation and arrangement of the constituent departments within the system, that is, the composition method, using reduction theory to find the original elements of the composition of the enterprise system, and using the system theory to build a new composition of the enterprise system, the design of the strategic system itself is also a top-down, bottom-up innovation of the structure. The structure required by the focused professional strategy is the continuous evolution and evolution of the industry and the focus on the business, and the structure here is the structure of business-level innovation, which is the structure of continuously building and strengthening the core competitiveness; the industrial chain strategy needs to upgrade and optimize the structure, and even control the reshaping, the structural upgrade from the low-value link to the high-value link, the transformation from the strategic position of the subordinate adaptation to the position of the influence control, the evolution of the profit zone, and the optimization of the profit structure. The complex system strategy is the reconstruction of internal subsystems and factor structures, which is the structural reshaping of multiple dimensions such as industry and capital, connotation and extension, light assets and heavy assets, long cycle and short cycle, synergy and combination, cash flow and assets, and is the structural design of a system.
Order: Order produces potential energy difference, which is the source of internal driving force
The first meaning of order, order is to arrange parts to achieve the orderly operation of the system, arrangement is the action of order is not the essence of order, order is the source of potential energy and driving force, order comes from the power, goal and trust of the commercial system, the source of personal order comes from survival, the origin of organizational order comes from coordination, coordination is also to achieve the commercial purpose of the organization, and the goal is the basis for the establishment of all order. Therefore, order is a series of system arrangements around the strategic goal, in order for the system to have an orderly and more efficient operation; the second layer of order means potential energy difference, because different subsystems within the system, different individuals' vitality, energy, ability, efficiency, value creation status is different, there will be different driving forces, different operating effects, this contrast will create a potential energy difference for the system, this potential energy difference can be artificially designed to activate the internal vitality of the enterprise, This vitality itself is the most important internal driving force for corporate evolution.
Self-organization: Self-organization is the internal driving force of order and evolution
Self-organization is generated in an open dissipative system far from equilibrium, self-organization is a functional structure formed by subsystems, individuals, and elements in the system according to certain rules, self-organization is the internal operation mechanism of the system, ensuring the continuity of the system dissipation structure, providing the system with the energy, material, and information required for the existence of the system, self-organization is also the internal driving force of the system evolution, ensuring the internal structure of the system from disorder to orderly operation, providing internal driving force for system evolution. Then self-organization within the enterprise system is not only internal collaboration and collaboration, but also includes multiple levels such as internal recombination, edge innovation, internal creation, and innovation of mechanism constitution. Especially in the era of intelligence, complex networked organizations, ecological networked organizations have become the ultimate goal of enterprise development, the most important of which is the self-organization drive within the system, this self-organization phenomenon can not only complete the innovation task on the node, but also spontaneously produce more innovation mechanisms and elements, these mechanisms and elements can even affect the reshaping of the structure and ecology of the entire system (such as WeChat, Vibrato, Amazon Cloud, Alpha Dog).
Emergence: Simple combinations of simple individuals emerge complex systems
Emergence is the unpredictable complex pattern created by the simple interaction behavior preset between individuals in the system, which gives several points, the individual is simple in function, or even single, the preset interaction and behavior rules are also simple, even single, but when a large number of simple individuals' simple behavior forms a huge system cabinet, infinite complex phenomena will emerge, and even a new system and evolution will occur, such as ant communities, bee communities, neural networks, immune systems, Internet economy, Big data algorithms, artificial intelligence, and more. For example, Taobao is to aggregate simple outlets into the Taobao platform according to simple rules, and then continuously derive endless service project rules, and the platform develops into a huge living ecosystem, deriving inexhaustible business opportunities, models and values, which is the power of emergence. In the design of strategic systems in the intelligent era, we must pay attention to the internal presets of the system that truly follow the laws, rules, mechanisms, and physiques of future business forms, so that the system can continue to emerge more new content and value in accordance with the self-organizing form of complex ecology.
Unbalance: Imbalance is to create potential energy difference
Imbalance is to create a potential energy difference, once the equilibrium will lose the potential energy to lose order and lose vitality, the rest is dead silence, the organization is most afraid of equilibrium, egalitarian lazy dead people is this truth, the core of organizational management is incentive, simple material incentive brings a sense of equilibrium, no one can get it, this is also an equilibrium of ineffective incentives, motivation must be to motivate self-progress, motivation must be to motivate the organization to advance together, organizational strategy and personal strategy resonance, It will stimulate greater energy of the organization, because everyone sees the opportunity, value, and distinction, and this imbalance will stimulate infinite vitality on the potential energy difference within the organization and individuals, which is the internal driving force for the development and evolution of the organization, in this regard, Huawei's strivers do the best for the culture, and the internal incentives are also worth learning.
Evolution: The essential attribute of strategic design
All the strategic design is for evolution, evolution is to make the enterprise system better and more sustainable survival and development, we understand that evolution should be considered from four levels, the first is the adaptation and evolution of enterprises and the market, enterprises in the market survival and development, must have market competitiveness market influence, must evolve the ability of technology, products, services to meet market demand and trends; the second is the interactive evolution of enterprises and the environment, the scope of the environment is a general term for social resources, Enterprises more efficient and higher quality adaptation into the external environment, from the environment to obtain information, energy, materials, output more effective value for the environment, internal and external formation of an efficient and high-quality high-quality high interaction of the competitive advantage; the third is a higher dimension of value creation paradigm, the design of a stronger and better strategic system, so that enterprises grasp the most valuable potential business opportunities in the internal and external environment, so that enterprises with the most efficient and advanced value creation model to operate, so that enterprises to establish a self-core node value creation network The fourth is to build a more powerful ecological evolution system, from self-evolution to joint external systems for collaborative evolution, leading the evolution mode and path of larger ecosystems, and even establishing an ecosystem that operates according to self-rules, more open, more networked, and more distributed, but the underlying operating rules are consistent.