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has long been my personal intent to recreate the
Usonian experience [link].
It is just been recently that the evolution of
MG Taylor Corporation and its ValueWeb has been
such that an OGANIZATINAL intent has formed.
On April 25, 2004, we took this intent “Public”
with the creation of a public BLOG [link].
The purpose of the blog is to gather what is a
great amount of now dispirit energy and focus it
to form a ValueWeb [link] that
can marshal the resources necessary to prototype
structures [link] and
work-processes so as to ultimately create a marketplace
[link] for the
design, financing, manufacturing/building, owning
habitats
and the making of communities based on the Usonian
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purpose of any enterprise is to focus the energies
of people of more-or-less like mind and to lever
these energies so that the sum is greater than
individual efforts alone can achieve. Governments,
non-profit,
for profit and NGOs have been formed in a variety
of ways for a variety of purposes to accomplish
this. Great things have been achieved by some
of these organizations
and, at times, great harm, also. Each of these
have inherent strengths and weaknesses. Too often,
they
are dominated by personality, limited by their
structure, distracted by threat or the lure of
wealth and become linear in their processes, short
term
in their thinking, and clogged up in their own
bureaucracy. Bucky Fuller once said that “pollution
was just
a resource out of place.” The ills of organization
are the same: a procedure, or person, or intent
out of place. The reason why DesignShops work so
well is that we do not try and change people; we
rearrange the environment (the 7 Domains [link])
so that they are in the right place for who they
are and
what they want to do. No single existing form of
organization can hold, in a coherent
way,
all
the
variety associated
with the demands made on a modern enterprise. The
ValueWeb architecture is designed to deal with
this requisite variety [link] problem.
ValueWebs create an environment in which many
forms of organization can be matched to the requirements
of many people and their circumstance. This is
done by the PatchWorks architecture and
process
[link].
Strong leadership is healthy in a ValueWeb as long
as
it cannot dominate
resources and decision making as it often does
in a corporation. Conflicting interests can be
dealt
with because they can be localized and put into
a “market”
relationship [link] with
one another. The ValueWeb, itself, can maintain
a principled and long view while organizations
within it can art with a narrower purpose and
function and come and go in an ad-hoc manner without
lose of ENTERPRISE continuity. |
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will take the resources of many individuals and
organizations to bring about a healthy and sustainable
recreation [link] of
the Usonian House and the communities it was intended
to form. It will take GroupGenius
[link] for
this to happen. MG Taylor is in the business of
creating the tools, methods, processes and environments
out of which GroupGenius emerges. The ValueWeb
is the organizational architecture for the GroupGenius
required for projects of great complexity. |
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is the intention of MG Taylor to create the postUsonian
ValueWeb, to act as its Systems Integrator, as
long as this is appropriate, and to evolve the
Enterprise until it is a self-sustaining
marketplace of its
own [link]. |
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the beginning, there will be MG Taylor and MG Taylor-connected
businesses involved, as well as, individuals and
organizations not part of the core MG Taylor system.
The final Enterprise architecture will emerge through
a series of adaptive moves that cannot now be anticipated.
This is the organic process of evolving from an
organization to a network to
a market.
Each step along the way, however, will be governed
by
clear rules-of-engagement
and will involve discrete legal entities. The WHOLE will
be governed so that damage from incremental failure
does not put the Enterprise, itself, at risk. |
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April 21, 2004
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April 21, 2004
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May 10, 2004
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(note:
this document is about 15% finished)
Matt
Taylor 615 525 7053
me@matttaylor.com
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