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Adaptive Design Principles

Designing an adaptive enterprise or business requires fundamental design principles. This post discusses the six broad six categories of adaptive design principles (agility, design thinking, model thinking, resiliency, service thinking and systems thinking) as outlined in the adaptive design principles catalog from  The Gill Framework® . These principles can be tailored and applied in a particular context. For instance, these principles can guide the design of the adaptive enterprise capabilities, teams, processes, services, systems etc. Agility ·          Flexibility: built-in flexible response to changes ·          Leanness: built-in quality with optimal or minimal resources ·          Learning: built-in analytics-information for continuous learning ·          Responsiveness: design for (response) change ·          Speed: quick timely response to changes and outcomes (e.g. faster time to market) Design thinking ·          Action-oriented: practical, actionable an