Abstract
In a changing digital world, organisations need to be effective information processing entities, in which people, processes, and technology together gather, process, and deliver the information that the organisation needs. However, like other information processing entities, organisations are subject to the limitations of information evolution. These limitations are caused by the combinatorial challenges associated with information processing, and by the trade-offs and shortcuts driven by selection pressures. This paper applies the principles of information evolution to organisations and uses them to derive principles about organisation design and organisation change. This analysis shows that information evolution can illuminate some of the seemingly intractable difficulties of organisations, including the effects of organisational silos and the difficulty of organisational change. The derived principles align with and connect different strands of current organisational thinking. In addition, they provide a framework for creating analytical tools to create more detailed organisational insights.
Highlights
As the world becomes more digital, the success of all types of organisation depends more and more on how good they are at processing information
This paper considers that question and links information evolution [6,7,8,9,10] to principles about organisation design and organisation change
Information evolution is based on a model of information that is sufficiently general to support discussions about the nature of information [6,7], different measures of information [7], its relationship with meaning [8], different models of inference [9], digital transformation [22], and artificial intelligence [10,23]
Summary
As the world becomes more digital, the success of all types of organisation depends more and more on how good they are at processing information. Information evolution is based on two underlying ideas, namely, information connection and adaptation to the environment. More detail, derived from [6,7], is provided in Appendix A, which explores the underlying concepts and explains the diagramming conventions The developed principles link directly to information connection models and the associated information measures This opens the possibility of developing information evolution models of the effects of organisational silos and organisational change on information measures. This will be the topic of further research
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