XSCALE Podcast #12: Ecosystems Thinking (Part One)
Ecosystems Thinking is the intersection of Holmgren’s Permaculture, Beck’s XP, Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, and Senge’s Systems Thinking. Permaculture isn't like the others as it concerns biological ecosystems, not fossil-fuelled corporate ones. But Permaculture is the key to the business of business agility.
The biggest corporations are ecosystems. Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, banks, utilities, and the media medical military complex all cultivate networks of mutual benefit among many market segments, not one time products to single-purpose end-users. Permaculture provides essential principles for designing any ecosystem. It will sustain learning ecosystems in corporations just as well as it does biological ones in high-yield small-holding farms.
In recent months, Business Agility Coach Francis Liu and I have been working to specialise Permaculture principles to agile organizations. This podcast represents our first public draft of this work.