[Seminar] by Gitte Tjørnehøj. From Claudio Ciborra's "Drift" to "managing drifting digital development"

People tried to do planning to manage situations, companies, technology and so on. However, when the situation radically change, all of the plannings cannot fully response to.

The idea of this seminar told that "stop planning" and be ready for every changes occurs. (Drift). The drifting caused by the complexity of the change, more control means more drift.

That is when the idea of "Improvisation" comes in. The change is important, urgent and people just do not know how, leads to Improvisation.

For example, within a specific situation, where the current system does not fully response to the user's needs, the user improvise by "hacking" (changing in some ways)

And improvisation leads to unique solution.

However, we need to frame improvisation within the specific context. (Minimal Structure)

Every people can improvise, why do we need managers?

• Communication and Collaboration?
• Setting and managing "minimal structure"?
• Aligning?

I though about using improvisation trend to identify the correct direction for organization strategy.