Infrastructure autopoiesis: requisite variety to engage complexity
Infrastructure autopoiesis: requisite variety to engage complexity
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基础设施自创生：应对复杂性的必要多样性
DOI：
10.1088/2634-4505/ac4b48
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Allenby, Braden
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作者：
Chester, Mikhail V.;Allenby, Braden
基础设施系统必须改变，以适应其运行环境日益复杂的情况。然而，治理模式及其所依赖的核心技术是围绕相对长期稳定的模式构建的，这些模式似乎越来越不充分，甚至存在问题。随着基础设施功能所处的环境变得更加复杂，基础设施系统必须进行调整，以制定一套足以应对日益多样化的条件和挑战的应对措施。在过去，基础设施领导和系统设计强调主要侧重于剥削的组织战略(例如，效率和生产，服从稳定条件)，但在未来，他们必须为探索创造空间，创新组织是什么和做什么。他们将需要通过创造参与环境复杂性所需的知识、流程和技术来创造在日益复杂的环境中保持自身的能力。我们将这种能力称为基础设施自动生成。在这样做的时候，基础设施组织应该把重点放在四个关键原则上。首先，有必要从僵化的进程和技术转向可持续适应--面对经常以不确定为标志的不稳定状况而永久改变。其次，基础设施组织应该重组其官僚机构，以便在整个组织的层次结构中横向分配更多的资源和决策能力。第三，他们应该建立地平线扫描的能力，这是一个系统地在环境中寻找机会和威胁的过程。第四，他们应该强调宽松的设计，即资产能够随着环境的变化灵活地调整功能。无法处理复杂性预计将导致我们的基础设施系统能够做的事情与我们需要它们做的事情之间的脱钩，而自动生成能力可能会为出现足够的剧目创造条件，从而帮助缩小这一差距。
Infrastructure systems must change to match the growing complexity of the environments they operate in. Yet the models of governance and the core technologies they rely on are structured around models of relative long-term stability that appear increasingly insufficient and even problematic. As the environments in which infrastructure function become more complex, infrastructure systems must adapt to develop a repertoire of responses sufficient to respond to the increasing variety of conditions and challenges. Whereas in the past infrastructure leadership and system design has emphasized organization strategies that primarily focus on exploitation (eg, efficiency and production, amenable to conditions of stability), in the future they must create space for exploration, the innovation of what the organization is and does. They will need to create the abilities to maintain themselves in the face of growing complexity by creating the knowledge, processes, and technologies necessary to engage environment complexity. We refer to this capacity as infrastructure autopoiesis. In doing so infrastructure organizations should focus on four key tenets. First, a shift to sustained adaptation—perpetual change in the face of destabilizing conditions often marked by uncertainty—and away from rigid processes and technologies is necessary. Second, infrastructure organizations should pursue restructuring their bureaucracies to distribute more resources and decisionmaking capacity horizontally, across the organization's hierarchy. Third, they should build capacity for horizon scanning, the process of systematically searching the environment for opportunities and threats. Fourth, they should emphasize loose fit design, the flexibility of assets to pivot function as the environment changes. The inability to engage with complexity can be expected to result in a decoupling between what our infrastructure systems can do and what we need them to do, and autopoietic capabilities may help close this gap by creating the conditions for a sufficient repertoire to emerge.
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