Thursday, April 5, 2012

How to avoid the dominant logic of the activity to "kill" the new experiments?

The new created solutions, which follow a new logic or concept of the activity, are usually fragile. The expansion from abstract to concrete special attention to the logic or principle followed in the experiment. If left by its own, there is tendency that the dominant principle (such as standardization in mass production) "kills" the germ-cell, the new logic or principle in the created concept.

The process of ascending from abstract to concrete may stop by the old principle of working. This problem leads to two challenges:

Theoretical challenge
This leads to the questions? How to see the process of ascending from abstract to concrete so that we could represent more clearly the old and the new logic? How to take into account the influence of the old dominant logic (e.g. mass production)?

Practical challenge
What practical solutions could help us to avoid this problem? One possible practical solution is to concentrate in fewer solutions but with a longer-time follow-up or cooperation with the researcher. In other words, work with fewer ideas for a longer time. This would allow the core key new ideas of the the new concept to become locally more robust and increase the chance of becoming more sustainable. It means taking longer periods of follow-up of the same change laboratory.

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