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Observe, Orient, Decide and Act Cycle and Pattern-Based Strategy: Characteristics and Complementation
Last modified: 2012-07-16
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview on pattern-based approaches. It introduces the pattern-based strategies and explores disciplines and technologies to enable business leaders to advance from traditional information disciplines to seeking patterns of change (from people, process and information) and acting on them. Also, it presents theories and frameworks and the properties available for the achievement of successful leading of the businesses during times of rapid and unpredictable change aiming at adaptive organization: Observe, Orient, Decide and Act (OODA) cycle and Pattern-Based Strategy (PBS) as well as explore their characteristics and complementation. Finally, it discusses how senior executives, planners and architects can apply OODA and PBS to speed up organizational decision making and coordinated response to change in organizations that are striving to be adaptable and describes the underlying technology.