by Philip Boxer In the previous blog on strategy ceilings, I made reference to architectures as describing the way differentiated behaviors are integrated. How are these architectures to be described? What makes relational architectures different?…
Category: centre vs edge
by Philip Boxer Everyone is collaborating these days. Collaboration has come to mean any working together by some team of specialists around a common goal. But is there something different about a collaboration that is…
by Philip Boxer Practice-based commissioning is intended to overcome the difficulty of driving a health care reform agenda centrally through locating management of the health care ecosystem not at its center, but at its edges…
by Philip Boxer The UK Government wants practice-based commissioning in order to sustain an effective focus on the increasingly chronic conditions of an aging population – in a way that can hold clinicians accountable (see…
by Philip Boxer Lawrence and Lorsch (1969) originated the framework of differentiation and integration for describing the agency of an enterprise. Their argument was that there had to be congruence between the forms of differentiation…
by Philip Boxer
We situate leadership between the asymmetry of self and of other, which presents a challenge: in meeting the needs of the other, to what extent must leadership go beyond what it knows of itself? And by what authority will it choose to do so? These are the questions that we want to follow here.
by Philip Boxer The following questions were asked by Larry Hirschhorn about the blog on empowering the edge role, following which are my responses: Larry: You say that edge work is breaking out almost everywhere….
by Philip Boxer Preliminaries An edge role is on a task boundary in which the systems of meaning on either side of the boundary are different: some form of translation is required. The task facing…