Do Borders and Boundaries Model Success Frames?
I’d like to put some ideas out there. Then let’s see what folks would like to say. Here we go… Firms, agencies, non-profits, cooperatives, and self-employment interest clusters are places in which we work, explore, and deliver value. In looking at recursive flows, combinations, and re-combinations leading to value creation, Stephen Wolfram’s work with cellular automata is intriguing, self-promoting, serious, and worth pursuing as we look at the idea of applying systemic frameworks to wicked problem topics such as healthcare or sustainable regional economics, where simple rules can generate complex structures and behaviors. Regarding automata, let’s observe that boundary interactions can be defined across sets of objects to generate organized or chaotic patterns, depending on interaction rules and object geometries, i.e., the space in which the objects reside. This reminds me of the framing applied in 2008 to border issues for two situations – in one case a town, and in the other case a
