You Know It Makes Sense to Respond
In organizations, just as in organisms, responding suitably to critical threats can be a matter of life and death.
The zebra that fails to detect the stalking lion becomes that lion’s dinner. Yet a zebra continually fleeing imagined threats would be just as vulnerable, risking death by exhaustion or a blunder into hostile territory in which it simply could not survive.
Matters are not so different on the corporate savannah. Events – many of them impossible to anticipate – can threaten from both inside and outside the organization. Competitors, governments, news organizations and markets can create both opportunities and threats.
When the grasslands of the marketplace are constantly shifting, organizations will only prosper if they can react – fast – to both internal and external events. That is why sense and respond (S&R) systems will inevitably – and probably in just a few short years – become commonplace, according to Dr K Mani Chandy, professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). These systems, as their name suggests, sense, and then respond to opportunities and threats, then expand an enterprise’s capacity to react.
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