A633.3.4.RB - Complexity Science .Mull.Brandon

Reflect on your own organization's strategy, how has it evolved over time?

The main strategy for my company is to increase size in order to handle more work and incorporate more processes to decrease outsourcing. The strategy has evolved to continue to grow and improve on the processes. The company is also trying to grow in the spectrum of customer in order to incorporate the military. This evolution in strategy is a reflection on how the company empowers its employees to be more responsible with less managerial overhead.

“Organizations are moving from a machine type organization which can be ‘run’ to a more fluid organic type of organization which runs itself’(Obolensky,2014). By challenging its employees with more responsibilities, my organization wants to have a self-reliant employee. An example of this strategy, to evolve with the computer age, with a program to assist the employee to show them what part is needed to be done next in their area. With this program, the employee knows what’s t next and doesn’t need a manager to be over their shoulder handing them the next part.

Discuss each stage of development how feedback and strategy formulation have changed over time

            The development of strategy formulation has changed in my organization by working with customers and competitors to improve the process. A recent project worked with a close competitor to improve the process of a part. The competitor shared how they completed a process and through R&D got the process approved by OEM to be standard practice in the MM. My organization had the resources to get the process to be standard by doing the research and proving the process worked.

Consider the next steps in your company's evolution and describe what it will look like in 10 years

            The next step on the company’s evolution will be handling larger parts and doing more assembly work. Engines are continually getting larger. My company is only able to handle the smaller parts but, in the future, we are planning to work on larger parts. With the aviation industry retiring the small less efficient engines, the industry will have grown with the size of the new engines. Larger parts require a lot of space and larger machines to work on them. My organization is acquiring larger machines and work space to comply with the demand of larger parts.

The evolution of assembly in my organization is going to be a large step in the future. The current process is that individual parts will come to my organization to get an overhaul. In the next 10 years, my company has the plan to start taking whole engines and overhauling them.

Where will you be in the next 10 years?

            Within the next ten years, I hope to be the lead inspector or mechanic depending on the evolution of the company. In 10 years, I will have adequate experience to be looking into the crew chief position. I will need to take on more responsibilities and have more field experience with employees. I am already taking steps to get to my goal by taking more responsibilities and being the lead example of my team.

 

Obolensky, N. (2014). Complex adaptive leadership: Embracing paradox and uncertainty. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Gower.