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Abstract:
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Requisite variety has influenced concepts of environmental relations of organization
for almost half a century. This article develops the concept of ‘requisite foresight’
on the basis of its roots in cybernetics and extends its applicability to contemporary
knowledge management. Organization theory incorporating a temporal aspect
and reaching for ‘requisite foresight’ challenges a dualistic and rigid interpretation of
organizational environment. If considered within a network of organizations ‘distributed
knowledge’ paves the way for ‘requisite foresight’. A ‘foresight’ approach explains
prevalent perspectives in new e-business applications, like supply chain management
and customer relationship management. Concluding, ‘requisite foresight’
merges strands of reasoning useful to the expansion of organizational models in the
knowledge economy. |
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