unstructured approach

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Unstructured approach is the idea of organizing a set of objects by putting them into a pile and call it a day.

It is opposed to structured approach of workflow design, where structures are designed(typically hierarchy) to categorize objects and direct the flow of information.

For unstructured approach to work, it is essential to have a

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an corporation using unstructured approach could take form of multiple project teams, loosely organized under a larger organization, on a basis of perhaps shared work space/resource.

Mediation in such corporation could be problematic, as a global shared ground is not there; but as long as a ground for mediation is specified(perhaps thorugh another local effort), this structure of organization is ideal for flat decision process, any decision would be fast to put through.

helpful activity

(pro)

  • increase engagement to activities overall. There’s less “fearing to attempt”, as nothing else than helpfulness, which honestly can be quite multi paradigm and vaguely true(you can deem most things as helpful to something), will be taken into account.
  • is unstructured approach
  • easily working, does not require much training or customization.

activity-based plan and stage-based plan

(Activity-based plan)

Activity-based plans works analoguesly in the whole lifecyle of the plan: by performing activities.

Typically, a list of activities would be present, each of them would contribute to the objective, and all of them would be performed repeatedly thorough out until the objective is accomplished.

examples are work out plans and studying routine.

corresponding to unstructured approach

helpful activities

(stay organized)

local plan is welcomed and essential in unstructured approach.

Author: Linfeng He

Created: 2024-04-03 Wed 23:16