2.1.3 Learning and Adaptation

Subject to the two constraints (Technological and Operational), Idealized Design imposes one absolutely critical requirement: Learning and Adaptation.

The organization should be designed to rapidly learn from and adapt to its own successes and failures, as well as those of others. It must be capable of adapting to internal and external changes that affect its performance, and capable of anticipating such changes and taking appropriate action before they occur.

This aligns seamlessly with the Cybernetic laws defined earlier (like the Law of Requisite Variety). It requires that the organization be deeply susceptible to continual, systemic redesign by its internal and external stakeholders.