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Professional Services to Help Your Organization
With a Transformation to Complexity

Lawrimore Communications has provided a variety of consulting, planning and organization development services to business, government and nonprofit organizations for over 20 years. We are very excited about the power of Complexity to truly transform organizations into fast-adapting, innovative, energetic powerhouses, places where people love to work. We are currently helping several clients with Complexity transformations, and we would be delighted to help you.

Complexity offers many powerful benefits to organizations which use it:

• People enjoy their work more and feel more energized.
• Creativity, flexibility and innovation are maximized.
• Continuous adapting to change is made easier.
• The emphasis on continuous learning enables people to develop and grow.
• Customer relations and satisfaction are improved.
• New opportunities for increased income and profits are developed.
• The organization is able to consistently outperform its competitors.

Complexity is organization-wide but dramatically different from strategic planning and other top-down forms of control. In fact the reason those old methods don't work is that they are top-down and try to control people. That just does not work, especially in these times of rapid change. If you've had any experience with strategic planning, you know that plans become outdated as soon as they are written and become increasingly irrelevant with the passage of time.

Complexity is not a management technique like TQM, re-engineering or The Balanced Scorecard. It is not something you do. It is something you become. For example being fully human is not something you do, it is something you become. Complexity organizations are constantly becoming. They understand that the best way to adapt to change and not fall behind is to be constantly evolving. And they know that because they are not in control of their environments, they cannot precisely plan what they will do next. The cutting edge of change is right now, in the moment. Complexity organizations adapt to today's headlines and the events that affect them. Their fluid structure and energized people allow them to do that. Planning is limited to internal things that can be controlled, like building design and equipment purchases.

Realistically, Complexity is not for everyone. Organizations which must follow standard procedures, like the military, police or the courts system, cannot afford rapid innovation, to "make it up as they go along." But for business, nonprofit, and those government agencies which do value innovation, it is dynamite.

The process which Lawrimore provides to help organizations with Complexity transformations is based on the latest practices which are being discovered and evolved as we speak. Companies as diverse as Monsanto, Citicorp, hospitals, ad agencies, software and technology firms, manufacturers and retailers are constantly becoming Complexity organizations. But our approach is unique in that it also incorporates our extensive studies of other "success secrets" of America's leading companies plus our 35 years of diverse professional experience.

Read our Introduction to Complexity and you'll get a feel for what a transformation involves. Then contact us to arrange a meeting or telephone conversation:
Lawrimore Communications Inc.
E. W. "Buck" Lawrimore, President
704-525-4775 (Charlotte, NC)
Email info@lciweb.com