Keith asks in an earlier post if rate of change is a measure of LO.
An alternative might be to ask where the stability is located. If
stability is defined by a slow rate of change, then perhaps we are not
looking at an LO. If, on the other hand, events change rapidly, but
underlying business processes remain relatively stable, then we are closer
to a LO. Perhaps finally, when underlying ways of thinking, organizing,
and collaborating are stable, but business processes change rapidly, we
are even closer to an LO.
For example, retailers experience rapid rates of change, but basically the
business processes are pretty stable. Computer companies also experience
rapid change, and business processes historically have also been pretty
stable. Now, computer companies are dealing with a rapidly changing
marketplace. Business processes may be changing rapidly, and one would
hope that the LOs among the computer companies would be trying to develop
stable working processes, that is thinking, organizing, and collaborating.
I think this is comparable to the second derivative in mathematics.
Does this add anything?
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