Responsibility & Information [Organisations]
Decentralised, distributed responsibility (decision-making) and open information systems, lower the cost of conceiving, implementing and distributing ideas, and liberate individual fulfilment. Recording individual decisions in open information systems distributes knowledge, informs future decision-making and ensures accountability. Ideas (better ways of doing things or human potential) and implementing them (realising potential) are most effective and inexpensive when they are conceived and implemented by those whom they effect. At this level ideas are only adopted if they make a real improvement to our work, making it more efficient or more effective, that is, reducing the amount of work required or improving the result from the same amount of work. At the level where an idea is applicable we often do not ask (or receive) extra money for the development and implementation of our ideas, but we still develop and implement them because they make our job easier and because contributing re...