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Fractal Entrepreneurship in Organisations<sup>© </sup>

Unleash the craftsmanship in your organisation

Each of us is happiest when we do what we are good at and what we love doing. When we are able to turn the ideas that come from our expertise into reality and we get to experience the results of that. But how can you ensure that expertise and craftsmanship can develop within the organisation? That people take more initiative, and that those initiatives are also accepted and appreciated?

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Fractal (or ‘layered’) entrepreneurship recognises 3 ‘breakthrough’ areas (layers) that are important for the development of entrepreneurship in organisations:

The individual craftsman/craftswoman
The team, the department, the project group
The organisation or leadership

What is Fractal Entrepreneurship?

What is.. Fractal Entrepreneurship?

‘The creation of a climate within an organisation that is fertile for craftsmanship and collaboration, so as to generate an optimal exchange with clients and the community’

Wat is.. Fractaal Ondernemer -schap ?

‘Het creëren van een organisatie klimaat als ‘bedding’ voor vakmanschap en samenwerking om zo de meest optimale uitwisseling met clienten en omgeving te realiseren’

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Value creation through individual and collaborative craftsmanship

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Generating the best ideas for both client and organisation with teams / departments

[themify_icon icon=”fa-sitemap”]Organisation
In a stimulating and supportive organisational culture

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Individu

Waarde creatie door individueel en collaboratief vakmanschap

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Team

De beste ideeën voor klant én organisatie realiseren met teams / afdeling

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Organisatie

In een stimulerend en ondersteunend organisatieklimaat

The design of fractal entrepreneurship in your organisation means:

Creating the optimal conditions for personal entrepreneurship and self-realisation

Entering into real collaborative cooperation where diversity is embraced on a daily basis

An organisation that is inspired by its vision and mission and with the freedom to learn and try again

Fractal entrepreneurship creates a culture of Change & Innovation, so that the organisation can develop from the inside out and respond to the changing needs of clients and community.

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How does fractal entrepreneurship work?

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How does Fractal Entrepreneurship work?

The drivers of entrepreneurial people

Scientific research continues to indicate the following 5 drivers of entrepreneurship. For the individual, the drivers all point to self-realisation and feelings of self-esteem, an important key to the fractal entrepreneurship approach
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Achievement

Everyone can make a difference in their own way and at their own pace. Delivering a substantial contribution gives an enormous feeling of achievement. That is a reward that represents an important source of motivation.

It’s also important for an organisation to want to make a difference for the clients it serves. That difference is the essence of why the organisation exists.
Freedom

The feeling of being able to determine your own path, and when and how you do that. Somewhere along the way to working and earning a paycheck we lost that. Determining for yourself how things happen is an important pillar of self-realisation.

When you determine your own path, what you create is of significance, and you experience yourself as being significant. While you are setting you own path, you also begin to understand that you must take responsibility. You are in charge.
Growth

When you are being innovative, you will come across things you have never done before or that you have little knowledge about. From within your motivation to do the things you think are important, you are willing to learn because you know it is necessary for achieving your goal. It gives a feeling of achievement when something new becomes ‘second nature’ and you have progressed to the next level.

The alternative is that if you do not develop and grow, you end up standing still. You stop making progress and that causes your motivation to decrease. Through personal growth, you increase your abilities and, with that, your opportunities: it helps you to experience self-realisation and self-esteem.
Value Exchange

It may seem obvious: if you have the opportunity to take matters into your own hands in order to deliver a better product or service, that could lead to a higher material reward for your efforts. And here also: when you can make your living using your own ideas and efforts, it gives a great sense of achievement.

There is something else at play under the surface here. It is not true that as long as the material reward gets larger and larger, the sense of achievement becomes greater and greater. It is essentially the same for value exchange: receiving the appropriate rewards for your craftsmanship.
Pride

Everyone needs a certain level of recognition. The most modest level is probably simply being noticed. Pride within organisations is also about seeing and recognising each other’s craftsmanship, so that we can help each other to create the greatest value for the customer.

As a craftsman or craftswoman, it is important to feel pride for your own ideas, and to present them, too. This doesn’t mean making yourself bigger or more important than you are. Simply showing exactly what you’ve got. Nothing more. And certainly nothing less!

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What is a Fractal?

In mathematics and in nature, we can see fractals in objects such as ice crystals and ferns.

A fractal is a form that repeats itself at ever smaller scale. The exact same form can be seen in each repetition (self-similar). The term Fractal comes from the Latin Fractalus, meaning ‘broken’ or ‘fractured.’ The fractured dimensions of a fractal mean that a ‘break’ occurs in each dimension (or layer). Each level is clearly distinguishable from the next.

These same properties are also visible in Entrepreneurship in Organisations. The drivers of entrepreneurship that help give space to craftsmanship appear in the layer where collaboration happens (teams, department, etc.) as well as in the layer responsible for setting the criteria, the organisation or leadership.

Drivers of entrepreneurship at the organisational level

In the team/departmental and organisational layers, we see these drivers, in departments, roles and positions:

[themify_icon icon=”fa-fire”]stands for the vision and the mission of the organisation that are defined and implemented under the supervision of the leadership

[themify_icon icon=”fa-arrows-alt”]concerns the space that the leadership and craftsmen are given, and take up, to the benefit of their own initiatives and mandate for making their own decisions

[themify_icon icon=”fa-leaf”]is about learning in the organisation. The Personnel or HR department is still often the advocate for taking growth further

[themify_icon icon=”fa-refresh”]can be found in the financial department and the shareholders. Material reward systems are not simply about money, but rather the exchange of value :

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Clients

[themify_icon icon=”fa-eye”]looks at how clients experience the organisation. That applies to all of the client-facing roles such as salespeople, technicians, repairmen, call center agents, etc., but also to the product that allows the client to experience craftsmanship

By making these drivers explicit and giving them form in the different layers at once, the organisatie is further strengthened to create a place where:

people perceive themselves as growing and love to work
collaboration provides fun, and ‘1+1 = 5, 6, 7….10?’ really does happen
change and innovation both inside and outside the organisation are the norm

Fractal entrepreneurship can be used for various themes and applications in the organisation

The Applications

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The Applications

When there is a change in the organisation, Fractal Entrepreneurship in Organisations offers insights into the conditions under which people find it easier to self-start, and to stand up for what they want.

The organisational topics below are examples of the areas of application for Fractal Entrepreneurship in Organisations:
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These and other change management themes in organisations never stand on their own and are instead always an extension of what the (new) mission and goals of the organisation are.

Meulenkamp & Zo supports organisations in organisation-wide or team/departmental interventions, and at the individual level. Our approach is characterised by our use of:

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