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Chi is the specific context or environment that a system individual or organisation operates within and engages with.
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| Attribute | Value | Notes | |
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| Class | NoamFramework | ||
| Name | Chi | ||
| Type | Property | ||
| Symbol | χ | ||
| Namespace | GrandFramework_0_1_0.Cliome.Meme.Chi | ||
| Version | 0.1.0 | ||
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Properties
Parent: Rho
Siblings:
Child: None
Other: Sigma, Nu, Pi, Tau, Upsilon, Eta, Omega, Omicron, Xi
Specific Classes
In brief
Symbol system
χ
Details
A system, individual or organisation operates within the context of an environment. At the widest scope, this is cosmic. Chi, however, is the direct environment that the system interacts with; that which it can detect and can influence. This can include the physical environment, other people, the climate or weather, markets, and so on. Much of what can be said about chi has been detailed by general systems theory and complexity. The noam’s engagement with the environment is close to the theory of cybernetics.
Of importance are fluctuations in environmental conditions which impact the system. These externalities represent opportunities and threats, against which the system pitches its strengths and weaknesses. The system must adjust and adapt to the environment, by generating and enacting appropriate behaviour, in order to maintain integrity. In the noam model, the influence of the environment (chi) on the system is given as sigma.
On the other hand, the behaviour that the system enacts in response to environmental change, in turn, has some likely affect back on the environment. In the noam model, this kinetic response is denoted rho.
Hence the environment influences the system and the system influences the environment, thereby forming a feedback loop whereby sigma and rho are the interfaces across the system’s boundary:
χ → σ → ρ → χ
In order to maintain integrity, or in noamic terms terminating uni-stability, the noam attempts to provide an optimal relationship between its sigma input information about the environment and its rho kinetic response to those environmental changes. This internal functioning is given by other sections of the noam framework.
In corporate strategy and economics, a number of analytical tools such as PEST analysis and so on have been detailed.
Relation of other framework elements
Examples
{law, science, sales (direct, MLM), PR, military, thermostat, environmentalism, the cat sat on the mat}
Sales (direct)
For a customer, the environment is mostly about their problems and what they can do to resolve them. Usually, there are numerous situations competing for their attention; numerous opportunities to address those issues; and a variety of solutions. This can lead to a sales situation where they are looking to purchase some device or service that will alleviate at least some of their pressure. For example, someone with a lawn that is becoming unkempt might want to find a device to cut the grass, hire some service, or just pave the whole thing over. Achieving such would involve selection from the alternative solutions. Should they want to keep their lawn and opt for DIY then they are likely to go on-line or walk into some gardening centre. The environment then, might be that of being surrounded by competing products with a range of specifications and price points (lawnmowers) and some sales staff.
For the vendor and the salesperson, there is the environmental pressure of keeping the business going and making a living within the context of economic factors of supply, demand, competition and so on. A going concern has to make sales to meet with such factors and adapt to changes in them. The day to day life of trading is well-established practice and well known to the field of economics and management. It requires an understanding of customers, competitors and emerging solutions as some of those environmental components. A specific sales situation would be a case that involves a customer entering into the vendor’s environment, wherein the customer is looking for a solution and the vendor would attempt to profit from providing that solution.
The customer and vendor, therefore, become aspects of each other’s environments, and the sales process becomes that of interacting with each other’s environments. Both are acting within the wider common environment of the marketplace.
Sales (MLM)
For MLM, the direct sales model may still hold but has the additional components of recruiting distributors. An existing distributor would engage in direct selling but also would consider other people they are in contact with as being potential downlines. Hence, their noams will include those of recruitment in response to spotting a prospective distributor entering their social environment.
A prospect, on the other hand, might encounter a distributor that is looking to build their downline. The sponsoring distributor, the network, the business opportunity, and their pitch, would then become aspects of the potential recruits environment.
Again, in MLM, this is an example of two interacting agents becoming parts of each other’s environment, and would be modelled in the noam framework as such.