Holonic Rich Pictures
Mapping messy organisational situations as ecologies of humans, documents, tools, agents, risks and reporting — every node both a part and a whole.
Soft Systems Methodology gives us rich pictures — informal diagrams of messy human situations. Holonic thinking gives us a way to formalise them without flattening them. A rich picture rendered holonically is not a flowchart and not an org chart; it is a working map of who knows what, what speaks to what, where the pressure points are, and where AI can usefully sit.
This page carries a live demo: a small-organisation situation mapped as a holonic rich picture, with humans, documents, tools, workflows, risks, AI assistants, governance points and reporting outputs all visible at once.
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