Manifesto for Adaptive Maturity

We are discovering ways to build technologies that better align with the human capacity to gain value from it by building that technology in an Adaptive Maturity way and helping others to do so.

What is Adaptive Maturity?

We define Adaptive Maturity as the automatic evolution of technology alongside its users, adjusting to their changing technical or business maturity.

Why Adaptive Maturity?

Today, most technologies are created using a disposability paradigm: designed to solve a problem at a specific point in time, in a specific environment, by producing a fixed set of capabilities. That technology will inevitably require updates or replacement as the environment changes.

People grow, learn, and adapt. Technology should anticipate this and be designed to automatically adapt as the users evolve.

Principles of Adaptive Maturity

We follow these principles when creating Adptive Maturity technology

• People constantly grow, learn and adapt, so should technology.
• Our primary measure of good technology is alignment. Technology is only useful if it is aligned with the users capacity to gain value from it.
• Good alignment focuses on current user capabilities, and giving them growth opportunities to grow to a higher maturity.
• Understanding user maturity is best achieved through empirical measurements. Adaptive Maturity process should remove subjective bias by being data driven.
• No one left behind – Organisations build the strongest teams by insisting experienced individuals support others in raising their business maturity.
• For an organisation to gain maturity and evolve, change is required at all levels – very top to very bottom.
• Designs for Adaptive Maturity should be built in maturity stair steps intended to be achieved over periods of time, from months to quarters to years.
• Software for everyone is software for no one - there is no perfect on-size fits all technology solution, Adaptive Maturity technology should start with the lowest common maturity in an organisation and focus on raising the minimum level.
• Technology built around the principles of Adaptive Maturity should continuously measure and monitor user engagement and capabilities and adjust the technology to match. This mitigates technology obsolescence.

Applying Adaptive Maturity

Apply these principles to your organisation, your team, your approach to technology. Let’s change how we think about the role of technology and how it supports its users. Challenge static design. Build technology that adapts to its users and aligns with their needs to deliver value.

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