The Butterfly Effects

It is not an easy campaign to change a global mindset over night, even if we want to change twice. We can only introduce small meaningful changes that may eventually have butterfly effects.

The term butterfly effect refers to the idea that a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately causes a tornado to appear (but not prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to a large-scale phenomenon. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. 9

The butterfly effect supports the theory of strong outcomes base on small initial conditions. Small changes evolve into big and meaningful change over time.

This paper prescribes two ways of initiating small changes that could evolve into big and meaningful outcomes over time: (1) Corporate Paperless Initiatives - as a corporate programme by aligning process improvement with paperless office, and (2) Personal Paperless systems - as individuals by changing old habits of consuming papers and using a system of managing information or knowledge at personal level and in a paperless way.

I will be discussing them in details in my next blog.

Reference:
9. http://www.answers.com/topic/butterfly-effect-2?cat=technology