ABSTRACT

This chapter explains system objectives and their orientation towards learning or towards the avoidance of events and the consequences of each type of orientation. It describes the role of various characteristics that, once a certain level of complexity is reached, constitute barriers to learning, and explores global vision, in terms of organizational paradigms and their suitability to the objective of learning. The learning obtained through event analysis has led to increasing the organization's ability to attend to foreseen situations. In place of trusting in the unpredictable human being, from a technology dominant logic, it seems a better solution to materialize the competencies in technological form or establish strict procedures to attend to foreseeable events. Technical systems can achieve great precision in the analysis of those subjects related to obtaining maximum production from minimum consumption. The biological or organic model paradigm represents a superior evolutionary step compared with technical systems.