Each dimension impacts the others

• Organizations are pattern-based, “complex adaptive systems.”
• The Eoyang CDE (Containers, Differences, Exchanges) model provides a framework and tools for describing and influencing these complex systems.

• Containers: Holds the agents together until system-wide patterns can form.
• Differences: Provides the potential for change and defines the emergent pattern.
• (Transforming) Exchanges: Establishes the connections among agents and between individuals and the whole.

Used with permission by the Human Systems Dynamics Institute (www.hsdinstitute.org)