Chaos <-----> Order and somewhere in between is Chaordic. A not quite out of control or in control system that provides enough support for people to get by.
To give a real world non IT example of this concept let me describe to you Kinshasa which is the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is a place where you would say, coming from the west, “This place is in complete Chaos!” There seems to be no regulated transport, rubbish lays everywhere, people seem to go all over the place and there is to our ordered western thinking “no structure”.
However given a couple of days, if you are observant, you begin to see the order in the chaos. The Chaordic system which is to us broken, is to them workable. For example, three types of transport; Buses, forget them; Mini Vans, the real people movers, full of soldered bullet holes with no glass windows and finally private cars (taxis), now there is travelling style, but watch for the potholes. Rubbish somehow does get collected and on the whole commerce and daily life seem to get by.
This description is rather like some corporate information systems that I have seen. Differing types of transport, which you soon learn the best to use, this repository that one, differing modes of getting there. Garbage collection of a type depending on the precinct that you live in, and currency in the information through finding a way and working out what is useful and what is not. Not the best but chaordic in nature. This type of system is out there and possibly closer to you than you think.
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