Harold,
Thanks for riffing off of my AAA theme! The three As actually emerged from network research on adaptive organizations that Orgnet, LLC did with the IBM Consulting Group in the late 1990s. We continued the research to get to the bottom of Adaptivity (ability to agilely adjust) [yes, I love alliteration] by examining even more networks of adaptive and non-adaptive organizations. We have actual network measures to see how "AAA" your organization really is -- it is like a CAT-scan (insightful, but not sufficient) -- allowing you to "see the sociology" in action in the organization. It is easy to see the hierarchy in your organization, we can now map (and measure) the wirearchy also! These measures are like general medical measures your doctor performs on you to assess your general well-being, they are not like accounting/financial measures, which have stringent rules and expectations.

Valdis