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Improving Flow Company Wide – A Systemic Approach Part 9

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We need a practical and effective way to coordinate all our resources into a flow that overcomes the artificial limitations of functions (silos) and traditional hierarchy. Let’s stress this point again: individuals with a set of competencies do not belong to a company function. An example of improving flow company-wide.

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Why Complexity Impacts Your Organization

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We are particularly honoured to be publishing something again with Springer, this time as part of their SpringerBriefs in Complexity Series. Dividing up an organization as a traditional functional hierarchy that does not take into account the systemic nature of a company creates a series of problems. What’s wrong with silos?

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Why HR Is So Much More than a Department – A Systemic Approach Part 17

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To be economically sustainable, a company must be designed for speed of flow. Managing a company as a system means designing and managing all the interdependencies so they are able to reliably produce what we are selling. The role of HR in a systemic organization. HR plays a very important role in this.

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Leading and Managing Change Effectively: It’s A Process that Includes You – A Systemic Approach Part 11

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They need to be part of building the change and in that way they can own it. We can say with confidence after introducing these Thinking Processes to companies for over twenty years that they are an extraordinary support for introducing and managing change in a way that can work. They need to be part of building the change.

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Continuous Learning is a Must for Organizations Today – A Systems Approach Part 18

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This means we have to ensure a mechanism is in place that allows us to generate and update the knowledge we need in order to manage our system. A systemic organization is one where continuous improvement is at its heart. These are the desires to: ◾ Belong and to bond (be part of a community). The value of interactions.

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Shifting Your Focus from Cost to Throughput is How You Can Thrive – a Systemic Approach Part 15

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In the previous posts in this series, we looked at how to build and manage an organization as a system to radically improve performance and compete in today’s complex, non-linear global business environment. So far, we have looked at aspects of the company that are internal. So what can we do?

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Sell More of What Your Company Does with the Resources You Already Have (External Constraint) – A Systemic Approach Part 16

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It is called ‘External Constraint’ and it is Step 8 of the Decalogue: Step 8: Eliminate the external constraint (sell all the capacity the system has available. What is radically different about the External Constraint approach to marketing and sales? Goldratt has identified and that we looked at in Part 11 of this series.

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