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Working with Variation to Support Good Decision Making – A Systemic Approach Part 7

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In our previous post we looked at understanding variation and processes. In this post we continue with Step Three of the Decalogue Management Method , “Make the system stable (understand variation and its impact on the network)” by looking at gathering data and why that matters. There are two kinds of variation.

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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. It’s not enough to ask people to change.

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Why Your Organization’s Constraints are the Key to Success – A Systemic Approach Part 8

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Eliyahu Goldratt’s main contribution to the theory of management has been to point out that any system is limited toward its goal by very few elements , the constraints. In other words, we can always decide which constraint it is strategically more convenient to focus on as a leverage point and build the system accordingly.

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Are Companies with Hierarchical/Functional Mindsets Dinosaurs? A Systemic Approach Part 14

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It is also an enormous opportunity for all those companies who decide to abandon flawed thinking and adopt an evolved approach. This completes the section of this series on Step 7 of the Decalogue: ‘Create a suitable systemic/organizational structure: design and manage the company as a Network of Projects). What to change to.

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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. When we r educe p r oduction, people have less work to do; the work can be done by fewer people.

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The Science of Thinking Breakthroughs from Dr. Domenico Lepore for Today’s Complex Business Environment

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Today’s post is a quick break from our series on a systemic approach to org design, management and operations. This week, part one of a two-part interview with Domenico went live. Part two goes live next month.) So it’s a good opportunity to put together several interviews with Domenico on one page.

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Controlling the Whole Organization through the Constraint – A Systemic Approach Part 10

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Step Five of the Decalogue Method is: Manage the constraint (protect and control the system through buffer management). A strategically chosen constraint is what allows us to manage the organization as one, whole system. Individual processes in our system exhibit variation; two or more together do too and this is called covariance.