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Is The Structure Of The Organization Really That Important?

The Horizons Tracker

Systems intelligence describes the connection of human sensitivity and engineering thinking. It takes full account of the interaction between individuals and their environment while examining people and organizations through things such as attitude, attunement, systemic perception, and effective responsiveness. .

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change.

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EBM: Systems Thinking

LDRLB

Systems thinking techniques may be used to study any kind of system — natural, scientific, engineered, human, or conceptual. The major proponent of systems thinking in organizations is Peter Senge, who views systems thinking as a vital component of a learning organization. Leadership evidence-based management senge'

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What we see…

Deming Institute

In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement. I also took advantage of an opportunity to meet Dr. Deming during his February 1990 lectures at Western Connecticut State University.

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An Ongoing Conversation with Ed Baker, Episode #1 – January 28, 2019

Deming Institute

The engineers studied only the defective tires to determine the causes of defects. Deming provided many examples of how failure to think from a whole system view leads to incomplete information and wrong conclusions. He described a situation he saw in a plant that manufactures tires.

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The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management

Harvard Business Review

Software company Rite-Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art "innovation engine" to unearth the organization's hidden genius. The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated. Entangled Talents: a 21st-century Social Learning System.