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Case in Point
Attributes of the
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Complex System Rules of Thumb...
NLP Solutions...
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Building Synergies...
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The Framework for a
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Case in Point
Canon
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"I shall proceed from the
simple to the complex. But in
war more than in any other subject we must begin
by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and
the whole must always be thought of together."
~
Carl Von Clausewitz
System Approach to Change
Systems thinking and system
→
change
are
essential to support individual and organizational development.
The success of a
→
project or an
→
organization
is influenced by a magnitude of factors...
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Growing Demand for Systems
Thinking
"End-to-end
business processes are dynamic systems, but today's business
professionals are generally not trained in general systems thinking. Too
often constrained to a perspective limited by ingrained business practices,
rigid scripts and structured input-output work, few professionals have a
wide-angle view of, or experience dealing with, end-to-end business
processes."2
Balancing the Five Basic
Elements of Nature
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Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements
The Five Basic Elements are Fire, Earth, Water,
Metal, and Wood. According to the ancient Chinese belief, those are the
basic elements of the universe and everything in our word is a compound of
the five elements. These elements are understood as different types of
energy in a state of constant interaction and flux with one another.
The most important of all is the
balance
of all five elements...
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Systems Thinking and Modern
Management
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Master
of
Business Synergies
The
system approach to management is based on general
system theory – the theory that says that
to understand fully the operation of an entity, the entity must be viewed as
a system. This requires understanding the interdependence of its parts...
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The Power of Your
Cross-Functional Excellence
If you build broad cross-functional expertise,
no idea will be wasted! Your
mind can accept only those ideas that have a frame of reference with
your existing knowledge. It rejects everything else.
If your knowledge is
functionally focused, you'll be open to new ideas related to your functional
expertise only and will miss all other learning and innovation
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If you develop a broad cross-functional expertise, no new
idea will be wasted. It will immediately connect with the existing knowledge
and will inspire you, energize you, and encourage your
entrepreneurial creativity.
The broader your net, the more fish you catch...
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Systems Thinking and
Cross-functional Management (CFM)
Cross-functional management (CFM)
manages business processes across the traditional boundaries of the
functional areas. In Total Quality Management
(TQM) and Kaizen, the
cross-functional goals of QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) are clearly defined
as superior to such line functions as planning, design, production and
sales. The positioning of cross-functional goal as superordinate ones
necessitates a new systems approach
to management,→
thinking
and
→
decision making...
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Apply 80/20
Analysis
80/20 Analysis examines the
relationships between two sets of comparable data and can be used to
change the relationships it describes. One its use is to discover the
key causes of the relationship, the 20% of inputs that lead to 80% of
outputs, and put your resources behind the best-performing efforts. The
second main use of 80/20 Analysis is to improve the effectiveness of the
underperfroming 80% of inputs that contribute only 20% of the output.
80/20 Analysis should be applied
carefully, in a systemic way, as opposite to linear thinking that may lead
to misunderstanding of the 80/20 Principle and its potential abuses. "Don't
be seduced into thinking that the variable that everyone else is looking
at... is what really matters. This is linear thinking. The most valuable
insight from 80/20 Analysis will always come from examining non-linear
relationships that others are neglecting."11...
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Application
Value Chain
Management and Value System Analysis
Your firm's
value chain
links to the value chains of upstream
suppliers and downstream buyers. The result is a larger stream of
activities known as the value system. The development of a
competitive advantage depends not only on your firm's specific value
chain, but also on the value system of which your firm is a part.
Making
breakthrough improvements in your value chain requires
out
of the box,
cross-functional, systems thinking. You have to see the
value creation
process across the entire flow of work, not just single points...
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