Systems Thinking

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• Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Shingo Prize winner Michael Balle

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine , a bestselling business novel of a Lean Turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of a Lean Transformation both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...
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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
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• Analogues of service

  
  The Great E-mancipator — Authority: 116
  The current edition of Government Computing magazine contains an interview with Kevin Carey of ATcare and chair of HumanITy  and the RNIB . The interview is a fascinating insight into what accessibility should be about by someone with a disability and experience of exclusion having become blind in early ...
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• Systems Thinking on the Gross National Product

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 121
  Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968,  said: Robert F. Kennedy "Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air ...
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• Missed Opportunities to Rescue Dugard Linked to Poor Employee Screening or Poor Pay?

  
  Mission Minded Management — Authority: 108
  According to the San Francisco Chronicle , “State parole agents fell down on the job again and again during the 10 years they supervised sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido, failing to check out clues that could have led to alleged kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard.”  [emphasis mine] Parole Agent Work is Level ...
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• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
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• Agile Tour 2009 retrospective

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 112
  Agile Tour Besançon and Lille 2009 This year, I participated in two stops of the Agile Tour in France: Besançon and Lille . In Besançon I presented the “ Résoudre les Conflits sans Compromis “. In Lille I presented the “ A l’aide! Mon processus m’étrangle “. The participants of the Conflict ...
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• Russell L. Ackoff: 1919 -2009

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 413
  We lost another of the absolutely best minds in management history, this week. Somehow, many managers, do not know of Russell Ackoff’s ideas. I find that amazing. Dr. Ackoff is one of two management thinkers that any manager, that is serious about improving management results in their organization, must study ...
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• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Agile Software Development Series): Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

  
  Make Money Myself — Authority: 139
  Editorial Reviews Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every ...
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• Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and wondered why there was no Part II. While we have been playing “doctor,” our patient has been getting worse. Previously in Part I, we learned that the patient ...
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• A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress. At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve ...
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• Worker Retention at Zappos

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 413
  Tony Hsieh, chief executive of Zappos, spoke at a recent y-combinator event (two great organizations we have mentioned before). Facebook and Zappos’s Different Views on Worker Retention “We actually want our employees stay with the company for a long time, for 10 years, maybe their entire life.” … “We ...
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• Resolve a Conflict in 6 easy and 1 difficult step

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 112
  Tried Out When presenters propose sessions for XP Days Benelux , we always recommend they try out their session, as many times as possible. We should all know the power of iteration and feedback. You need some time to get it right. If you’re slow like me, you might need years to get it right. The first tryout ...
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• KedgeForward: Who We Are & What We Do

  
  KedgeForward! — Authority: 103
  Hello all! After much refinement (and excellent input from colleagues), we have distilled KedgeForward’s passions and protocol’s to their essence to show you – friends, colleagues, and potential clients. We look forward to partnering with you for competitive advantage, building creative processes, increasing ...
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• ObamaCare – another fix-that-backfires

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Systems thinkers frequently use the phrase fix-that-backfires. It means a solution to a problem that makes the problem worse. ObamaCare is a perfect example. At the start of his stay in the White House, President Obama identified three critical problems in U.S. healthcare. 1) Excessive cost and healthcare’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does This Bureaucracy Make Me Look Fat?

  
  carpe factum — Authority: 110
  I cant do it without authorization. Im sorry.  We have to wait for approval. Youll need five signatures to get that moving forward. My boss wont let me. AAARRRG.  Its called a DECISION! How do you sacrifice a virgin? Trouble getting things moving in your organization?  The Wall Street Journal published an ...
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• The Path of Least Resistance for Managers by Robert Fritz

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 471
  Notes from the book The Path of Least Resistance for Managers by Robert Fritz, published 1999 Designing Organizations to Succeed The difference between simplicity that trivializes and simplicity that illuminates defines genius. The first insight is that energy moves along the path of least resistance. The ...
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• Resolve Conflicts without Compromise at XP Days Benelux

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 112
  I present the “ Resolve Conflicts without compromise ” with Jef Cumps at the XP Days Benelux conference on November 24th. Bring a conflict to the session and come out of the session with several ideas to turn this conflict into a win-win situation. If you don’t have any conflicts, you can learn how to help ...
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• Bottleneck Game at Agile Tour Lille 2009

  
  Thinking for a Change — Authority: 112
  I present the Bottleneck Game at Agile Tour Lille on October 30th 2009. Come and play to discover the Theory of Constraints and the “Five Focusing Steps” to really improve processes. Experience how and why Agile, Lean and Real Options work.
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