Taking a systems perspective is no easy feat. It involves not only the senior management – everyone in the organization needs to understand the business goals and what processes to implement to achieve them. It is essential to develop the practice of seeing the system as a whole and taking a...
Once you develop procedures and work instructions, it is important to implement them into the company’s systems. This can include training existing or new employees on the new processes and ensuring that all relevant departments know the changes. Implementing systems and processes also involves ensur...
Systems thinking therefore allows us to make informed choices. Systems thinking is also valuable for telling compelling stories that describe how a system works. For example, the practice of drawing causal loop diagrams forces a team to develop shared pictures, or stories, of a situation. The ...
Against this backdrop, the senior manager used a systems thinking approach to brainstorm the factors influencing the dynamics of the world oil and gas industry. From this process the group was able to develop a set of five distinctly different plausible futures that might develop. ...
Charity defines sociotechnical systems as the complex interactions and interweaving of humans, the software we build, and the software’s impact on us. This is a much better way of thinking about software, because coding is never enough. You also have to consider the people writing it. Here...
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to choose leaders who represent their views. But they cannot do this effectively without independent thought and a critical mind. Our formal education systems, then, are charged with the responsibility to encourage critical thinking among all students, not only for their own personal growth, but ...
What does McKinsey’s inclusion assessment model look like in action? This blog post shares how one leading private equity firm used hard data to develop an actionable roadmap for its ongoing DE&I journey. For additional resources, please see the “Diversity, equity, ...
Just as muscles need food and exercise to grow strong, so the brain needs the right nutrients and activity to develop. Kids today are much less likely to be malnourished than they were in past decades, and more likely to go to school. Yet there is no room for complacency. This week we...
Now, it’s time to flesh out your sections. Under each major heading, add the key points, examples, facts, or arguments that support and develop your central idea. What this looks like depends on the type of writing: Persuasive or academic writing:Research citations, expert quotes, statistic...