Topic: Scenario Planning
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Creating Causal Theories
Peasants in southwest France have been selling smelly but delicious black truffles to restaurants for more than $600 a kilo (2.2 lb). Not surprisingly,…
Systems Thinking: What, Why, When, Where, and How?
If you’re reading The Systems Thinker®, you probably have at least a general sense of the benefits of applying systems thinking in the work-place.
Modeling “Soft” Variables
When encountering system dynamics modeling for the first time, sharp-minded managers often ask, “How can you have any confidence in your model if you…
Hexagons: From Ideas to Variables
System thinking tools, such as causal loop diagrams, foster high-quality thinking, communication, and decision-making in teams. But plunging into the realm of complex, dynamic…
Leanness
Corporations today face many pressures to become “lean.” Unfortunately, most people also attach “mean” to lean, which can lead us to confuse leanness with…
From Key Success Factors to Key Success Loops
Many of us are familiar with the following drill: Corporate pushes a new program, and each department must come up with its own plans…
The “Living” Company: Extending the Corporate Lifeline
In the 1970s, diversification was the rage. But by the early 1980s, serious doubts had surfaced in the Shell Group about the wisdom of…
Managing Organizational Learning Cycles
Imagine an organization in which all the records disintegrated overnight. Suddenly, there are no more reports, no computer files, no employee records, no operating manuals,…
Stamped Out: Are Postage Costs Getting out of Control?
When Marvin T. Runyon took over the US Postal Service in 1992… He announced plans to slash layers of management and an early retirement…
Building Organizational Learning Infrastructures
The systems and structures that have served our organizations well throughout the Machine Age are no longer adequate to meet the demands of the…