Tobias Fors – Systems Thinking For The Rest Of Us - Let's Test

19 Pages·2013·3.81 MB·English

SYSTEMS THINKING
FOR THE REST OF US
@TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
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With inspiration from Ackoff,
Weinberg, Checkland
energy
Energy,
enthusiasm,
training and
peptalks
’
It kind of
’
petered out
time
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR THE REST OF US @TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
Let’s Doodle
The problem
…
of
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR THE REST OF US @TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
’
Let’s Doodle
Let’s call this ”Org doodling
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Other people: involved, affecting and/or affected by the situation
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Tools, platforms and other resources that are involved
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Visualize relations, interactions, flow of information
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Visualize problems and pains
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Visualize strengths and joys
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Add what’s missing to complete the picture
‣ (It may be the thing you always forget to include when you think about this situation)
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Discuss with your partner (5 mins]
To what degree do the people in your
picture agree on what the problem is?
What can you say about what’s
causing the problem, and what’s
causing it to stick?
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR THE REST OF US @TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR THE REST OF US @TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
SYSTEMS THINKING FOR THE REST OF US @TOFO | CITERUS.SE | TOBIASFORS.SE
I promised to
create a testing
’
dashboard, but it s
gonna have to
wait
Unseen
structures
Strange
energi
behavior
tid
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Tight deadline
Prio number
one now, is to = no slack
work on the
backlog.
Visible
structures
Understood
behavior
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Systems
Thinking about
A conscious way thinking
structures
of thinking
about the
structures
affecting us
Visible
structures
Understood
behavior
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