Systematics in Systems Thinking LO25470

From: John Zavacki (jzavacki@greenapple.com)
Date: 10/16/00


Replying to LO25456 --

At writes a long and learned treatise on systematics and systems. I look
at it this way:

Very often, the systematic approach tends towards understanding the
objects in a system. Deming made the point that this is not the system.
What is the system is the relationships among those objects.

The simplest systematic tool is the flow chart. When raised to its next
level of complexity, the deployment flow chart, it begins to answer
questions of accountability, responsibility, consultation, and
information. If well done, it can point towards recursion, entropy, and
other behaviors of systems. The key is practice within dialogue.

John F. Zavacki
jzavacki@greenapple.com <mailto:jzavacki@greenapple.com>
systhinc@msn.com <mailto:systhinc@msn.com>

  "People are entitled to joy in their work and a sense of ownership."
W. Edwards Deming

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