Replying to LO29675 --
Dear Andrew and fellow Orglearners,
Thank you for your post. If you apply the Pareto rule to the 20%, I wonder
if 80% of the costs is attributed to petrol wastage, outdated road
management policies and road systems as well as inefficient vehicle
systems?
If you compare the traffic flow from the amasci Website to that of an
organization, the left hand flow of traffic is quite slow and does not
leave much room for margin for error. Knowledge gets banked up and a slow
flow of knowledge could lead to inefficient management practices. Whereas
the right lane "of Knowledge flow" is moving along quite well and more
likely knowledge is being captured and used to improve organizational
capacities through learning technologies.
I recall reading Rick's article:
"PS I think our host, Rick once used the process of 'traffic flow' to
illuminate system dynamics...is it still in your personal archive Rick?"
some time ago and I found it helpful to identify knowledge system flows
within an organization.
At wrote:
"But in the old days of a sailing ship each mate knew that what he did,
was crucial to the success of the voyage. The more the crew acted like
passengers, the greater the chance for ship-wreck."
If the ship did sink, the "treasure map" would be some else's for the
taking (salvage crews). Just like a modern organization. If an
organization goes off course because all the crew (staff) are acting like
passengers, it may be be prone to financial disaster which could lead to
its eventual sinking (liquidation). Yet could another organization salvage
the "treasure map" or would a new hierarchy of needs be installed by the
incoming management?
I now would like to come back to the merging traffic as shown on the
amasci site. I was wondering if both Andrew and At were eluding to the
fact that organizational capacity can be improved by a steady knowledge
flow within an organization and not a stop start affair as many failed
companies have demonstrated in the past?
Thank you and kind regards,
Glebe Stcherbina
Sydney Australia
Kind
ACampnona@aol.com wrote:
> 20% if the US GDP is consumed by transporation costs!
>
> http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/seatraf.html
>
> and for fast cross referencing ;-)
>
> "Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with
> scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These
> assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most
> important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room
> temperature."
[..snip by your host..]
--Glebe Stcherbina <gstc3416@mail.usyd.edu.au>
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