Richard Karash writes:
> In my work, I find it helpful to "structural observations" as those which
> make a cause and effect linkage.
...
> I believe that making structural observations (and hypotheses) is at the
> heart of systems thinking.
> I published an article on "How to Find Structure" in _The Systems
> Thinker_, published by Pegasus Communications. You can obtain reprints
> from them, or it's on the web at
> http://world.std.com/~rkarash/structure/
I liked the article, particularly the "iceberg diagram". The cause-effect
diagram reminded me of several types of diagram that are used in Quality
organizations, such as fishbone (cause&effect) diagrams, interrelationship
diagrams, force field analysis charts, etc. Also, of course, the
simplified system dynamics diagrams that Senge uses. Perhaps it would be
useful to develop a suite of diagramming tools for organizational
learning.
Don Dwiggins "All models are false,
SEI Information Technology but some are useful"
ddwiggins@sei-it.com -- George Box, "Statistics for Experiments"
--dwig@MONTEREY.std.com (Don Dwiggins)
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>