Deming and Senge...the same? LO14982

Michael Gort (gort@mail.com)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:23:26 -0400

Replying to LO14947 --

Donald Kerr addresses the differences between Deming and Senge and the DEN
list and the LO list:

The DEN emphasizes mechanistic reductionism, which appeals to the engineer
in me. The LO emphasizes holistic expansion, which appeals to the learner,
philosopher and spiritual being in me. Senge and the LO list are filling
in the artifical gap between science and spirituality that I long for.
Both are equally pragmatic, but in different ways. Both get to the heart
of what it means to be human.

Don -

Several years ago, Daniel Kim wrote an article in The Systems Thinker that
proposed combining the Shewart Cycle with a learning cycle, synthesizing a
new approach that he called Systemic Quality Management. Essentially,
while working on improving the doing by following the Plan, Do, Check, Act
cycle, he proposed building shared understanding with a double-loop
learning cycle of Gathering Data, Synthesis and Analysis, Conceptual
Insights, Policy Change Recommendations, Policy Implementation.

Thanks

Mike.....

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