My name is Terry Priebe. I'm a founding partner of Decision Support
Associates, Inc. (DeSAb), a consulting and software development firm in
Wilmington, Delaware. I've had a long-held interest in how individuals
and groups think and learn. This led to involvement with "Learning
Organizations" as a corporate liaison to the early MIT Organizational
Learning Consortium.
I'm happy to have found this site and look forward to participating -
reflecting, learning and contributing - in the days ahead. Experience in
the military, the Dupont Company, and now consulting, along with community
relationships has heightened my desire to listen, understand and share
insights about how we, as members of various communities - work, civic and
family - can coexist and succeed.
DeSA is just now announcing the availability of its joint venture product,
the Business Learning Platformd (BLPd). How can this dynamic simulation
tool, unique in part due to the fact that it incorporates the fundamental
and dynamic relationships of businesses, help sustain LO's? My successful
results with a major global business suggest that a blend of learning
process and simulation technology is a powerful combination. Our belief
is that this combination - models and processes - will give leaders the
ability to much better handle the complexities faced by today's and
tomorrow's challenges.
People with strategic decision-making responsibility often require and
seek more substance about choices before them. We believe an intelligent
simulation system like the BLP provides a quick yet comprehensive dose of
reality and insight by means of its ability to simultaneously provide
views of the current and possible future states of a business. The
"creative tension" (from Robert Fritz's book, "The Path of Least
Resistance") that emerges from these views, then, motivates participants
to actions based on a more holistic picture of consequences. For example,
the BLP is able to help team members explain stories of successes and
surprises. Important issues of quality, cost and profit portray how well
a business responds to the needs of the marketplace.
>From my web page bio (www.de-sa.com) "?our accomplishments are frequently
limited by not being aware of what's possible with a synthesis of computer
technology and organizational learning philosophy. Rapid learning systems
using interactive computer models will become the norm in the near future.
Successful organizations will manage their business in a way that depends
on the continuous, synergistic nature of learning and doing. Computer
modeling will be the linking mechanism bridging time and resources to make
this possible." That was said two years ago. I'm more certain of it
today.
Again, I'll look forward to conversations with many of you in the future.
--Terry Priebe <insight@dca.net>
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