Joey Chan wrote:
>Everybody can have his/her view. However, Ray is my partner, and he >just
>doesn't buy the idea of ST. and as a matter of fact, he hasn't read any
>book about ST seriously, and once I introduce the archetypes and the
>causal loop diagram to him, he think it is impractical and trivial. And I
>really frustrated by my inability to enroll him to study the essence of
>ST. So, I need some advice for me to enroll him again.
Dear Joey,
my comment to your "case" as you call it, does not realy relate to ST, but
to the more general question behind, how to introduce a new idea in an
environment that does not see a need for this idea.
Ray may be your partner, but he is not your customer. So the best way to
enroll him ST again is a case study with a customer, whom you helped with
ST, who is satisfied with your help and who could proof that your help
worked. Who even would recommend others to you because of your ability to
look at things differently - in a practical and helpful way.
As long as you are not able to create such a successful "prototyp", your
knowledge is more theory than pragmatic und thus Ray is right. What Ray
expressed (as I see it) was: "I don't see how I could make ST work in
practice, and I am not interessted in putting time into it."
Hope this helpes, good luck!
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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