• Cause and Effect for Action

Every human thought and action is either a cause or an effect.

This seminar introduces participants to Cause and Effect logic, the fundamental importance of understanding the implications of our actions and those of others, and the responsibility this awareness brings.

• Understanding and Managing your Organization as a System: the Decalogue

The foundational work of W. Edwards Deming has taught us that organizations are systems, and that Quality is not only a continuous process, but a mindset.

Applying Deming’s philosophy is a challenging task. The rewards, however, are enormous, transforming the work of an organization into a profitable and meaningful human experience.

The logical tools of the Theory of Constraints act as powerful channels for implementing Deming’s knowledge. Over the last 15 years, the Decalogue has combined Deming’s Philosophy with the Theory of Constraints to radically improve many organizations. In this seminar we illustrate how this can be done.

• The Organization as a Network of Projects

All organizations are made up of activities that are either recurrent or not. Recurrent and non-recurrent activities in an organization can be seen as “projects”.

Whether we seek to improve the speed at which we manufacture products, install new equipment, organize shipments or file quarterly closing, we need the coordinated efforts of many different competencies.

Engineers, accountants, scientists, subject matter experts, should not be considered members of a “company function”. Rather, they should be seen as valuable competencies that can be deployed for the goal of the whole company. These resources, ALL the resources, should be available for whatever “project” the company needs to accomplish.

What we are saying is that any company should be seen as a network of projects with the global goal of maximizing the Throughput of the company. How do we design such a systemic network?

• How Organizations Can Think Themselves Smarter

Why is it that decision makers fail to understand the long-term, systemic implications of their actions in virtually every sector of society?

With a systemic use of the intellect we can foster an improved ability of the mind to connect three faculties of the intellect: intuition (the birth of an idea), understanding (development and analysis) and knowledge (application/execution).

We are talking about a more evolved form of human intelligence that allows intelligent, thoroughly thought-through decisions to be manifested through intelligent action. There is no precise term for this evolved intelligence in English, but it is perfectly described by the Hebrew word ‘sechel’.

By integrating the Scientific Method with this systemic use of the intellect we will achieve a greater level of sechel, which is precisely what the world today needs so desperately. This sechel will enable a re-foundation of economics and management.