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Mar 07 2018

Managing Risk and Fear

Managing Risk and Fear

No one can deny that risk exists. It’s the potential to lose something of value. It would be irresponsible to ignore it. The question becomes, what kind of decisional practice and behaviors are operationally and economically effective when it comes to risk in organizations? Operating from fear An article in Mashable about Google+ is a […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: Decision making, risk management, systemic management, Thinking Process Tools

Aug 17 2017

Thinking and Reasoning for Leadership Are Urgently Needed and Can Be Learned

Thinking and Reasoning for Leadership Are Urgently Needed and Can Be Learned

Are we really capable of thinking and reasoning? Even a superficial glance at newspaper articles seem to suggest that we are not exercising these capacities. Joined up thinking is scarce. There is a crisis of leadership as one catastrophic decision after another shapes the lives of workers and citizens. The world is complex Our reality has […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, decalogue, leadership, mindset, sant fe institute, systemic management

Aug 04 2017

Nothing Is the Same: How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Market

Nothing Is the Same: How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Market

This month marks ten years since the start of the 2007 financial crisis. Our economic models have failed us. Anyone who has lived with the aftermath of that crisis knows that. Many have lost their jobs, or lost their investments and even their future prospects. Many who expected to have a smooth career path are getting […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: financial crisis, Goldratt, sustainability, systemic management, theory of constraints, theory of profound knowledge, Thinking Process Tools, W. Edwards Deming

Aug 01 2017

How a CIO Can Learn to Drive Real Business Results

How a CIO Can Learn to Drive Real Business Results

Ideally, the role of the CIO should be to manage the Quality of how humans and technology interact to produce real business results. In reality, CIOs today find themselves constrained in what they can achieve operationally. On  the one hand, they need to be able to improve business performance. This leads them to want to […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: business results, CIO, conflict, processes, project management, silos, systemic management

May 30 2017

Beyond the Comfort Zone for Organizations

Beyond the Comfort Zone for Organizations

The problem with comfort zones is that we stick with them even when they are no longer fit for purpose. We prefer to squeeze ourselves into an awkward space as long as it’s familiar, rather than expanding into the unknown. Comfort zones prevent us from doing anything that goes beyond what we already know. In […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: comfort zone, Decalogue methodology, mental models, organizations, systemic management, theory of constraints, W. Edwards Deming

Nov 14 2016

Performance Optimization and Interdependencies: When 1+1= More Than 2

Performance Optimization and Interdependencies: When 1+1= More Than 2

What happens when more than one person or more than one thing work together in the same direction? Is the result just the simple sum of their efforts? The answer to this question is yes, but ONLY when the elements involved are independent of each other. In the theory of systems, the global “performance” of any […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Uncategorized · Tagged: performance optimization, systemic management, Systems Thinking

Jun 01 2016

How CIOs Can Break Free of the Silo Prison with Systemic Management

How CIOs Can Break Free of the Silo Prison with Systemic Management

What if there were a way to break free of the silo prison? What if we could build an organization where the best qualified could fully contribute and unleash their potential, where there was engagement, transparency, efficient communication and sharing of information? Well, there is. And CIOs are perfectly poised to change the music and spearhead the transformation.  […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: buffer management, CIO, digital transformation, information technology, leadership, network of projects, systemic management, theory of constraints

Oct 13 2015

Four Fundamental Strands of Knowledge for Managers and Leaders

Four Fundamental Strands of Knowledge for Managers and Leaders

Although the majority of organizations are divided up into functions and silos (and suffer every day from the ill-effects of that) they are in fact one system. They simply do not see it because of an out of date approach to management based on vertical hierarchy and local optima. What do we mean when we […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, interdependencies, organization, systemic management, theory of profound knowledge, transformation, variation

Aug 05 2014

Freeing Yourself from Limiting Beliefs

Freeing Yourself from Limiting Beliefs

We’re getting ready to launch our new eBook ‘The Human Constraint’, a business novel for the New Economy. We’re excited to share a snippet of the accompanying online learning centre that accompanies each chapter of the novel. This section deals with limiting beliefs and a tool to overcome them.  Assumptions and limiting beliefs In a chapter […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: assumptions, change, complexity, conflict, conflict cloud, constraint, intelligence, mental models, systemic management, theory of constraints

Jul 17 2014

Crash, Bang, New Economics (and How We Can Build It)

Crash, Bang, New Economics (and How We Can Build It)

Our economic models have failed us. Anyone who has lived with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis knows that. Many have lost their jobs, or lost their investments and even their future prospects. Many who expected to have a smooth career path are getting by from contract to contract, or may even be chronically unemployed. The […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: cooperation, Deming, new economics, new economy, Quality, sustainability, systemic management, systemic thinking, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools, web of life, win-win

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