- Recordo com saudade as interacções com Edward Hugh - 2009 - "Abençoada internet (parte III)"
- Um exemplo que uso em algumas acções de formação e baseado em 2 empresas com que trabalhei:
- E por fim um exemplo que me é muito querido:
"Thinking beyond stage one is one of the most important skills in economics — and in life."
O número deste mês da HBR inclui o artigo "Why You Need Systems Thinking Now" de Tima Bansal e Julian Birkinshaw (BTW, um dos livros que encomendei na semana passada foi de Julian Birkinshaw, Resurgent: How established organizations can fight back and thrive in an age of digital transformation):
"Systems thinking helps predict and solve problems in dynamic, interconnected environments.
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systems thinkers start by zooming out to understand the system that the innovation will be part of before they zoom in to solve the problem. That approach can lead to non-obvious answers."
Os autores propõem uma abordagem simplificada em 4 passos:
Our streamlined approach to systems thinking has four key steps.
1. Define your desired future state.
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Systems thinking, by contrast, focuses on the company's role in some desired future state-one that cannot be achieved without changes to the many different parts of the system.
In our workshops we start by helping a company articulate its North Star - what it wants the system to deliver - and what its own role will be in that new system. This helps the company frame discussions with the stakeholders that will also have roles in the future state and whose cooperation is needed for the system - and the company - to progress toward the North Star. It also keeps innovation activities within the system from going awry. Disparate groups of individuals (within the same organization or from different organizations) can build on one another's efforts so that innovation doesn't become a disconnected or conflicting set of activities.
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Once a company has identified its desired end state, it must then reach out to partners throughout the business system to win their buy - in to its new vision.
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In the course of their outreach, companies should expect resistance or, perhaps more commonly, indifference, as a company's desired end state may seem irrelevant to some stakeholders. That brings us to the next principle.
2. Frame the problem, reframe it, and repeat. Breakthrough thinkers and design thinkers invest time in identifying the right problem and then fixate on it until it is solved. Systems thinkers recognize that there is often no single way to define a complex problem and that they’ll need to reframe the definition iteratively to engage stakeholders who may experience a system’s dysfunctions differently. The trick is to find out how problems that your ecosystem partners are experiencing relate to the problem you are trying to solve.[Moi ici: Não podemos forçar as partes interessadas a fazerem parte do nosso modelo de negócio, mas podemos tentar ver o mundo através dos seus olhos egoístas (aqui sem qualquer carga pejorativa) e perceber como é que podemos criar uma relaçao ganhar-ganhar]
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Consider our experience advising the University of Guelph. Located in Ontario, one of Canada's agricultural heartlands, the university was seeking to attract more grants to carry out research in regenerative agriculture,
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As we embarked on the work, we realized that although farmers cared about climate change, the issue was not top of mind for them. We had difficulty engaging them because they had more urgent day-to-day challenges, such as planting, harvesting, and ensuring strong yields. We decided to reframe the problem from climate change to soil health. The reasoning was that soil health is more central to farmers' daily reality while still being deeply related to climate change. Healthy soil requires rich and diverse populations of microbes. Climate change causes soil to degrade, making it less effective at capturing carbon and at supporting biodiversity, among other harmful effects.
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3. Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services. Most innovators focus their energy on finding a product or service that will solve the problem they've identified.
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However, an innovation need not be a new product, service, or feature to solve a problem. Changes to the flows or relationships among actors can be just as effective, either by reducing friction to speed things up or adding friction to slow down some parts of the system.
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4. Nudge your way forward. A lot of the rhetoric on innovation focuses on immediate solutions: the moon shot, the silver bullet, the killer app. Such solutions, however, usually create knock-on problems. Systems thinking innovators seek to create an "ecology of actions" that steadily addresses problems within a system. [Moi ici: Recordo a conspiração de intervenções cirúrgicas em vez do começar da folha em branco depois de arrasar tudo.]
They look not for leaps but for nudges and experiments that reveal insights into the system and move it forward, until it reaches a tipping point and evolves naturally.
Of course, design thinking shares this emphasis on behavior and experimentation, but it retains nonetheless a focus on a specific solution. Systems-thinking experiments are about exposing interdependencies among partners in the ecosystem as opposed to testing whether a product or service improves the user experience."
Da próxima vez que tiverem de tomar uma decisão importante, façam um exercício simples: parem e perguntem-se ‘e depois? e depois?’. Talvez descubram que a resposta certa não está no que fazer já, mas no que isso desencadeia a seguir. Esse é o primeiro passo para pensar sistemicamente.
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