theWay/Situation
Gene Bellinger
Developing a strategy for dealing with a situation begins with a description of the situation and the preferred state for today, not in some distant future, and the perceived implications of not doing anything.
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- 9 months 8 hours ago
Creating the Future
Gene Bellinger
Enabling a Better Tomorrow is a systemic approach for developing a systemic strategy which may be employed to intervene in a current situation to effect the desired results while minimizing the likelihood of creating new problems in the process.
- 11 months 3 weeks ago
Network Magic/Implementation
Gene Bellinger
Once the strategy is developed the relationship model must evolve to represent that implementation appropriately sequenced.
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- 9 months 4 hours ago
Storytelling for Understanding (DIF)
Gene Bellinger
Thoughts on why storytelling is critical for enabling others to understand relationship models once they're developed. This was done for the Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) 2018.
- 10 months 3 weeks ago
Growth and Underinvestment with a Drifting Standard Archetype
Gene Bellinger
A Growth and Underinvestment with a Drifting Standard structure is simply an elaborated Growth and Underinvestment structure where the growth inhibitor induces a decline of the standard over time. The real nasty thing about this structure is that the growth inhibitor influence sets up a Reinforcing Loop which even further promotes a drifting of the standard over time.
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- 9 months 12 hours ago
theWay/Leverage Points
Gene Bellinger
There exists a well defined set of possible ways to alter an existing set of interactions. Each of these alterations will produce a particular effect depending on the relations the change is relative to. Identifying which are possible and which will migrate the interactions to produce the desired situation is the essence of the strategy.
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- 9 months 5 hours ago
theWay/Influence & Concern
Gene Bellinger
There are things we can influence and usually a broader array of things we are concerned about though can't influence. It's important to know the different otherwise we waste our energies trying to change things we have no influence over.
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- 9 months 7 hours ago
Problem Solving
Gene Bellinger
An introduction to what seems to be our typical approach to dealing with problems that arise unexpectedly when we're focused on dealing with other immediate issues.
- 9 months 17 hours ago
theWay/Responsibility
Gene Bellinger
When the relevant interactions are identified it's appropriate to identify which elements are the responsibility of which stakeholders, which elements are part of the addressable interactions and which elements are part of the environment.
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- 9 months 7 hours ago
Network Magic/Situation
Gene Bellinger
Network Magic is high tech start up growing rapidly and having difficulty developing resources to respond to customer demand.
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- 9 months 8 hours ago
theWay/Strategy
Gene Bellinger
Strategy is simply an idea as to how to move the current situation to the desired situation though it is seldom simple by any means. If the strategy is to be successful how numerous elements will be able support each other through the transition must be defined.
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- 9 months 5 hours ago
Receivables/Behavior
Gene Bellinger
Now that we have some context for the situation it's appropriate to begin to investigate, though possibly not where you might think. And the investigation is actually a bit hindered because management fired the accounts receivables department. What I'm really interested in is trends as to how things have evolved over time.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
theWay/Behavior Trends
Gene Bellinger
When we're trying to understand a situation it is often very helpful to have a sense of the historical trends of several dimensions relevant to the situation.
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- 9 months 8 hours ago
Network Magic/Strategy
Gene Bellinger
The strategy is actually a set of structural changes that have to be made to the relationships that cause the future to be different than the past.
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- 9 months 5 hours ago
Receivables/Situation
Gene Bellinger
The situation Big Box Distribution considers to be a problem is an average accounts receivable period which is considered unacceptable as it is costing them money.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
theWay/Ideal Alternative
Gene Bellinger
Imagine you could create anything you chose with the existing technology and resources. What would it be?
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- 9 months 8 hours ago
theWay/Stakeholders
Gene Bellinger
While understanding the interacting components responsible for the situation is important it is even more important to understand the stakeholders as they are the ones responsible for the interacting components being the way they are.
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- 9 months 7 hours ago
Receivables/Relationships
Gene Bellinger
Investigating the behavior of several variables over time has probably raised more questions than answers. As such now it's time to investigate what else might be influencing the trending of these variables.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
Receivables/Assumptions
Gene Bellinger
To this point the Situation, Behavior, Model, Stakeholder and Boundary aspects of this situation have been investigated. It is now appropriate to consider the assumptions that have been made to this point and ensure we are on a solid foundation before proceeding to the Leverage and Strategy aspects are considered.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
Receivables/Strategy
Gene Bellinger
It's now time for the stakeholders to take the investigation resulting from leverage and craft a strategy which will address the current situation in a manner that is beneficial to the whole system.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
Network Magic/Understanding
Gene Bellinger
Network Magic's rapid growth creates a growing demand for resources. And the more they satisfy their customers the more difficult the problem becomes.
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- 9 months 7 hours ago
Receivables/Stakeholders
Gene Bellinger
Before we can begin to sort out how to approach this situation it's appropriate to identify the relevant stakeholders and their motivations.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
Receivables/Boundaries
Gene Bellinger
In addition to identifying the relevant stakeholders it is essential to understand which elements of the situation are relevant to which stakeholders. Often this is quite apparent and at times it's not so obvious.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago
Receivables/Leverage
Gene Bellinger
It is now appropriate to investigate the possible leverage points for the current situation in an attempt to understand the most appropriate components for the strategy.
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- 9 months 3 hours ago