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When endeavoring to develop an understanding of the nature of something it is generally useful to create a model of some type to aid in surfacing that understanding.

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The Essence of And?

Gene Bellinger

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Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

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theWay/Assumptions

Gene Bellinger

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This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship models. Links have default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.

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Insight Maker Template

Gene Bellinger

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Understanding relationships is the foundation of effective problem solving. Though relations exists on multiple levels.

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theWay/Understanding

Gene Bellinger

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Shifting the Burden Archetype (Cite: Gene Bellinger)

Jake Jacobson

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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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Receivables/Situation

Gene Bellinger

Eroding Goals shares a basic similarity with Shifting the Burden - the dynamic tension between a symptomatic solution and a fundamental one. In the case of Eroding Goals, managers are faced with performance that fails to meet a stated goal.

Eroding Goals System Archetype

Jake Jacobson

Escalation Archetype (Cite: Gene Bellinger)

Jake Jacobson

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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Receivables/Behaviour

Gene Bellinger

Imagine you could create anything you chose with the existing technology and resources. What would it be?

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theWay/Ideal Alternative

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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theWay/Stakeholders

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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Network Magic/Understanding

Gene Bellinger

Thoughts on why it's not possible to sell systems thinking, or anything else to a person or an organization.

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Postscript

Gene Bellinger

An escalation structure results from two or more competing entities with the competition taking them to somewhere none of them want to be. See also Archetypes.

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Escalation Archetype

Stockinger Rene

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth.

Limits to Growth Archetype (Cite: Gene Bellinger)

Jake Jacobson

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Fixes that Fail Archetype (Cite: Gene Bellinger)

Jake Jacobson

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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theWay/Leverage Points

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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theWay/Situation

Gene Bellinger

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Network Magic is high tech start up growing rapidly and having difficulty developing resources to respond to customer demand.

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Network Magic/Situation

Gene Bellinger

A shifting the burden structure occurs when there are different ways to address a situation. With one approach being easier, faster, and requiring fewer resources, which do you think gets pursued? The problem is that taking the easier path ensures one will have to take the easier path repeatedly, and makes it harder to pursue the long-term better solution.

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Clone of Shifting the Burden Archetype

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It's relatively well understood that you can't be all things to all people. Somewhere one has to make choices. An Attractiveness Principle Systems Archetype is essentially a Limits to Growth Systems Archetype with multiple limits, all of which can not be addressed equally.

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Clone of Attractiveness Principle Archetype

TrishaEngelbrecht

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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Receivables/Relationships

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 differerence otherwise we waste our energies trying to change things we have no influence over.

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theWay/Influence & Concern

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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And? Understanding Relationships & Their Implications.

Receivables/Strategy

Gene Bellinger

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