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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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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

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

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

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

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

Escalation Archetype (Cite: Gene Bellinger)

Jake Jacobson

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

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

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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The goal seeking structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the growth structure. See also Archetypes.

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Causal Loop - Security

Stockinger Rene

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

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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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

wayne hugo

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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Receivables/Assumptions

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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Receivables/Strategy

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 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

The Accidental Adversaries structure represents a situation where two interacting entities which should produce growth unwittingly limit the growth of each other because of their actions to promote their own growth.

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Clone of Accidental Adversaries Archetype

wayne hugo

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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theWay/Strategy

Gene Bellinger

The limits to results structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state though more often than not the action is limited by some constraint. See also Archetypes.

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Clone of Limits to Action Archetype - VINCOLO. Limiti all'archetipo di azione

Yuto OGUCHI

A Tragedy of the Commons situation exists whenever two or more activities, each, which in order to produce results, rely on a shared limited resource. Results for these activities continue to develop as long as their use of the limited resource doesn't exceed the resource limit. Once this limit is reached the results produced by each activity are limited to the level at which the resource is replenished. See also Archetypes.

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Clone of Tragedy of the Commons Archetype

Samson Tan

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