REPLY Policy paradox and SD (SD6685)

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Posted by  "nickols at att.net" <nickols at att.net>

FWIW, I see SD practitioners as extremely capable when it comes to modeling 
a system and identifying changes that would lead to improved performance.  
It also seems to me that SD practitioners are no better (nor worse) than 
many other professional practitioners in the workplace when it comes to 
implementation.  Implementation, in my view, has more to do with what is 
generally known as "change management" than it does SD and change management 
has to do with people and politics and stakes and stakeholders and heat vs 
light and emotions more so than analytical reason.

Just out of curiosity, where, how and when does an SD practitioner acquire 
the knowledge, skills, insight, wisdom and competencies associated with 
effective implementation or change management?  I ask because I rarely hear 
the implementation side of things discussed; instead, focus is almost always 
on models and modeling.

Perhaps a well rounded SD practitioner should be one part modeler and one 
part interventionist.

Regards,

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Fred Nickols
Toolmaker to Knowledge Workers
Posted by  "nickols at att.net" <nickols at att.net>
posting date  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:20:20 +0000