REPLY Future Development Directions (SD6273)

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Posted by  "Bill Braun" <bbraun at hlthsys.com>

Richard Stevenson writes, "It is not our role, as  (hopefully independent)
advisors, to assume the morality of business  leaders.  it's our job to
help them make better decisions - "

The point is well taken, and I hope it does not preclude us from making
moral judgments (distinct from being morally judgmental, that is, assuming
to know the intent or motives of the actors). There are senior managers
who routinely operate in their own self-interest; that observation can be
made without impugning them personally.

Inclusive of that, if, as Richard points out, the key players are "not
engaged, however distantly, in the analytical process", I would want to
know, in what are they engaged?

If they are not engaged in the rational, what other lines of thinking
remain, and if SD is the focal point, where is the point of entry for a
conversation on the merits of the data and a systemic view of the system?

Bill Braun
Posted by  "Bill Braun" <bbraun at hlthsys.com>
posting date  Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:57:35 -0500 (EST)