REPLY SD Impact on National Government Policies (SD6160)

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Posted by  Fabian Fabian <f_fabian at yahoo.com>

Hi All,
   
  More or less in 1999, I had the chance to participate in a group meeting 
  with Jamshid Garajedaghi, who brought this phrase to the table:
   
  "You don't sell Systems Thinking, you USE Systems Thinking"
   
  Thus the need of embedding "user friendly" Systems Thinking in our value 
  propositions.
   
  As a recent anecdote, I had the chance of explaining a causal loop diagram 
  built around a client issue, to a port engineer without any previous 
  knowledge of ST, and his feedback was:  
   
  "If only I received reports like this instead of 700 page reports..."
   
  As in any difusion process, we should keep making "baby steps"... 
  Perseverance and some luck in identifying "champions" or "sneezers" or 
  "gatekeepers", will make the spread of ST/SD tools and language more 
  intense.
   
  Of course we should go on with all ST/SD education initiatives, at all 
  levels...
   
  Be well...
   
  Fabian Szulanski
Posted by  Fabian Fabian <f_fabian at yahoo.com>
posting date  Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:59:15 -0800 (PST)