REPLY SD Impact on National Government policies (SD6171)

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Posted by  Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold at web.de>

Just a few short thoughts that I have posted in the SIG Business recently:

As being pretty new to the field of SD (since July 2006) I am following the 
question for myself why it sometimes takes so much effort and time to get a 
thing/idea going. And the SD-community is definitely pretty small over here 
in Europe -compared with the ones over in Northern America.

One way to overcome that is:

1. You must have a -(rather) big and measurable- problem to solve (concerning 
processes you can change personally in one way or the other)

2. There has to be a combination of SD and other fields that are closely or 
loosely related such as LEAN, SixSigma, Learning Organizations, Leadership, etc.

3. A functional network around you at all possible stages, starting from 
colleagues at the shop floor, managers, professors, friends, family, you 
name it;-) is a good way to spin off new ideas and thoughts.

4. Start discussions on obvious points and find out who amongst your network is 
able to function as an accelerator bringing these ahead and to practise (don't 
depend on yourself).

5. Be patient (!) and don't give up (I have waited for LEAN THINKING to arise 
around my business place for about 10 years now)

6. Grab possibilities in your personal surroundings to test System Thinking and 
System Dynamics (even though that is rather difficult for a real beginner as I 
am one;-() to keep the ball and thoughts running!

Looks like a recipe - but it's not. It is just an idea and I must admit I have 
the feeling this seems to work -slowly very slowly but steadily:-))

Looking forward to further discussion and new points to be made

Ralf


PS.: Seems to be that one idea leads to another one which is getting the 
progress going
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Ralf Lippold
Elsbethstraße 7
D-04155 Leipzig-Gohlis 
Posted by  Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold at web.de>
posting date  Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:18:24 +0100