REPLY Getting a Good Problem Statement (SD6607)

[SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé]

Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi everybody

On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:10 AM, SDMAIL Jim Hines wrote:
>> You're right that defining a problem in terms of reference modes
>> pre-supposes that people have already decided to use SD.

I never wrote this in any of my e-mails.
I wrote that defining the problem statement using a CLD was already
supposing a solution, but not reference modes that show its dynamic.

May be I did not make myself understood, but any information, data about the
problem can and must be joined with the text explanation; whatever form it
has and
reference modes are exceptionally clear and do not presuppose any solution.

One can eventually add a causal loop diagram if the objective is to give
information only and does not already prepares the solution as it usually
does.

Alan Graham wrote:

<It turns out there's some more direct empirical support for non-speedy
<rates of change leading to evolutionary progress.
<Scott Rockart's work on magazine strategy demonstrates statistically
<that the more successful magazines didn't vary from their strategy
<(balance of content vs advertising, advertising rates, etc.) very much,
<whereas less successful magazines did.

Is the success coming from the non-speedy rates of change or the opposite?
It may be the opposite because successful magazines will just keep their
strategy and unsuccessful will try to change it.
But it can still be the non-speedy rate of change that is the cause of
success because slow changes may be easier to implement than big ones.
Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé Eurli Allocar.
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:30:29 +0200