"This book is very ackoffy!"
#RussellAckoff #Ackoff #systemsthinking #systemstheory #complexity #betacodex

This is an excellent description of Systems Thinking.
Definitely worth the 15 minutes, and Dr. Ackoff is funny, too!

https://youtu.be/OqEeIG8aPPk

This presentation is from a 1994 event hosted by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns to capture the Learning and Legacy of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Russ knew Dr. Deming and speaks here about the difference between "continuous improvement" and "discontinuous improvement" as seen through the lens of systems thinking.

#Systems #Quality #Deming #Ackoff

Are you transforming #IT to be #agile? Think twice before optimizing individual teams/departments/divisions.
“An organisation is a system whose major deficiencies arise from the ways, its parts interact, not from their actions taken separately. It is possible & even very likely that improvement of the performance of each part of an organisation considered separately, will result in a deterioration of the performance of the organisation as a whole.”
Russel #Ackoff knew it 30 years ago! #BetaCodex

“We are committed to a market #economy at the macro level and to a nonmarket, centrally planned, hierarchically managed micro economy within most corporations and other types of organizations in our society.
Our macro and micro economies are not consistent.“ - Russell #Ackoff

This inconsistency makes the difference between #management & #selforganization. Between navel-gazing & market orientation. #Agile frameworks don't.

Transform entire organizations. Now. #BetaCodex

From now on I'm calling it Acorn Cause. #reliability #Ackoff #sre

“All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter! If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better!” ~ Russell #Ackoff