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On Defining Systems (1995)

https://www.socialsciencethatactuallyworks.com/_files/ugd/d59011_e2ee5a9d2865467d8e75f52d179b3459.pdf

"System: A set of entities that are interdependent with respect to the principle governing the set i.e. the system principle. The system principle is not sui generis to the set but defines a special relation of interdependence between the set and its environment." -- #FredEmery

#api360 #systems #Ackoff

Watch the video for much more but the basic idea of #idealized_design is to create a new design for a product, service or the organization based on existing feasibility but without the constraints of the existing setup. Then you can use that ideal to figure out a plan to move from the existing state to that idealized design. Russell #Ackoff co-authored a good book on the topic: Idealized Design...

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2016/10/19/bell-labs-designing-a-new-phone-system-using-idealized-design/

#management #Innovation #systems_thinking

"explore the method to effectively learn from decisions the organization makes. The idea seem simple but they are powerful.

Preparing a record of every decision of any significance, ones that involve doing something or (of particular importance) ones that involve not doing something.
...
The decision should be monitored to determine whether the expectations are being met..."

Russell #Ackoff

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/02/06/learning-systems-and-improvement/

#management #critical_thinking #systems_thinking #decisions

"explore the method to effectively learn from decisions the organization makes. The idea seem simple but they are powerful.

Preparing a record of every decision of any significance, ones that involve doing something or (of particular importance) ones that involve not doing something.
...
The decision should be monitored to determine whether the expectations are being met..."

Russell #Ackoff

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/02/06/learning-systems-and-improvement/

#management #critical_thinking #systems_thinking #decisions

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

“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

#betacodex #change #transformation #newwork #futureofleadership #workthesystem

“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 organisations in our society.
Our macro and micro economies are not consistent.”
- Russel #Ackoff

Transform entire organisations. Now.
#BetaCodex #cellstructuredesign

“A group of unwilling prisoners or slaves can be organized and forced to do something that they do not want to do, but they do not constitute an organization. An #organization consists of elements that have and can exercise their own wills.” Russel #Ackoff
#management #leadership #BetaCodex #decentralization #democracy

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