QUERY Factors related to success of SD
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:06 am
Posted by Jack Harich <jack@thwink.org>
Jim Thompson wrote on Feb 11, 2007:
""My thesis research reviews several
consulting engagements in which SD was the prominent problem-solving
methodology. However, the causes and solutions suggested by SD did not
make immediate sense to the persons charged with solving the problem.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In some
engagements this observation was respected by making ever more detailed
SD models, for the most part producing disappointment and
disillusionment with the methodology. In those engagements in which the
SD-generated insight was supported by other analytics, organizational
satisfaction with results and the likelihood of implementing an
SD-generated solution was much higher.""
This appears to be a rich source of the factors affecting the
success/failure of SD, as applied to practical, pressing problems. Is
this or related research available? How current and relevant is it?
This sort of thing may be particularly pertinent as the list moves into
a long, serious effort on how to develop ""a vision and strategy for the
next 50 years,"" as Jim Lyneis mentions in his recent message to SD
Society members.
Jack Harich
Posted by Jack Harich <jack@thwink.org>
posting date Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:55:27 -0400
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Jim Thompson wrote on Feb 11, 2007:
""My thesis research reviews several
consulting engagements in which SD was the prominent problem-solving
methodology. However, the causes and solutions suggested by SD did not
make immediate sense to the persons charged with solving the problem.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In some
engagements this observation was respected by making ever more detailed
SD models, for the most part producing disappointment and
disillusionment with the methodology. In those engagements in which the
SD-generated insight was supported by other analytics, organizational
satisfaction with results and the likelihood of implementing an
SD-generated solution was much higher.""
This appears to be a rich source of the factors affecting the
success/failure of SD, as applied to practical, pressing problems. Is
this or related research available? How current and relevant is it?
This sort of thing may be particularly pertinent as the list moves into
a long, serious effort on how to develop ""a vision and strategy for the
next 50 years,"" as Jim Lyneis mentions in his recent message to SD
Society members.
Jack Harich
Posted by Jack Harich <jack@thwink.org>
posting date Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:55:27 -0400
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