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A 14 page paper assessing a large project in terms of systems thinking; stakeholder interests; resource constraints; technology effects; ethics; and corporate responsibility. The project discussed is an IT-based business process change project for HHH, a home health and hospice agency. Bibliography lists 11 sources from 2002-2006.
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introduction to Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers (2005) offer the illustration of a human hand as an example of unrecognized change
and the dangers of not thinking on a level of "wholes" but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who
would hold up his hand to ask his audience to identify it, after which he explained that "the cells that made up that hand were continually dying and regenerating themselves.
What seems tangible is continually changing: in fact, a hand is completely re-created within a year or so" (Senge, et al., 2005; p. 6). The authors point is that
when we look at any living system - whether biological, physical or organizational - "as a static thing, we are mistaken" (Senge, et al., 2005; p. 6). 1. Systems Thinking
1.a. Evaluate systems thinking and the application of systems logic as essential considerations in managerial decision making. Christensen and Bickhard (2002) quote Aristotle, again
using the human hand as a point of contemplation: "The hand separated from the body is not a true hand" (Aristotle quoted in Christensen and Bickhard, 2002; p. 3).
Connected to the larger system, the hand is an integral part; separated from the system it quite literally is dead and fills none of its intended functions. In
this light, the authors stress that managers must consider the larger perspective when making decisions. Among considerations are: * "How does the system work? That is, what allows an
adaptive system to hang together as a complex interconnected system? * "What possibilities are open to the system under which it retains or improves its integrity as an adaptive system?
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