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Nov 12 2021

Cause and Effect Reasoning Is an Essential Skill for Leaders

  An article in the Harvard Business Review draws attention to the problem of confusing correlation with causation. “Western management has failed to understand cause and effect” W. Edwards Deming Mistaking correlation for cause can be dangerous.because it prevents us from understanding reality. Most importantly, if we do not nurture the ability to think cause […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: cause and effect, cause effect, Thinking Processes

Mar 26 2021

How to Cope With Change: Understanding Cause and Effect

Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to say: “The only thing that does not require maintenance is obsolescence”. This is a fundamental truth: if we do not evolve, we regress. What makes everything more complicated is the pace at which we must evolve to survive. Nobody would recommend change for the sake of it.  However, our […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: cause and effect

Jul 11 2018

Systemic Change Management – a Joined-Up Way to Transform

“The only thing that does not require maintenance is obsolescence”, as Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to say. This is a fundamental truth: if we do not evolve, we regress. What makes everything more complicated is the pace at which we must evolve to survive. Technology speeds everything up, including the world of technology. We’ve been looking at […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management · Tagged: cause and effect, digital transformation, systemic change management, systemic intelligence, Thinking Processes

Jun 29 2015

Leaders For Transformation: The Power of Breakthrough

At Intelligent Management we work beyond improvement; our goal is to inspire and highlight a path to transformation. To transform what? The  prevailing silo-based management style into one of system optimization. The word ‘sechel’, the title of one of our books, indicates in Hebrew precisely the intelligence required to achieve this: systemic intelligence, i.e. what […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: cause and effect, conflict cloud, Goldratt, innovation, Systems Thinking, Thinking Process Tools, transformation

Sep 09 2014

Change or Don’t Change? Do You Have a Choice?

There is a fundamental conflict about change that we all face throughout our lives. If we can verbalize it in a general way, then we have an opportunity to deal with it every time it haunts us.  If there is one thing we know we will face in life for certain, it’s change. From day […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: cause and effect, change, complexity, conflict cloud, desire, fear, theory of constraints

Sep 17 2013

How to See the Future with Science – Part Two on Predicting Process Behaviour

In Part Two of this article on predicting the future with science, we look at the tool from Statistical Process Control that helps us understand behaviour patterns in our processes so we can make more informed decisions.   When is a process predictable? We say that a process is “predictable”  when it is in a […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: cause and effect, change, complexity, Deming, education, future, future reality tree, intelligence, Intelligent Management, meaningful, prediction, Science, SPC, statistical process control, sustainability, Systems Thinking, Thinking Process Tools

Aug 21 2013

When a band-aid costs hundreds of dollars – a USA healthcare experience

The cuts healed in a few days, but months later, I am still dealing with the insurance aftermath and a lawyer. This is my recent healthcare experience in the USA that left me truly non-plussed.   On a visit to Reno in May this year, I had a close encounter with a wickedly sharp grater […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: cause and effect, healthcare, sustainability

Mar 26 2013

Connecting in a Network? Its usefulness is all about affinity.

Is all that effort to make connections in a network a waste of time? Network theory has something to teach us about all that. A lot of energy is consumed every day by people, groups, and organizations who frantically try to make as many connections  as possible. They do so for a reason: to increase […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: cause and effect, change, complexity, Comstock Mining Inc., conflict, conflict cloud, conflict resolution, constraint, core conflict cloud, critical chain, Deming, digital cowboys, Domenico Lepore, economics, education, entropy, fear, future reality tree, Goldratt, hierarchy, human resources, information system, innovation, intelligence, Intelligent Management, interdependencies, leadership, learning, Lepore, Management Training, meaningful, mining, negative branch reservation, network, Network Theory, new economcis, new economics, organization, organizational design, physics, post-digitial, Prerequisite Tree, process, project, project management, Quality, statistical process control, sustainability, synchronization, Systems Thinking, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools, transformation, Transition Tree, variation

Feb 07 2013

Everything Is Connected: A New Economics

After a hiatus over the New Year and preparations for a big move West to British Columbia, the Intelligent Management Blog is back! What do a Theatre Director, an entrepreneur and an organizational scientist have in common? When it comes to creating a New Economics, a great deal. Last weekend in Los Angeles, I had […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: cause and effect, change, complexity, Comstock Mining Inc., conflict, conflict cloud, conflict resolution, constraint, core conflict cloud, critical chain, Deming, digital cowboys, Domenico Lepore, economics, education, entropy, fear, future reality tree, Goldratt, hierarchy, human resources, information system, innovation, intelligence, Intelligent Management, interdependencies, leadership, learning, Lepore, Management Training, meaningful, mining, negative branch reservation, network, Network Theory, new economcis, new economics, organization, organizational design, physics, post-digitial, Prerequisite Tree, process, project, project management, Quality, statistical process control, sustainability, synchronization, Systems Thinking, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools, transformation, Transition Tree, variation

Dec 16 2012

A Mining Company With A Heart of Gold

In a recent article by Dawn Cranfield in The Guardian Express entitled  A Mining Company with a Heart of Gold – Comstock Mining, Inc., the author draws attention to what makes Comstock a very different kind of mining company: “Comstock Mining, Inc. had their first pour of gold and silver doré, unrefined gold bullion, on […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking · Tagged: cause and effect, change, complexity, Comstock Mining Inc., conflict, conflict cloud, conflict resolution, constraint, core conflict cloud, critical chain, Deming, digital cowboys, Domenico Lepore, economics, education, entropy, fear, future reality tree, Goldratt, hierarchy, human resources, information system, innovation, intelligence, Intelligent Management, interdependencies, leadership, learning, Lepore, Management Training, meaningful, mining, negative branch reservation, network, Network Theory, new economcis, new economics, organization, organizational design, physics, post-digitial, Prerequisite Tree, process, project, project management, Quality, statistical process control, sustainability, synchronization, Systems Thinking, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools, transformation, Transition Tree, variation

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