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Doug McDavid posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 8 months ago
In reply to: David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: via @mercatus WSJ profile on Austrian school of economics at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703418004575455911922562120.html# , with rejoinder […] ViewQuick point on economists (sorry if this has been covered already). I’m still on the point of the enterprise as a system, and I am finding some helpful thinking in Douglass North and Oliver Williamson, who specifically extend Coase’s work on the nature of the firm, and (to my crazed mind) indicate a whole subject area of institutional…[Read more]
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Doug McDavid posted on the forum topic Elevator Speech Challenge (request one posting from each Member) in the group
Systemicists: 1 year, 10 months agoElevator Speech In large organizations, people tend to be caught up in their own boxes — whether their job descriptions, departments or functions. I have trained myself to see how the boxes fit together, within the organization as a whole, and with its environment. Cornfield Speech Out here it is easy to see the interrelatedness [...]
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Doug McDavid posted on the forum topic System of systems in the group
Systemicists: 1 year, 10 months agoI think it’s fair to paraphrase Bill Livingston when he talks about problem system and solution system, where the solution system needs requisite variety for all the aspects of the problem that need to be controlled (and where the problem is never solved, but controlled to an acceptable level).
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@dougmcdavid Your mention of Bill Livingston led me onto a web search. It seems that snippets of his books are not available, so the best hints are on the guest speaker archives on parshift.com, with a variety of writings on governance.
I also found a link on a page by John W. Shipman that led to an archived page on The Front End.
If the…[Read more]
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Doug McDavid posted on the forum topic System of systems in the group
Systemicists: 1 year, 10 months agoIn response to Steve Haeckel, who was responding to the IBM paper that David references, I said: “As far as the term “systems of systems” is concerned, this was a big Aha! at DoD a few years ago. I encountered a lot of that meme in NASA, when I was at Almaden. I observed their [...]
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@dougmcdavid Welcome! It’s great to see your face/avatar online.
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