dward Deming - one of the visionary management thinkers of the past decade - had said - "94% of the problems in business are systems driven and only 6% are people driven", yet even today we do not find many companies, individuals or even B-Schools focusing / teaching individuals to look at the systems at play in an organizational context.Why are we so ignorant of this fundamental aspect?
I am a lifelong student of the "5th Discipline" and believe that ideas mentioned in this "cult classic" book are extremely powerful. While I have been re-looking at these frameworks and ideas in the context of some consulting assignments I have been working on - I thought are we now so focused on "specialization" that we are actually moving away from the fundamental thought that what I produce / create must work as part of the overall system.
As I follow the HR Tech space closely I do stop to admire these beautiful systems created to solve a fundamental problem or even sometimes creating disruptive ways of doing things differently. However I feel that in this spirit of enterprise are we losing the big picture? Are we now living in times where I can get perfectly working "parts" and will have to create my own "machine"/"system" out of such perfectly working parts? Is that what "Integration" is all about?
Increased awareness about impact of individuals and organizations on environment is being created by various bodies while we have now started to acknowledge that our actions lead to some impact over a longer period of time. However we are all - me included - are far from making this as part of our life. The transient nature of our existence and "specialized" focus on "survival" are the key aspects, according to me.
If anyone of you have seen an enterprise coming into existence by taking an systemic view of things I would be happy to learn more about the same.
