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The 2013 edition of Sea of Systems builds on the 2011
edition with enhanced and expanded explanations of
Deming cycle, reflection, system archetypes, systemic
mapping and systems thinking. Please click the picture below to download your copy.
It offers pragmatic tools and detailed explanations of the new learning skills required to manage and develop IT organizations in the face of ever increasing complexity.
→ Increase Business Focus
→ Increase IT Value
→ Increase Innovation
Gain a valuable insight into the toolset and mindset of the new-age Technology Leader and learn how to stay ahead and positively thrive in today's world of intrinsic interconnectedness.
→ Reduce cost and risk in IT
→ Sustain a competitive advantage in IT service management
→ Create unity and cohesion across disparate IT groups
→ Transform and energize sleeping organizational cultures
→ Leverage all members of IT in achieving a common goal
→ Orchestrate organizational complexity
→ Deliver balanced outcomes to your clients
→ Develop a sustainable Learning Culture in IT
Abstract
"In business and governance, the environment of the 21st century is observably different to what it was even ten years ago. We are seeing the beginnings of a true global economy where all parts of the economic infrastructure are interconnected.
Small events in distant countries can affect events throughout the world. Countries, even the most advanced Western nations, can no longer act in isolation. In a chaotic world, the effect of minor events is no longer confined to one nation or company.
Small events are just as likely to produce very large effects and even threaten stability. A new perception of the world, its problems and solutions, is needed to manage and govern a country or region or a business efficiently.
Different skills and procedures are necessary to facilitate development in this worldwide context."
Professor Moscardini - The University of Sunderland.
"In his foreword Professor Moscardini is presenting a challenge that holds the key to the next generation of organizational development, which I believe is all about intrinsic interconnectedness. It requires as its basic premise the ability to bring together all of our precious assets and to perform the art of Organizational Learning.
In Sea of Systems I outline the concepts and new learning skills required to step-up to the challenge in IT. How to increase the intellectual output and cohesiveness of an organization made from disparate units or islands that sometimes appear to have little in common." Read the guide online here at Van Wood Blog:
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on August 29, 2011, 4:51 pm
The systemic complexity of IT is easy to overlook in a busy IT services environment ― we hope the guide will help to highlight some of the pitfalls and provide a useful tool to help IT organizations increase their maturity systematically and systemically using systems thinking.
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