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Opportunity Analysis
“Mindfulness”
Mindfulness is about the ability of a system to concentrate on what is going on here
and now.
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With all the noise and distraction of a reactive work environment it is sometimes
easy to overlook the obvious. For instance, if we wanted to perform a Root Cause
Analysis (RCA) on an event, would we know which event was the most signicant
or costly? Experience demonstrates that we would not. In a reactive environment,
we naturally become focused on the short term. We tend to look at the problems or
events that just happened and naturally think they are the most signicant at the time.
This is a problem because ...