
314 The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
Tool #56 Strategic Management System
Application of Systems Dynamics #1: Holism
This is a systems approach to managing all parts of your organization in a more strategic
fashion. It uses many of the tools in this book in an integrated fashion.
A. Organizations as Systems
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For example:
Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it is getting. Thus, if results
are less than desired, the design should be changed. That includes adjusting structure,
work processes, linkages, information flows and functions to meet new needs.
—Keeping Current, Quetico Centre, 1994
A basic reorientation ...