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The Process Mind
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The Process Mind

by Philip Kirby
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
315 pages
9h 12m
English
CRC Press
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The No. 1 Root Cause
We need to stop trying to make processes useful and start creating
useful processes.
FIFTH-GRADE MATH EXPOSES THE PROBLEMS
I present many talks and workshops on the dysfunction of functional think-
ing and sometimes I illustrate the problem. I ask a participant to come up
and help me demonstrate how a vertical organization and its inherent “white
space” is perhaps the biggest impediment to continuous process improvement.
White space is dened as the interaction between departments, which
shows as white space on traditional organization charts.
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Let’s call the participant Andy. Andy is going to start a shirt factory.
Isketch ...
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ISBN: 9781482228953