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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- Internal and external forces beyond thecontrol of management strongly influence the life-cycle characteristics oforganizations. As a business moves, from infancy through adolescences tomaturity and decline, the precepts for profit growth can change dramatically.Many corporations have become quite large and successful, only to ride and curvedownward at the end a cycle. In the process, enormous amount of shareholdervalue are destroyed. Companies such as Wang and IBM are recent examples.Businesses that survive and succeed over the long-term must redefine or evenreinvent themselves, not just once, but repeatedly. Imagining the next step isa big challenge. Implementing the transformation without permanently damagingthe business is an even more complex strategic undertaking.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- This paper revealed the main problems whichthwarted Shanghai’seconomic Growth before 1990s. Basic principles of long term coordinateddevelopment of city and metropolis are explored. The paper described theblueprint of Shanghi in 2010 and studied more main factors which might limitits future economic development.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- Chinese state-owned enterprises, which havedecades of expertise under planning economic system, have been inured to thesimple production function far from the market-oriented economy, the challengeand influence they met are serve. Some experiences have been accumulated in thepast years reform, but how to make state-owned enterprises more vigorous isstill a critical problem that should be solved immediately. This article triesto discuss how to apply the learning organization, a successful managementtheory and method used in the Western Countries universally, to theorganization-constructing of Chinese state-owned enterprise so as to find out acommonly effective means to envigor the enterprise. The characters and problemsof Chinese state-owned enterprises as well as the features of learningorganization applied in Chinaare illustrated in the article at first. Then the procedures of buildinglearning organization in a typical enterprise are discussed, aiming atdeveloping the basic principles and commonly used methods of realizing alearning organization. The combination of learning organization and geneticstructures are developed. Because the principles and methods are rooted in theChinese realization, it is possible to be applicable to our purpose.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- In this paper we will develop a systemicframework for the description of organization by which we will define‘organizational learning’ and ‘learning organization’. The framework willfollow modern insights on system-theory and will be used to define and operatethese concepts. In order to do this, first, a general framework forobserving/defining systems will be introduced. This will follow the distinctionbetween organization and structure of systems. Secondly, the general frameworkfor defining systems will be used to define organizations. To this aim, the‘organization/structure’ dichotomy will be further conceptualized according tosocial system-theory. Here, antipoetic, communication-oriented notionorganization (Luhmann, 1988) will be used. A communication definition oforganizations, however, does not suffice: a rationale for defining a‘communicative whole’ as an organization should be given. These rationales areto be found in the perceived network of outputs and transformation of theorganization to-be-defined. Finally, to an organization, defined as acommunicative system, a number of properties might be attributed. Among theseare learning (organizational learning and the learning organization),flexibility and anticipation. These concepts can be defined adequately withinthe developed framework. To conclude, it will be argued that the definedconcepts of flexibility and anticipation contribute to the understanding of thelearning capabilities of organizations. Therefore, these concepts may offer anincreased understanding of learning and of how learning can be influenced.Consequently, this leads to an increased understanding of how organizations maygain viability.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- System dynamics is increasingly employed asa method to foster team learning in strategic decision making groups. Althoughonly a full brown computer simulation model can reveal the dynamics of thesystem, in group model building the client organization is frequently satisfiedwith the construction of a conceptual (qualitative) model. In this paper a caseis described in a Dutch government agency. Since people from differentdepartments held strongly opposite viewpoints on the strategy, the agency haddiscussed its strategic problem for more than a year, but had obviously notbeen able to reach consensus. The group model-building process was successfulin integrating opposite points of view, as well as in fostering consensus andcreating commitment. Careful evaluation of the case shows that three factorsmight have been responsible for this: the role of systemic thinking,improvement of the quality of communication and finally the role of thefacilitator.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- The aim of the national health Service(NHS) is to provide access to medical care to all. One of the challenges is tobalance demand and resources while avoiding unduly waiting lists, either fortreatment (the traditional waiting list phenomenon), or to see a practitioner.This note illustrated how Systems Thinking can contribute to the understandingof the complex of this issue, and to assess the impact of various policies.Systems thinking differs from traditional approaches in that it looks at theproblem as a whole, as a system, and focuses on identifying keyinter-relationships and feedback loops between different components of thesystem. We present three simple examples which illustrate the concepts ofsystems thinking, and indicate how this approach could be useful to analyzevarious policies.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- Modern manufacturing systems are expectedto respond rapidly, effectively and efficiently to changes in the marketplace.Simultaneously there is the drive to achieve world class customer servicelevels coupled with minimum reasonable inventory (MRI). We thus have theclassic conflict of interests between marketing off-the-shelf; production isstill all-too-often looking to manufacture in economic batch quantities so asto achieve economies of scale; and the materials management is trying tominimize storage and distribution costs which in turn requires that a totalsystems MRI policy be adopted.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- TokyoMetropolitan Area (TMA) has two airports for air service, are Haneda and Naritaairport. So far, Haneda airport delivers the service for domestic air flights,while Narita airports for international flights. This has mainly done by thestrong regulation of the government.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- Value Processes are those high levelprocesses which are critical to achieving an organization objectives. Thispaper describes the authors’ work in re-engineering a value process which wasnot working efficiently and causing serious problems to an important newbusiness operation. Conventional process engineering tools were initially usedand after these had failed to deliver significant improvement. The authorsreaddressed the problem using System Dynamics and the I-THINK modeling tool.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1994
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, c060552994c1527f70693734935660f1, and fe35db792b573af835d96e6eba4759cd
- Description:
- We have tackled the problem of teachingbusiness logistics. Over vision and knowledge of the industrial world andparticularly its logistics are obviously not the same as that of out graduateand post-graduate students without professional experiences. Therefore, ourteaching difficulty consists in adopting the means of transferring knowledge tothis specific public. How can system dynamics contribute to this knowledgetransmission?