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Managing systemic change – part 2

My situation of concern

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(Activity 2.2, 2.7, 2.9)

Updated 16 December 2010

TU812 is structured in a way to help me to to conduct a systemic inquiry into my own systems practice for managing change.  I have commented on this in An inquiry into my systems practice for managing change.

However the module also encourages me to identify a situation of concern that I can also apply systemic inquiry to.  I have really struggled with identifying a situation of concern – narrowing something down from just a generalised ‘my work’ into something that is more subject to investigation.

Part of the reason for this is outlined in my post Writer’s Block – telling sticky stories in which I am a player does not come easily to me.

But I have I have finally had the – aha – moment.  I have realised my situation of concern has been staring me in the face all along – I have even posted about an occasion when I took purposeful activity to act in this situation of concern (Elevator Pitch). Continue reading →

The practice of systemic inquiry

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(Activity 2.4)

I want to use this post to pull together thoughts so far on Systemic Inquiry.  I am not sure whether I have thoughts of my own yet – it is all about distilling, making sense of and grasping what has been presented in TU812 course materials – Open University (2010)* and Ison (2010)**. Continue reading →

Writer’s block: a sticky story

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(Activity 2.2)

In my last post, I ended up by saying that I often think too big about the situations I want to address – global warning, world peace, health inequalities and the entire UK public sector!   I suppose that is consistent with the approach to use of Systems in TU811 – there we worked on situations requiring strategic interventions and our assignments focused on distant news stories.

That approach does not seem right for TU812, where there is much more of a focus on you as a practitioner in everyday situations.  I therefore need to think more local, more immediate…..well more….everyday. Continue reading →

Sticky situations

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(Activity 2.1)

It is interesting that Ray Ison* uses the introduction of a IT ‘solution’ as his example of a sticky situation.  So far, my fellow students have also used IT examples.  Is it really that IT introductions fail more than other changes or that these situations are easier to remember than sticky situations only involving humans.   These are the everyday sticky situations, I can think of: Continue reading →