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By Alfonso Cornejo
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Required performance
Globalization
Cost Control
Competitors
Customer
ever changing needs
Profit Goals
Economical cycles
Competitiveness standards
Do we look desorder......?
• Conflict
• Lack of priority
• Flaws
• Misalignment
• Limited resources
• Entropy
• Structures
• Behaviors
Two years later, due to the obligations that a top executive has,
a great amount of units is bought again, but from a different
supplier. Comments are not needed to know that the required effort
within the organization for the management, tracking and control
of, although apparently two similar technologies, needs an
abundant waste of energy, an additional talent display and a more
complex management for a situation that had already been
stabilized.
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¿How to deal with every day
Complexity ?
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12 10 3 5 4
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Low sales...
Rejected products...
Production delays...
Unsatisfied Customers....
Fails on communication.....
Demotivated people ....
Hurries.....
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• Etc....
b) Residual Complexity:
Related with the everyday operation of
the system, i.e. conflict, orders
cancelation, lack of raw material,
personnel, turnover, etc.
c)Provoked Complexity:
Generated by particular, political or
ego center decisions instead of group
consensus, i.e. to acquire wrong
technology, to make inadequate
executives selections, to launch to
market new products based on incomplete
analysis, etc.
“SPM”
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Need of alternative
perspectives
Improvement approaches have come and gone and still it seems that
we are unaware of the possible effects of our acts, we don’t have
identified levering points nor the key variables to manage the
organization conduct. All of this is due to the fact that many
tools have been developed (with great improvement potential) to
attack in an isolated and independent way parts of the system.
Nevertheless, as any other strong drug, we forget the lateral
effects when applying the antidote, and all this in non
controlled situations may be delicate for the organization.
After all, what is the organization?, but a chess board where the
figures live through events under certain rules and a squared
board. On one hand, the board and the game rules are at the same
time the structure that defines the game to be played and its
possibilities, and on the other hand, the processes are the place
that are gradually generating the system’s dynamic. And here is
where the cycle ends because when the processes occur gradually
they modify little by little the structure of the system, just
like the water drop that graves the hardest rock as time goes by,
and deforms it by the effect of a repetitive event.
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We can separate
current situations
that we observe and
live in a model of
polarities:
Plays &
Possibilities
Relationships
between pieces
S1 P1
S2
S3
P2
S4
S5
S6 P3
S7
Environment Environment
System Frontier
System Frontier
Some of the most important principles and properties of The Structure-Process Model are
the following:
S P Organization
S P Culture
S P Individual
S P
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Culture
One of the most important phenomena yet not defined
but which we can understand under the Structure-
Process Model is that of the Organizational Culture.
S P Organization
S P Culture
S P Individual
S P
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Structure-Process Model
Individual level
S P Organization
S P Culture
S P Individual
S P
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Structural
Change
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Design
One crucial point for any system its
his own design, because it is
precisely at this moment in which its
structure is molded and defined and
so, the capacity to trigger the
possibilities in its processes are
created.
Diagnostic of current
observed processes.
Structures that
generate the current
processes Current situation
Profile of required
processes in order to
maintain competitive
edge.
Structures required
are identified to
support the new Desired situation
organizational
processes.
System frontier
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