The Occamsys Approach
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Are your margins eroding despite your well taken costs reduction initiatives?
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Are there other detrimental factors at work? Undue Complexity and lack of sufficient Quality in Information Systems (Software) are not only a significant contributor to the escalating costs of IT, but posits a reputational risk if not contained.
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Are you constantly “Fire-Fighting”?
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Your internal teams may have the focus to only “react” to the pressures of Business-as-Usual commitments on a day-to-day basis. There is no bandwidth for “proactive” thinking.
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Are you taking any action?
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Continued inaction can only result in real risks to the sustainability of the business sooner than later.
1. LISTENING – to both what is explicitly mentioned, as well as understand what is not being said.
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“Listen to what is being said, as well as what is not being said”
Peter F. Drucker
“Seek first to understand…”
Stephen R Covey
2. QUESTIONING
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To get to the underlying need of the business situation
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To identify the real problem and not the symptoms
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3. Problem Identification with “Reframing”
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You may have bits and pieces of a problem, but not sure how best to fit them together!
4. GET CONSENSUS on the Problem(s)
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5. AGREE on the EXPECTATIONS
6. PROPOSE the SOLUTION(S)
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Using the Strategy of “Unbounded Systems Thinking”
The Occamsys Team will work with your Team in Taming Complexity in your Information Systems, Projects and Programmes.
“Mitroff & Linstone's 'Fifth Way of Knowing'…. Unbounded systems thinking argues that complex problem solving requires the application of as many disciplines, professions, and branches of knowledge as possible, with each one employing different paradigms of thought.”
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Information systems development methodologies: a broader perspective
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D.E. Avison
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Mitroff, I., & Linstone, H. (1993). The Unbounded Mind, breaking the chains of traditional business thinking. Oxford University Press, New York.
