Dealing with Complexity

We all have experienced these: Long hours of planning and forecasting that don’t work, clients changing their mind from one day to another, decisions taken that seemed illogical. How can we explain all of that? In this talk we learnt about complex systems in order to understand the reason behind these situations. The talk explored why learning more about complex system is useful in your every day work.

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1. Dealing with COMPLEXITY July 14th 2015, Berlin dealing with COMPLEXITY . Gilberto Urueta @gisasola1 up.front
2. DEFINITION
3. DEFINITION ???
5. UNPREDICTABLE
6. U N P R E D I C T A B L E
7. CONSTANTLY CHANGING
8. HE AND HIS ENVIRONMENT CHANGE
9. NO GOING BACK
10. U N P R E D I C T A B L E N O G O I N G B A C K “Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”
11. How to handle it? Lets make an example
12. Your task :
13. Many possible solutions Many things could happen
14. How did we deal with it? 1. We had a “bag” of coherent ideas. 2. We acted in the present based on what we saw. 3. We modified basically the environment and NOT the person. 4. We used dynamic constraints and enablers.
15. All these for what ?
16. Problems 1. Long hours of planning and forecasting. 2. Clients changing their minds. 3. Decisions taken that seemed illogical.
17. Finally
18. References Dav e Snowden Alicia Juarrero
19. Thank you July 14th 2015, Berlin dealing with COMPLEXITY . Gilberto Urueta @gisasola1 up.front