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Friday, February 23, 2007
Questions of Change -- For the better part of a year, Jack Vinson's been reiterating important questions when faced with a decision about a proposed change (distilled from some of Goldratt's thinking. I've been remiss in point them out. He mentioned them in November in a piece on "what good looks like"...
1. What is the power of the technology (change)? 2. What is/are the limitation(s) being overcome? 3. What old rules were followed because of the limitation? 4. What rules need to be followed now (as a result of the change)?
Hopefully, the "old rules" of number 3 were put in place as defensive work-arounds related to undesirable situations. The "new rules" are partly the new process and partly reinforcements to ensure the change does what is intended over time.
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