Management System Thinking Implementation

Management System Thinking Miniseries

This article concludes the AMP Newsletter – Management System Thinking miniseries.  It outlines simple steps to implement this type of thinking.  A summary of the preceding articles that define this type of thinking are as follows:

• What is Management System Thinking? – This article tells the story of how I was introduced to management system thinking as a mid-level officer on my first assignment to US Coast Guard Headquarters.  I’m sure this story is familiar to many. This article explains that management system thinking is a natural phenomenon in large, complex organizations. It explains that if you want to learn how to get things done in a large, complex organization on an enterprise scale you must learn management system thinking.

• Asset Management and the Price of Regret – This article highlights opportunity costs of choosing the “safe” bet of not to evolve your organization’s asset management capabilities.  The article frames this choice around the “price of regret”.  The challeng…