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Aim and Stats
Aim
Now in our seventh year of
operation, the aim of
the "OD" sessions is to continue to foster an
appreciation of Enterprise Thinking, as well as inthinking,
within an emerging thinking network that is
developing inside Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and
beyond. Dates for future "OD" sessions along with
additional "thinking" opportunities for 2006 can be
found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD
statistics, last month's invitation was sent to 3197
inthinking partners. With the addition of 37
inthinking partners, this month's invitation is
going out to 3234 partners in the U.S., as well as
fellow inthinking partners in Australia, Austria,
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France,
Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya,
Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Singapore,
Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden,
Switzerland, and the U.K.. Taken together, these
individuals represent over 440 organizations in this
list of nations, from elementary schools and senior
high schools to colleges and universities, from
one-person consulting firms to United Technologies,
IBM, General Electric, NASA, and Philips
Electronics. Among this list of invitees,
participation in last month?s conference call with
Joel Barker included 54 partners from across the US
and England as well. Added to 174 partners for our
sessions through April, 228 partners have joined in
so far this year (402 thinking partners joined us
throughout 2005). Yes, the diffusion process
continuuues...
In2:IN
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Good morning from Canoga Park, California, home of
United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
With the passing of Donald Duck Day (June 9th) and
the first day of summer, it's time to come together
for a few hours of "thinking together." This
month's Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for next
Thursday and Friday, June 29th and 30th, from 12-2pm
Pacific Time.
Click here
for the June 2006 In2:IN newsletter.
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| Welcome First Timers |
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Your names have been added by virtue of your
attendance in our series of Thinking Roadmap
seminars and overviews, or attendance at the annual
In2:InThinking Network Forum, or through a personal
request, from you or a friend. Welcome to our
thinking network.
Click the link below to send me the name and email
address of anyone you would like to have added to
the mailing list, or let me know if you would like
to be removed.
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| June 2006 Ongoing Discussion ? The Urgent Need for Systems Thinking inside the Hospital and Outside...for Survivors |
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Enterprise Thinking
Network is incredibly proud to introduce again our
friend and colleague Clare
Crawford-Mason as our Thought Leader for June
2006. Those of you who are veterans of the quality
movement and students of Dr. Deming (aren't we all,
or at least most of us?) will recognize Clare as the
producer of the legendary 1980 NBC white paper "If
Japan Can... Why Can't We?" which introduced Dr.
Deming and his ideas to the West and stimulated the
quality revolution and brought about the market for
management videos. She has also produced "Quality...Or
Else!" a PBS documentary series on problems of
globalization and American ingenuity in the
workplace, school, and government. This series is
used in junior college and college classes to
explain the new workplace and world economic
order.
Please join us for a discussion of Clare's Thought
Piece, an excerpt from her new book "The Nun and the
Bureaucrat", which can be found online. In this
book, doctors, nurses and administrators explain how
they came to believe that applying Toyota Production
System and Baldrige principles to their Pittsburgh
and Midwest hospitals would help them improve
patient care. They testify that delivery of care
dramatically improved as deaths, suffering and waste
were reduced and they regained joy and satisfaction
on the job. This discussion is important to all of
us, whether we work in healthcare or avail ourselves
of services offered by the vast network. If you
would like to test your mettle as a systems thinker,
just take a step into the world of healthcare.
Note that this book is a companion to Clare's latest
documentary
"Good News... How Hospitals Heal Themselves." Find more
information about this book on Clare's website.
Recent Media Coverage of this documentary:
- Focus on patient improves system by Cal
Thomas - "Is there anyone in America who doesn't
know that our hospitals are in trouble, along with
the rest of the health care system? ... What is
"systems thinking"? As described by veteran reporter
Lloyd Dobyns in a new documentary for Public
Television that has received some airings, but needs
to be viewed more widely, "systems thinking" is
"basically how you see things. Instead of seeing a
huge mess with one problem piled on top of another,
you see differently. You see with what people call
'new eyes.' You see how you and your work fit into
the system, and how you and your work connect to the
other people in the system."
Read more here.
- Systems thinking and our society by
Joachim Mueller - "I see a societal problem that is
bigger than anything and I probably share that view
with Mr. Thomas...Trouble is, in this society of
denial, cover-up and show activities, there is no
real chance to educate the whole
population."
Read more here.
Clare Crawford-Mason collaborated with Dr. W.
Edwards Deming to produce the authoritative
rendering of his management philosophy in
videocassette format. She is co-author of two
best-selling books about the developing global
market and the life and ideas of Dr. Deming: "Quality
or Else: The Revolution in World Business", Times
Books, 1994;
and "Thinking
About Quality: Joy, Meaning, and Profit in the
Workplace",
Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
If you are unable to join us, or would like to
reconnect with Clare after the OD sessions, you are
invited to contact her by email by clicking the link
below.
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| OD Details |
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Please join us for one or all of the hours of this
month?s OD. As always, you are invited to
participate for as long, or as short, as you can in one
or both of these sessions...
Option Time (Pacific
Time)
1 ? Thursday, June 29th 12:00-1:00pm
2 ? Thursday, June 29th 1:00-2:00pm
3 ? Friday, June 30th 12:00-1:00pm
4 ? Friday, June 30th 1:00-2:00pm
The agenda for each option will be:
Timing: Topic
Opening 10 minutes: Call in &
Introductions
Next 45 minutes: Ongoing Discussion
Last 5 minutes: Close
Please reply to this note by 5pm Pacific Time on
Wednesday, June 28th to confirm your plans to
participate in one (or more) of these options by
clicking "sign-up" below. If you do plan to attend,
please SPECIFY your option selection.
Those of you connecting in Canoga Park can join in
from conference rooms 205 and 206 in building 1 at
Canoga. Telecon lines have been arranged for those
who cannot join us at Canoga...
Inside & outside of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
866-285-7784
Pass code: 9823774
Note: if you have trouble connecting during the
telecon, contact me at 818-519-8209.
Please forward this announcement to anyone we
missed who would also like to participate.
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| Future OD Dates |
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Mark your calendars - future Ongoing Discussion
sessions will be held on the following dates, from
12-1pm and 1-2pm Pacific Time
Month, Dates and Thought Leader
July 27-28: Ron Schultz
August 24-25: Anna Maravelas
September 28-29: TBD
October 19-20 (or 26-27): TBD
November 16-17 (or 20-21): TBD
December 14-15: TBD
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| Systems Thinking Newsletter |
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Now available online for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne employees...
The
Systems Thinker is an electronic newsletter
made available monthly (on a subscription basis) by
Pegasus
Communications. Each issue provides articles
and case studies on systems thinking concepts and
is available only electronically (as a .pdf file).
Tools
and techniques for use in the Learning Organization
are regularly included in this valuable publication.
Featured authors include thought leaders and
consultants well known in organizational learning and
change management circles.
The current edition of the SYSTEMS THINKER, as well
as archived issues from February 2003 through June
2006, is available for reading and printing by Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne employees here.
Network friends outside of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne can learn more about this newsletter
AND read a variety of sample issues and articles online. Individual and site licenses are available.
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| Thinking Roadmap Seminars |
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Opportunities within Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
(PWR) and The Boeing Company
The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap"
workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne and The Boeing Company, as well as
suppliers, customers, family members, and "members
of the community." This schedule includes the next
available offerings for the listed seminars in
Canoga Park, CA plus offerings for the Enterprise
Thinking seminar in Huntington Beach, CA and
Decatur, AL.
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| Enterprise Thinking Workshop |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite ? there are NO pre-requisites.
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-523
Part 1 - 29-Jun-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 30-Jun-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-527
Part 1 - 26-Jul-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Jul-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Huntington Beach, CA for The Boeing Company
Class # HB-99
Part 1 - 24-Jul-06 - 7:30-12:00pm
Part 2 - 25-Jul-06 - 7:30-12:00pm
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Decatur, AL for The Boeing Company
Class # Decatur-15
Part 1 - 18-Jul-06 - 7:30-12:00pm
Part 2 - 19-Jul-06 - 7:30-12:00pm
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Sign-Up for Enterprise Thinking |
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| Six Thinking Hats |
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Registration Fee - $165, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Schedule for Six Thinking Hats classes in Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-44
18-Dec-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Six Hats |
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| Lateral Thinking |
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Registration Fee - $130, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in
Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-43
Part 1 - 23-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 30-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Lateral Thinking |
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| Direct Applied Thinking Tools |
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Registration Fee - $50, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Schedule for Direct Applied Thinking Tools
classes in Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-10
Part 1 - 23-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 30-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-Up for Direct Applied Thinking Tools |
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| Managing Variation as a System |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite ? there are NO pre-requisites.
Schedule for Managing Variation as a System
classes
in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 11-Sept-06 - 8:00-11:00am
Part 2 - 13-Sept-06- 8:00-11:00am
Part 3 - 15-Sept-06- 8:00-11:00am
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Sign-Up for Managing Variation |
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| Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making |
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Registration Fee - $330, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Schedule for Kepner-Tregoe classes in Canoga
Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 12-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 19-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 3 - 26-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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