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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 3473 inthinking partners.
With the latest updates to our mailing list, this
month's invitation is going out to 3493 partners in
the U.S., as well as fellow inthinking partners in
Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil,
Canada, China, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany,
India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia,
South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, and the U.K.. Taken together, these
individuals represent over 470 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,
GM, IBM, General Electric, NASA, and Philips
Electronics. Among this list of invitees,
participation in last month's OD conference call
with Jane Lorand included 25 partners from across
the US and England as well. Added to the 382
partners for our sessions through October, 407
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 coming of the year-end holiday season, not
to mention (possibly inspired by Eric Idle) Look
at the Bright Side Day on December 21st, it's
time to come together for a few hours of "thinking
together." This month's Ongoing Discussion is
scheduled for Thursday, December 14th and Friday,
December 15th, from 12-2pm Pacific Time on both days.
Click here
for the December 2006 In2:InThinking Network
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 networks.
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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Contact Bill Bellows |
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December 2006 Ongoing Discussion - Ralph Wood
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Our last Thought Leader for the year is Ralph Wood,
the principal of Accelerating Excellence, LLC, a
consulting and training company dedicated to
improving the quality and productivity of
enterprises. Ralph is retired from United
Technologies Corporation, where served as the
director of the corporate-wide quality and
productivity operating system called Achieving
Competitive Excellence (ACE). While with United
Technologies, Ralph was also responsible for
overhauling a corporate-wide "Passport" stage-gated
product development process to reduce product
introduction failures, for leading the incorporation
of lean thinking into ACE, for conducting gap
analyses of UTC's program management practices and
participating in the creation of a Program Manager
Assessment Center, for creating metrics by which to
measure engineering effectiveness, and for
supporting the redesign of the Research Center's
innovation process by developing tools and metrics
for increasing the business impact of R&D. Prior to
joining United Technologies, Ralph spent most of his
career at GE's R&D Center, where he managed a
variety of product technology and process modeling
programs. He is a graduate of Brown University,
where he earned three degrees in mechanical
engineering, including his Ph.D.. Ralph stays
connected to United Technologies in his retirement
with consulting assignments. He is also employed as
an adjunct faculty member for the National Graduate
School, where he teaches courses in program
management and financial applications.
Ralph's Thought Piece is titled "Performance
Culture". A condensed list of the
Talking Points he would like to review with
us follows below, all taken from his experiences
over the past few years in leading the efforts to
transform the
culture of United Technologies.
Day 1 - What Characterizes a Performance Culture?
Notions of Purpose
Notions of Scope
Guiding Principles for a Performance Culture
Visible Artifacts
Deeply-held Beliefs and Assumptions
Day 2 - Transformation to a Performance Culture
Where to Start?
Be Proactive
Begin with the End in Mind
Put First Things First
Think Win-Win
Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
Synergize
Sharpen the Saw
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Contact Ralph Wood |
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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, December 14th 12:00-1:00pm
2 Thursday, December 14th 1:00-2:00pm
3 Friday, December 15th 12:00-1:00pm
4 Friday, December 15th 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 noon Pacific Time on
Wednesday, December 13th to confirm your plans to
participate in one (or more) of these options. If
you do plan to attend, please complete the OD
PARTICIPATION SURVEY by using the link below...
SURVEY
Those of you connecting in Canoga Park can join in
from conference rooms 205 and 206 in building 1 at
Canoga. Telecon lines (including a pass code and
a security code) have been arranged for those
who cannot join us at Canoga and are provided upon
completion of the participant survey.
Please forward this announcement to anyone we
missed who would also like to participate.
Regards...
Bill
Site Lead
Enterprise Thinking Network
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
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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
January 18-19: Russell Ackoff
February 22-23: Sheldon Rovin
March 22-23: Andrew Johnson and Lynn Sumida
April 26-27: TBD
May 17-18: Chris Soderquist
June 28-89: Rick Searfoss
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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
December
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)
The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap"
workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne, 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. Contact Bill
Bellows for additional seminar information or to
register for any of these upcoming sessions.
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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.
Format - two 4.5-hour sessions over two
days
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-541
Part 1 - 14-Dec-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 15-Dec-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-543
Part 1 - 11-Jan-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 12-Jan-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-545
Part 1 - 1-Feb-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 2-Feb-07 - 7:00-11:30am
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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.
Format - one 8-hour session.
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 Thinking 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.
Format - two 7-hour sessions over two
weeks.
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in
Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
New dates TBD
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Sign-up for Lateral Thinking |
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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.
Format - three 3-hour sessions over three
days
Schedule for Managing Variation as a System
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
New dates TBD
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Sign-up for Managing Variation as a System |
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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.
Format - three 7-hour sessions over three weeks.
Suggestion: If you are unable to attend all three
sessions in a given monthly series, we encourage you
to attend the first session and then attend the
second and third in any order during a future
monthly series.
Schedule for Kepner-Tregoe classes in Canoga
Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
New dates TBD
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Sign-up for Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving & Decision Making Seminar |
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| The New Economics Study Session |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite - there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - seven 2-hour sessions over three
weeks
Schedule for The New Economics Study
Session
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
New dates TBD
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Sign-up for announcements of the next TNE Study Session |
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