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Aim and Stats
Aim
Now in our eighth 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 2007
can be found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD statistics, this
month's invitation is going out to 3582
partners in the U.S., as well as fellow
inthinking partners in Australia, Austria,
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Canada, China,
Dubai, 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 600 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 Andrew Johnson included 20 partners
from across the US and England as well (123
have joined us so far in 3 sessions in 2007,
444 partners joined us throughout 2006, 402
thinking partners joined us throughout 2005).
In2:IN
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Good morning from Canoga Park, California,
home of United Technologies' Pratt
& Whitney Rocketdyne.
With the passing of passing of the sixth
annual In2:InThinking Network Forum and
the coming of Earth
Day, it's time to come together for a few
hours of "thinking together." This month's
Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for
Thursday, April 26th and Friday, April 27th,
from 12-2pm Pacific Time on both days.
Click here
for the April 2007 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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| April 2007 Ongoing Discussion - John Pourdehnad |
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As we come off a successful 2007
In2:InThinking Forum, we are pleased to share
a first-time Forum speaker with those who
could not attend the Forum in Los Angeles.
John Pourdehnad, great friend of the Network,
was one of our conference speakers. This is
a good example of our intention to keep us
all connected throughout the year by means of
the annual Forum followed (and preceded -
it's a cycle) by the monthly Ongoing
Discussions. The title of John's presentation
on Saturday morning of the Forum weekend was
"The
Devil is Not in the Details."
For the April OD, John offers another paper
titled "Synthetic
(Integrative) Project Management". John
suggests that despite significant progress in
the development of computer-aided project
management tools to help plan and manage
projects, "more often than not capital
projects overrun their budgets, fall behind
schedule, and fail to meet their business
objectives." This paper examines this
apparent paradox and proposes a different
strategy for improving performance.
Specifically, John argues that this problem
stems from the nature of the "traditional
paradigm, which relies on existing knowledge
- knowledge gained from studying traditional
approaches." Please join us in a meaningful
conversation stemming from questions that
matter. There will be plenty of opportunity
to flex your new muscles, if you participated
in the Forum, and plenty of chances to
challenge your own thinking. What does your
"traditional approach" look like, and how did
you get stuck there? This month's Ongoing
Discussion promises to be a rich experience.
John is presently the Associate Director of
the Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems
Approaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also an adjunct professor of Systems
Engineering. He has for many years worked
extensively with Dr. Ackoff, and the two of
them have consulted for nearly every industry
or kind of business you can imagine. John has
written or edited several books.
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Contact John Pourdehnad |
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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, April 26th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Thursday, April 26th - 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Friday, April 27th - 12:00-1:00pm
4 - Friday, April 27th - 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: Farewells and Close
Please reply to this note by noon Pacific Time on
Wednesday, April 25th 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...
PARTICIPANT
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.
As always, 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
May 16-17: Chris Soderquist (new dates)
June 28-89: Rick Searfoss
July 26-27: TBD
August 23-24: TBD
September 27-28: Tracy Huston
October 18-19: Gipsie Ranney
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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
March 2007, 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 Seminar |
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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-553
Part 1 - 15-May-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 17-May-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-555
Part 1 - 05-Jun-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 08-Jun-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-557
Part 1 - 28-Jun-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 29-Jun-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-559
Part 1 - 26-Jul-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Jul-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
New dates TBD
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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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