Exercise: Working Practices 1/2
Round 1
- Please choose a large organization or company you have some experience with or a system like health services
- Look at the whole of the organization or the system you have chosen
- For each row below, please choose the practice that became the preferred practice during the previous two decades
• Is applying both practices a standard situation? In this case, this row can be skipped - Do it quickly
Split complex challenges into parts
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When the challenge is complex, apply self-organization or agile practice
Use linear processes such as step-by-step and ‘If the situation is X, then do Y’
Create natural process flows
Like roundabouts on the road replaced rigid traffic lights for better throughput, lower costs and fewer accidents
Management and experts provide the decisions to make
Happens through directions, rules, standards, processes, IT applications and the like
People have the freedom to make decisions for the situation at hand
Build on what you have
Stop doing what does not work
Define what you are talking about
Use patterns: everybody can have a somewhat different view
Demonstrate short-term action when problems occur
Resolve problems at their root cause(s)
When there is insufficient compliance: Enforce compliance with best practices, processes, strategies, standards and the like
Give people the freedom to do what makes (business) sense
Please keep the number of choices you made at the left and right in mind