Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Monthly “Problem-Solving Master” Book Tuning: Systematic Problem-Solving Mar. 2019

Systems Thinking helps to create common rationale ground between different perspectives, understand interconnectivity between parts and the whole.

The purpose of Problem-Solving Master - Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problems Creatively is to throw some light on how to understand, frame, and solve today’s multilayer, interdependent, and over-complex business problems effortlessly. Digital leaders and professionals should self-aware of their role in problems, show professional maturity, and develop a good reputation as the problem-solver.



                Systematic Problem-Solving


Systematic Problem-Solving: Looking out of Problems before Looking into the Problem Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem, not just the band-aid approach to fixing the symptom. How you find a solution to any problem depends on your perspective to that problem, but every problem has numerous angles to take into consideration. To deal with many of today’s complex problems, perhaps you need to conduct a systematic problem-solving approach - what Russ Ackoff, an American organizational theorist, used to call "looking out of the problem" as opposed to "looking into the problem," in order to solve problems thoroughly.

Shaping a Holistic View -Seeing both Forest and Trees? Holistic thinking involves understanding a system by sensing its large-scale patterns and addressing the big picture. In terms of a holistic'viewpoint,' one does often need to integrate different stereotyped or mechanistic viewpoints; it is the integration and searches for new viewpoints that are holistic. At times, when you only want to see things from your own point of view, see what you want to see, or, hear what you want to hear, often you miss the point to understand the real problem holistically as well as how to solve it creatively or systematically. Here are three aspects of shaping a holistic view of digital transformation.

Critical Thinking as the Cure of Three Symptoms of the “VUCA” Digital Normality Change is the new normal. In the digital era, any business can be at risk for survival at any minute due to continuous fast-paced changes and continuous digital disruptions. Digital leaders and professionals must leverage critical thinking as an effective tool to deal with “VUCA” digital new normal. Critical thinking can combine different thinking processes, to gather a mass of information, break it apart and reconstructed with a level of accuracy for projecting futuristic events, or numbers, etc. In reality, there is only a very small fraction of true critical thinkers. How to spot and cultivate more critical thinkers who can cure the following three symptoms of digital normality.

Systems Thinking and Digital Management Systems Thinking is a representation of how we see patterns in life, it is also an emergent property of the basic aspects of nature, layer on layer of systems, each with their own emergent behavior, coming together to create super systems we interact with daily. Systems thinking can help today’s top business leaders and management develop systems approaches to either make effective decisions or solve complex business problems in a structural way. Because Systems Thinking helps to create common rationale ground between different perspectives, understand interconnectivity between parts and the whole. Thus, systematic problem-solving has a better chance to solve the real problem with less side effect. Here are the multiple perspectives on how to leverage systems thinking in digital management.

The New Book “Problem-Solving Master” Chapter IV: Leverage Systems Thinking in Problem-Solving The world has become so dynamic with the exponential growth of information, it is full of opportunities and problems. Many problems do exist because they are either ill-defined or the concept cannot be adequately captured contextually. Further, there’s the problem that the same word means different things to different people because they carry different emotional baggage or have a cognitive difference. So, what’re the logical scenarios for problems diagnosing and solving? And how to leverage Systems Thinking in problem-solving?

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