The Power of "In A Sense": Topical Thinking for Organizations
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The Power of “In A Sense”:Topical Thinking For Organizations
October 29, 2013Progressive Insurance, Studio 96
Kipum (Kip) LeeInstructor & Doctoral CandidateWeatherhead School of ManagementCase Western Reserve University
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What solid systems and SOPs do is nip common problems in the bud so that staff can focus instead on solving the uncommon problems that come their way.”
Mr. Marriott
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And by providing a stable background in which human activity may proceed with a minimum of decision-making most of the time, it frees energy for such decisions as may be necessary on certain occasions. In other words, the background of habitualized activity opens up a foreground for deliberation and innovation.”
Berger & Luckmann
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Common Uncommonor
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Background Foregroundor
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Left brain Right brainor
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Left brain Right brainor
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Left brain Right brainand
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B-school D-schooland
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B-school D-schooland
is in a senseB-school
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Management Designand
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Designand
Management
Management
Design
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Designand
Managing
Management
Designing
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Left Rightand
Four ways of integrating the:
Inspired by Richard McKeon’s essay, “The Future of the Liberal Arts”
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Facts Valuesand
1. What are data?
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Valuesand
Facts
Facts
Values
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Valuesand
Facts
Facts
Values
Cultivate an environment that invites a multiplicity of interpretations; data is not
unambiguous
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Valuesand
Facts
Facts
Values
Cultivate an environment that invites a multiplicity of interpretations; data is not
unambiguous
Find data that has not yet been detected by the organization, a.k.a. “the unexpected,” or insight
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Already existing Yet to be madeand
2. What is your product?
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Yet to be madeand
Already existing
Already existing
Yet to be made
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Yet to be madeand
Already existing
Already existing
Yet to be made
Have to be open to new expressions of product
that fit new situations yet sustain the essence
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Yet to be madeand
Already existing
Already existing
Yet to be made
Have to be open to new expressions of product
that fit new situations yet sustain the essence
Consider the taken-for-granted “products” in system, destabilize them, looking for possibility
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Here-and-now Indirectand
3. What are consequences of your product?
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Indirectand
Here-and-now
Here-and-now
Indirect
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Indirectand
Here-and-now
Here-and-now
Indirect
Understand the value of indirect interactions as they have potential to
impact direct interactions
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Indirectand
Here-and-now
Here-and-now
Indirect
Understand the value of indirect interactions as they have potential to
impact direct interactions
Figure out ways to fuse the “human touch” in artificial things, e.g. digital products and touchpoints
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Parts Wholesand
4. Why do your products exist?
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Wholesand
Parts
Parts
Wholes
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Wholesand
Parts
Parts
Wholes
Move from abstract principles of organization to the realm of concrete
in lived experience
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Wholesand
Parts
Parts
Wholes
Move from abstract principles of organization to the realm of concrete
in lived experience
Organizations are products, products are principles; how might we think in “themes”?
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Facts Values
and
Parts Wholes
Already existing Yet to be made
Here-and-now Indirect
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