Lenses or Positions to look from to gain perspective on a situation or system
Here are some lenses/perspective to apply to any situation – to not necessarily deliver the truth, but to drive out ideas or views that would otherwise be obscured
Use these to explore a situation that is puzzling or unclear
Resilience
How good are we at surviving difficulty. This can be very important in places where there is rapid change.
Sustainability (renewable)
How good are we at the long term continouos delivery. Keeping going. Different to resiliance, that seems more about dealing with crises and unexpected change.
Impermanence
What is the natural lifetime of this iinitiative, idea, system, team. How do we embrace the decline and death of this as sonething natural and normal.
Inclusivity / Diversity
inclusiveness leads to resiliance?
See Processes & Methodologies (Agile other) for things view-based methodologies like Appreciative Enquiry and Theory of Constraints
Optimised For…
What is the organisation/team optimised for?
eg. UK Railways – delivering maximum apologies → automatic apologies
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Creation – Consumption
Where do we sit on creation to consumption? This indicates how creative, interesting, open things can be.
Or do we just have to have what we already have?
Conway’s Law
Industrial Age
Circular. Zero waste maximum value extraction.
Complexity
Simplicity