This episode introduces the experience and current thinking of co-presenter, Ed Straw.
We talk about his journey from being an engineering graduate to consulting at the heart of Westminster, how he encountered power and the confusion surrounding it.
Then we get into his current thinking – he’s now a research fellow at the Open University’s Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group, and has found in Systems Thinking many effective responses to issues that have plagued governments down the decades.
The (full podcast!) story of General Motors’ collaboration with Toyota is a great rehearsal of how systemic change can work, and the relevant challenges: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
W. Edwards Demming, genius behind Japanese revolution in manufacturing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
and that revolution: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/12/23/japans-secret-w-edwards-deming/b69b8c00-4c5d-483a-b95e-4aeb1d94d2c6/
Relevance of Drawing the Boundary to Systems Thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_critique
The Compassionate Frome Project: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/21/town-cure-illness-community-frome-somerset-isolation
DAD and EDD: https://www.edstraw.com/new-public-service-management-from-dad-to-edd/
Real world example in Australia: https://johnmenadue.com/cock-ups-conspiracies-or-system-failures/
