My recent tweets ranging from Cybernetics to John Boyd/OODA Loop to Kaizen.

Chaos is more like a wave that you have to ride, than a ladder you have to climb. Dynamic model than a static model. Littlefinger got it wrong. 🤔 #Cybernetics pic.twitter.com/1UMD7pMCC1

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 17, 2019

Delayed information is a strong variety attenuator.

But, the strongest of all variety attenuators is sheer ignorance. #VSM #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 16, 2019

1/2 The most important thing to remind ourselves is that we are reacting to “a” model of the phenomenon, not the actual phenomenon itself. Our minds create the model following Ashby’s law, filtering out “unwanted” details and amplifying certain details. #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 15, 2019

1/2 Stafford Beer’s Designing Freedom is an excellent resource to understand his main ideas. It was written more for general understanding. Interestingly, the language reflect a “hard systems” view. Examples on the following tweet. #VSM #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 13, 2019

1/2 “In order to maintain viability, the total system must have a central regulatory model… we cannot dodge the truth that it will constrain variety in the parts. The precise form of variety attenuation is a matter for local decision.” #VSM #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 11, 2019

1/2 Espejo- “if you are going to devolve power, then workers, managers, and administrators must understand how to close the loops locally. They must understand how to produce feedback locally.” #VSM #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 11, 2019

1/5 One of the fascinating things about VSM for me is the idea of autonomy. As Espejo puts it – Autonomy was the essence of the model. What we struggled with was, how do you recognize autonomous systems within autonomous systems? #VSM #Cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 10, 2019

1/2 Any model/abstraction follows Ashby’s law. The model does not exactly match the phenomenon. The unwanted variety is attenuated and selected variety is amplified. I#cybernetics #Ashby #requisitevariety

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 9, 2019

1/2 Deskilling an operation must not mean that we are dehumanizing. It should be about improving the quality of work life for the operator. The operator should be a central part of any improvement activity. #lean #Ackoff #kaizen

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 6, 2019

Effective research is not disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary; it is transdisciplinary. – Ackoff #systemsthinking

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 6, 2019

Leave a little bit of room for mistakes in all that you do. #SaturdayThoughts

Always keep on learning.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 5, 2019

Pursuit of kaizen is primarily a pursuit of effectiveness. #kaizen #lean

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 5, 2019

A good heuristic- ‘Effectiveness comes first’.
The first step towards kaizen is about effectiveness, not efficiency. Eliminate, followed by combine, rearrange and simplify. #lean #kaizen pic.twitter.com/1yByc1EInO

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 5, 2019

1/2 We should construct the box around the problem rather than force fitting the problem into a preformed box. The box should add to the wholeness of our understanding of the problem.
Thoughts from reading Christopher Alexander. #patternlanguage #patterns

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 4, 2019

‘The most important question is the one that has not yet been asked.’

My heuristic inspired by Popper’s falsification principle. #ThorsDayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) October 3, 2019

The process of making improvements should be continuously improved and made easier to do. #FridayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) September 20, 2019

“You cannot use a system’s own workings to determine if a system is consistent or not.” Boyd on Gödel.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) September 18, 2019

1/2Boyd utilized Gödel’s theorems for his OODA loop along with 2nd law of Thermodynamics and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
“One cannot determine the character and nature of a system within itself. Moreover, attempts to do will lead to confusion and disorder.” #OODA #Boyd

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) September 18, 2019