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Guiding Principles
Trans-disciplinary teams, consisting of faculty members, senior fellows and research
assistants, together with personnel from sponsoring organizations, work on sets of
interrelated problems and opportunities faced by that organization. The work is
reviewed frequently in both the sponsoring organization and the Center. The teams
will operate under the following guiding principles:
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to involve as many as possible of those who will be affected by the work,
to conceptualize each set of problems and opportunities in the largest context
over which the responsible managers have some control,
to dissolve rather than solve problems by redesigning the relevant
system to eliminate the problems & preclude their reappearance,
to take into account, in making recommendations the effects of any proposed actions
on the physical and social environment of the sponsoring organization and on all of its
stakeholders,
to provide each sponsoring organization with an increased ability to make
effective decisions; that is, to do the right things as well as do things right,
to learn from its experience and to adapt to changing conditions.
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The Center uses these principles to advance systems planning, research,
and design -- and, to increase its own and sponsoring organizations’ competencies in
these activities.
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