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| Systems Thinking for Business |
- Once productive processes bow to new competition
- New markets challenge current methods
- Government regulation compliance adds work and costs
- Labor market shifts inspire new employee recruitment and retention programs
What if things get worse? If the pilot project fails, what do we try next?
| Improving Business with iThink | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
iThink offers a risk-free way to make decisions that drive business improvement. iThink guides you and your business team through the creation of models that simulate business processes and scenarios; pointing out the impacts of a new procedure or policy, and offering opportunity to fix undesirable outcomes. Based on Systems Thinking, iThink models serve as "practice fields", showing you outcomes that could be painful, costly, or embarrassing if discovered in reality. |
"iThink and Systems Thinking may well be the tools we need to bring about fundamental improvements in healthcare delivery systems that we must achieve." —Jim Rogers, Advance Management Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What if you radically increased sales and marketing efforts without adding network bandwidth? Website hits and download demands would go up (good), networks would go down (bad). iThinkhelps you identify key leverage points for improving business performance without losing sight of unintended consequences. Going beyond spreadsheets and other linear approaches to business planning, iThink provides a whole system or big picture view of your entire operations. These views are based on dynamic modeling and Systems Thinking; all points of a system are included and can be examined or changed in any order. You avoid making decisions that have negative impacts on seemingly unrelated processes. |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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iThink is a powerful tool for communicating interdependencies between processes and problems. Your entire business team will understand the variables that impact your business. Shared insight enables teams to work together, further ensuring that decisions are fully implemented and mitigating risk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Use iThink to:
| "Our leadership uses iThink to work through scenarios and discuss new ideas. Its always better to test assumptions than to make a guess.” —Martin Fernandes, Dow Chemical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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