business environment analysis industrial management institute by morteza imanirad 1388

Business Environment Analysis

Industrial Management Institute

By Morteza Imanirad

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Figure 1.1 The business organisation as a transformation system

Figure 1.2 The firm in its environment

• Business organization

• national environment Business organization

• International environment

Figure 1.3 Two levels of environment

Key ‘Post Modern’ Assumptions

• Our understanding of reality is socially constructed

• Multiple realities exist about the same ‘thing’

• Impossible to separate object from subject

• Know your frame!

Skills for Leadership (c) Gareth Morgan

Do “The Pig”

Gareth Morgan, Imaginization

ontologywhat is real ?

Objective Subjective

Internal

A posteriori

Values

Qualitative

External

A priori

Facts

Quantitative

Epistemology How do we know?

Objective Subjective

Post-Modern

Perception

Experience

Emotion

Patterns

Modern

Reason

Evidence

Valid

Laws


Multiple Views

• What do you see?


“You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”. Thomas Kuhn

“Believing is seeing.” Karl Weick


Framing and Reframing

• Frames are sets of assumptions and mental models that act as a window on the world.

• Frames are both conscious/explicit and unconscious/implicit.

• Frames determine what we see and how we interpret what we see.

• We need skills in engaging multiple models and learning how to reframe situation.

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what is it that determines what you see ?

هستیم • که باهستیم • حالی چه درایم • نشسته کجا•..........

Lighting makes you see whatever it wants you to see . It can hide stuff that exist.


Traps of Frames: Psychic Prisons

• Taken-for-granted frames render us blind to new types of data.

• We tend to seek out data that is consistent with our frames.

• When we believe in our frames we tend to ignore, distort or deny information that is inconsistent with what the frame suggests should be there.


Surface Assumptions and Ask Questions

• Through Asking Questions you can Reveal the Taken-for-Granted Assumptions that Limit Thinking on any Topic

• e.g. the 5 Why’s?• Why?

• Why?– Why?

» Why?» Why?


Morgan’s Five Why’sIn the first box describe the situation/ problem or issue. Ask Why? Put the answer in

the next box and repeat the process.

– Why?

– Why?

– Why?

– Why?

– Why?

Situation

Answer to Why?

Answer to Why?

Answer to Why?

Answer

Answer to Why?


Linear Causation

A B C D = E


Multiple Causation

A

B C

D

E

There is often a tendency to choose one and revert back to linear causation models


Systems Thinking

A

B

C

DE

Patterns Symmetry Network of

Interconnections Nothing exists

independent of the relationships that exist among the other components

Two grand paradigms

• Newtonian Model • Quantum physics model

Different approaches to environment

• Individualistic approach ( newtonian model)– Win-lose approach– Win-win approach

• Spiritualistic approach (Quantum physics model)

Newtonian Model

• Newtonian models conceives universe as little billiard balls• Ideas such individualism and replaceable parts in industrial

settings emerged from Newton’s idea of atomism• Aloneness, isolation, objectivism and positivism all are

emerged from Newtonian perspective.• Environment is something external to the firm • When we act like a collection of bouncing billiard balls in a

box, we're often acting against each other. There's a lot of conflict, competition, jealousy, grudges, and anger

• today's business culture is operating from the four negative motivations of fear, greed, anger, and self-assertion

Quantum physics paradigm• Universe as concretized balls that take no different • When two quantum systems meet,they combine and overlap

their total identity.• All the patterns of dynamic energy within these systems change

dramatically in relation to each other, leading to the emergence of a

• " It's not separation; it's integration. It's not isolation; it's an understanding that we're all part of one great big interwoven system

• You don't get the same kind of conflict, grudges, and anger because you've all become part of one system working together

• You grow together and you create together

business environment analysis industrial management institute by morteza imanirad 1388

Documents

leadership slide

c gareth morganskills

imaginization slide

levels of environment

facts quantitative slide

transformation system

karl weick slide

leadership systems