A large number of organizations go for ISO standards and
CMMI Appraisals each year. A very large number of employees opt for training in
systems thinking and process improvement. All these trainings and implications
have got their own advantages, which, when people attend training they realize,
but a week or so after the training, they are back to normal!
I myself have been subject to many process improvement and systematization and systems thinking training, but effect did last more than 3
weeks at most. I always wanted to follow the approach, but somewhere deep down
there was reluctance to do so. I didn’t want to be tied or may be answerable to
myself at the end of the day. Hence, it wasn’t an easy deal.
Systems thinking came easily to my peers, who day after day
kept on filling the templates, recording their works task after task and hence,
completing all that was there SYSTEMATICALLY. I somehow managed to complete,
because there’s a part played by forgetfulness.
It was then that I started playing with various tools to
help me. The most helpful was having the checklists right in front of me, where
I can’t escape filling them, and setting the reminders on my outlook, to further
remind me to work in systems, and moreover, I asked my colleagues to review my
work in accordance to the set systems.
The most useful was the Peer Review. It helped me identify
where my efforts were being diverted from the systems and how to overcome them.
Slowly, and steady I started following systems, and now it’s been a while since
I have been up to date with the systematized processes.
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