Question

Summarize the general themes or summary of the chapter Systems Thinking Gharajedaghi, J. (2011) / Chapter One: How the Game is Evolving

Answer 1

Business success is depend on competitive advantage which is battered by the imitation, sub optimization and the inertia of organizations to react to the technological changes. Thus, there are five levels of forces which erode competitive advantage, such as, ‘Imitation’ which is the basic distinction and significant for any industry for the faster time-to-market performance, greater product variety which helps in faster response to change; ‘Inertia’ generates reaction to the technological breakthroughs; ‘sub optimization’ shows tendency to push other’s strength better; ‘Change of the game’ sometimes results success into failure; ‘shift of paradigm’ occurs and learning or unlearning happens and helps in overcoming the frustration; Organizations becomes multi-minded and deal with interdependent set of variables due to ‘interdependency and available choice’ and to understand this , it requires system thinking along with the analytical thinking.