The Interventions Insights

To identify the symptoms through various interventions and defining the pain areas of large systems or units beyond the scope of an individual, due to environmental or internal changes, is the Large System Intervention. But are we looking at the right system? The way to go about it is, to discard first and foremost the solution and focus on the pain areas. Looking at the pain dispassionately helps to intervene every day at a mindset level and helps to bring about the change. How to intervene the systems? Diagnostic Intervention is a revolutionary approach, whose premise is that the change agent acts as catalysts, making a difference but is not a part of the system. Dialogic Intervention is an evolutionary approach whose premise is to equip people with the capability to take decision, sensing the change, where organization is continuously learning and unlearning. The consultant here is a part of the system. Kodak , failed because of asking wrong marketing...

I would like to use this post and the further threads to help us get a clarity on the Term LSI and a bit into what interventions are? Large system intervention, why do we call it as such? Large - The term large here refers to groups or units that are beyond the scope of an individual's understanding. When we say Large it means that it is not the capability of one person to work on the unit/entity because one person cannot grasps its magnitude, System - we use the term system here because large units or entities interact wth their environments and also interact internally with their parts. In large entities there are two aspects that become part  of the change 1) The interaction with and balance with the external environment 2) the fit of all its internal parts A large system intervention aims to take up two  key aspects,the organisation environment relationship and the interaction of its internal components Interventions - Intervention means to...

Today is my first class of Large Scale Intervention Process . I was not able to attend the class because I was on the way to Mumbai. I didn’t get a train ticket so I have to travel through bus and bus reached Mumbai 3 hrs late. So for this class I didn’t have any idea what happened but I read a chapter of the book my group has assigned for me for the next class. The chapter was on whole system transformation and the book talks about five truths of whole system transformation. I found it very common because most of the OD diagnosing model also talked about these truths. I came to know through the book that there are some 5 to 6 masters in OD who gave these truths and based on these truths anybody can create his/her own model. These five truths are System, Purpose, Journey, Theory, Values .i.e. Every transformation should have systemic view, try to assess the problem with whole system perspective, It should have purpose driven, Transformation should have been proper planned and based...