MARIAM MAI NADA BASSEL Submitted to:

BAKR SHAALAN SAKR TAREK Dr/ AHMED EL-DAMATI

 What is a system
 Learning organization
How to build
LO Importance
 Peter Senge
 Fifth Discipline
 System Thinking
Components
How to practice in workplace
 System
A set of elements or parts that is coherently organized and interconnected in a
pattern or structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviors, often
classified as its “function” or “purpose”.

Elements Inter-Connection Function

Group of inter-related processes

 What is learning organization
An organization that actively creates,
in every organization facilitates the
captures, transfers, and mobilizes
learning of its members and
knowledge to enable it to adapt to a
continuously transforms itself.
changing environment.
Building a learning organization
 Importance of a learning organization

Increased Productivity Employee Satisfaction

Efficiency Gains Increased Profit Continuous Improvement

Developing Leaders Adapt to Change

 Peter Senge

• Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems

scientist.
• Senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-
faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute
• The founder of the Society for Organizational Learning.
• Peter Senge has written several books and articles
throughout his career.
 The Fifth Discipline
The Fifth Discipline (1990)
The art and practice of the learning organization,
Doubleday, New York.

• A comprehensive guide to create learning

organizations – workplaces that nurture innovation
and personal growth.
• Focuses on group problem solving using the systems
thinking method in order to convert companies into
learning organizations.
• One of the seminal management books of the past
seventy-five years.
• More Than One Million Copies In Print.
 System Thinking

Cognitive Process of studying and understanding systems of every

kind.

The focus is integrating information from different sources and

different types.

Examines the linkages and interactions between the components

that comprise the entirety of that defined system.
 System Thinking Components

Interconnectedness Synthesis Emergence

Systems
Feedback loops Causality
mapping
How to Practice Systems thinking in the workplace

Identify a
Observe the Understand the
problem to
system problem
solve

Identify
Select solutions
interventions
 We know that a crisis management becomes more complex for a number of reasons

Many people have to work Too much, little or false

together often for the first information all add
time complexity

High levels of uncertainty and Decisions need to be

stress made quickly

We can observe evolving relationships between ideas, people and things during a crisis
So for that reason, crises lend themselves to a systems thinking approach