Slide 1 : www.main.vanthinking.com Using Scientific Principles In Management Why do we want to use scientific principles in management?
Why do we NOT want to use scientific principles in management?
How was science incorrectly applied to management problems?
How can science be applied correctly to management problems?
Scientific Thinking and Management
Slide 2 : The Benefits of Using Scientific Principles The Century-Proven Success
Management and Business Became Ever more Complex
The Rise of the Knowledge Economy
Knowing is Power (and Profit) www.main.vanthinking.com Problem Solving
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Generation
Slide 3 : www.main.vanthinking.com First Try a Failure – History Lesson Fashionable to be “scientific” - early 20th century
Scientific Management – Taylor
Operations Research – the application of scientific method
Not able to reproduce the success of science
The future of operations research is past – Russell
First Oil Crisis – a Painful Lesson to Learn
Slide 4 : www.main.vanthinking.com Alternatives to Scientific Method Operations Research Development
Systems Thinking
Cybernetics
Development of Knowledge Management Holistic vs Reductionist It worked - BUT... Lower Productivity
Lower Quality WHY? Read an Article...
Slide 5 : www.main.vanthinking.com Appropriate Application of Scientific Principles Failure was because of ... Inappropriate Scientific Productiveness Features
Inappropriate Scientific Capability Features
Slide 6 : www.main.vanthinking.com Scientific Productiveness features a) Objectivity (Reproducibility not Possible)
b) Boundaries (Hard vs Soft)
c) Initial Values
d) Assumptions
e) Reductions
Slide 7 : Scientific Capability features a) Appropriate Scientific Productiveness features
b) Appropriate Approach to the Nature of the Problem
c) Appropriate Way to Reason (Logic) www.main.vanthinking.com Science starts with a problem ...Karl Popper Obtain:
Ebook describing these in detail – How do Scientists Think?
Course that teaches you how to naturally think scientifically
Slide 8 : www.main.vanthinking.com Example: Scientific Support to Decision Makers