New Paradigm of Systems Thinking

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“Paradigm is an example or pattern of something; a model” (Oxford, 2013, p. 1). The business environment in later 20th and early 21st century is fundamentally different from organizations in the earlier 20th century. New information, communication, and automation technologies are changing the roles of organizational staff, the organizational product output, and the approach of the consumer toward the organization’s products (Walsh, Meyer & Claudia, 2006). Knowledge management is a key production factor in value creation, capital equipment, funding, empowering employees, identifying issues, and solving problems. The logic value for knowledge-based work includes perception skills, attentiveness, and decision-making includes human capital investments in formal education to accumulate wealth (Walsh, Meyer & Claudia, 2006). Organizations and employees who do not maintain education skills are supplanted by automation or outsourcing. Another organizational design limitation results from global diversity. Therefore a new paradigm of system thinking incorporates the process for incorporating the new technologies and global diversity into organizational theory and design.
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The geographical boundaries of any country are no longer a competitive advantage. The organizational landscape is global and for “many firms, competitive advantage lies in their ability to coordinate disaggregated and globally dispersed value chains” (Walsh, Meyer & Claudia, 2006, p. 662). Changes resulting from technology permit firms to disassemble the value chain and distribute their operations worldwide. The reconnection of organization theory to the critical problems facing the world challenges firms to “surface, question, and change some of our core...

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