The Systems Approach

The happiness and rainbows are never seen at home, only home of others. Proverb companies increasingly must prepare for the changes and challenges facing today's business scenarios presented, where the management responsible for its operation, requires an objective act within its own organizational culture and according to the characteristics of the current scenarios, using the best resources organizational, financial, technical, human and intangible. We can achieve if you used the advantages of the techniques of formal analysis of decisions, the information it makes available to the computer, and therefore, interpretation and management of a comprehensive heuristic. Consider the remarks made by Theodore Levitt, who, we learn from the past to make some progress apparatus: Although one learns and progresses from the past, you run the risk of using obsolete dogmas that are new times. The point is not whether the skills are transferable, but if applicable. This means that now, more than in the past, the essential management skills is not a good memory to remember the beginning as is the usual case in law and medicine, but the ability to determine which is actually the problem and to do that distinguishes the top executive.

Understanding is more important than belief in the dogmas. From here then, that all would-be manager or already in the exercise, consider that an operational definition of management that relates to the concept of management with a number of observable criteria, involves organized activity, objectives, resources, relationships, jobs through others, decisions, systems analysis and evaluation. Consequently, as said Alberto Leon: administrator works for a few goals through others, half organized, estaqblecie4ndo relationships between resources, evaluating and making decisions.

Should not be neglected, which achieve good management has been significant at all times for organizations, but today it is more important than ever due to the size and complexity of modern society, its growing and changing high competitiveness. The cost of a clerical error may be significant in the survival of the company and due to the tremendous interdependence between the elements of social and economic systems, the pair potential is also great rush it. Hence, as is known, the importance of being alert, vigilant and make use of this knowledge to prevent it. All this leads us to reflect the current reality of the administration, especially when based on fundamentals of the concept, systems approach, the formal decision analysis and of course, on a clear understanding of the meaning of human element organizations and social responsibility, Leo Betancourt, insists the matter is noteworthy that modern management is evolutionary, not revolutionary in concept, but has had revolutionary impact on many organizations. A system is a set of interacting and interdependent elements forming a unified whole.

That's why one of the great benefits and usefulness of the concepts of systems is the understanding or perception of complex assemblies. Focus chain of effects, interdependencies and interrelationships, generally leads to better understanding, visualization, and to detect areas that were ignored, this can therefore lead to better decisions and, consequently, to achieve good governance. The good manager who identifies with the systems approach, you know, the basic benefit of the concepts of systems and their models is related to a better understanding of business problems. Hence, it is strongly comment that anyone who recognizes the concept of systems is generally better able to understand the problems of today in light of the events yesterday and selected the alternatives .. However, it is known that is an understanding of the situations may have value in itself for not very useful for the administrator, unless he is able to use it to make predictions about the future .. The manager's job can be considered as the prediction of future consequences (the whole chain of effects) that will produce the decisions made at the present time and under certain circumstances.

Of course, not expected that any manager can display all dependencies and all the chains of effects, because there are an infinite number of interactions and effects in any complex system or situation of decision. However, you may do so within the context of a systems model, can be used to drive an example, the well-known decision tree, the method of Monte Carlo. Remember that the decision tree is designed to continue into the future, as well as the future can be viewed rationally, and incorporated into the description of the states that are considered important factors for the purpose intended. It is therefore important the systems approach, since the systems management can predict without being a witch, you can integrate the different predictions in the model and use it to formulate comprehensive assessments and predictions of alternative actions. Finally, it is important to note, that the dynamic nature of a system is a feature that should be considered when designing and using a system. Every system has its development phase dynamic natural and fairly, to recognize these phases allows management to properly control what happens and use to their advantage the characteristics of these phases.

Every system evolves according to natural order of activities and thought that goes from concept to execution. However,. In order that the concept of the life cycle of the total system to be operationally useful for administrators, should be feasible to assess the status of a system as it progresses through its various stages. Students of the same systems and professional experience indicate that the administrator can extend ideas to reform its system knowledge and operational, to predict developments to assist in the evaluation of alternative courses to include aspects of environmental system in all of them.

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