Ernie: Outstanding article. I would like to re-format both to hard copy and for my particular file system Any advice on how to do this, given the fact that access to the article is via pdf ? I'd like to re-format into plain text like this e-mail. Then it would always be available to me to refer to as needed and to send to others. Thanks Billy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- In a message dated 11/6/2009 1:55:39 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
A brilliant analysis from another public mailing list I'm on; I agree completely with the summary, but would point out that it applies just as much to economic and political systems as it does to medicine or technology. -- Ernie P. Begin forwarded message: From: "Ken Ganshirt @ Yahoo" <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Date: November 6, 2009 11:06:34 AM PST To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Subject: [FoRK] How Complex Systems Fail Reply-To: Friends of Rohit Khare <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > A short paper; 18 significant points in four pages. I found this to be a very interesting analysis. Some of the points are immediately obvious. Some of the points are a bit counterintuitive, or at least argue against common practice but are on the money in spite of that ... or perhaps because of it. He's talking about medical systems but it applies equally to any complex system. It's a paper that every CIO should be forced to read once a month, forever. It should be considered the stone tablet for post hoc analysis teams. And probably should be required reading for every project manager. For 18 short points there is a tremendous amount of meat in this. Seriously good thinking. _http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf_ (http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf) ...ken... __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork = _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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