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The pace of change
Sjors Timmer, The Community Workshop Sessions ‘13
1. Continuous improvement 2. The pace of change 3. Building strength
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
[Continuous Improvement] is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to work they go there to think !
- Taiichi Ohno
Author of Toyota Production System
The pace of change
Every form of civilisation is a wise equilibrium between firm substructure and roaring liberty !
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessey
The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -
Pace of change
People
Culture
Organisation
Infrastructure
Interface
Interactions
Time to complete feedback loop
People
Culture
Organisation
Infrastructure
Interface
Interactions
In a healthy society each level is allowed to operate at its own pace, safely sustained by the slower levels below and kept invigorated by the livelier levels above. !
– Stewart Brand
The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
Pace layers in action
Via: http://jonty.co.uk/bits/dagstandards-currentjobs.png
People
Culture
Culture
Infrastructure
Via: http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/happy-birthday-campus-london-youve.html
Infrastructure
Every form of civilisation company is a wise equilibrium between firm substructure and roaring liberty !
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessey
The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
The Five Whys The core idea of Five Whys is to tie investments directly to the prevention of the most problematic symptoms.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669738/to-get-to-the-root-of-a-hard-problem-just-ask-why-five-times
Six whys
People
Culture
Organisation
Infrastructure
Interface
Interactions
Every why brings us closer to the root cause but also closer to a layer where things are harder and slower to change
At no point did we drop everything to focus solely on training. Instead, we made incremental improvements to the process constantly !
- Eric Ries
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669738/to-get-to-the-root-of-a-hard-problem-just-ask-why-five-times
Building strength
Archiving the models allowed architects to keep the traces of creativity […]; de-archiving them meant they could rediscover those traces of design invention that time had left intact. !
- Albena Yaneva
Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an ethnography of design, 2009, page 65
http://www.archined.nl/en/reviews/2010/engels/blue-foam/
The biggest part of our work [...] disappears automatically. [...] But you can't look at these designs as waste. They're ideas; they will survive in books. !
- Rem Koolhaas
We're Building Assembly-Line Cities and Buildings, Der Spiegel 2011
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/05/oma-book-machine-at-the-architectural-association/
OMA book machine
What can we do in the digital world?
It’s not about improving products, it’s about building a system that enables products to be improved continuously
Thank you
Sjors Timmer, The Community Workshop Sessions ‘13