Sidebar: The core team's view of "parts behind schedule" |
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| This picture is a simplified version of a causal loop diagram produced by the Epsilon core team. The key problem is the central concern, "parts behind schedule." At the left are a series of forces (many involving exponential growth) that contribute to increasing numbers of part changes and late decisions. At the right are many of the "fixes" that the conventional system uses to "solve" the parts behind schedule problem, and the unintended consequences of those fixes (staffing shortfalls, the taking up of supplier time to help engineering) that actually make the problem worse. Adapted from "A Framework and Methodology for Linking Individual and Organizational Learning Applications in TQM and Product Development," by Daniel H. Kim (1993, MIT Ph.D. dissertation, p. 282-296). |
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