Systems Thinking in the Public Sector

...is the title of a book by John Seddon. As usual I'm simply going to quote from a few pages...

Standardization constrains a system's ability to absorb variety.

...the test of a good measure: does it help us understand and improve performance.

focus on costs and costs will rise, focus on flow and costs will fall.

There are two kinds of customer demand: value demand and failure demand.

Waste is man made.

People's behaviour is a product of their system.