Massimo Curatella

Category: systems thinking

  • The Pleasure of Connecting Knowledge

    It’s nice to find somebody else treating the topics that you love in a clear and entertaining way. The post The Pleasure of Connecting Knowledge appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • To Clarify Make The System Visible First

    Luck is not the wisest choice in sensemaking. The post To Clarify Make The System Visible First appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • How to decide if to rebuild or adapt a new system

    In very complicated systems, if you discover that the update is more convenient than the rebuild you might save a lot of time and resources. The post How to decide if to rebuild or adapt a new system appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • The Knowledge Creations Process

    Can we brand a thinking process? Think about a toy brick, a 2-by-4 piece. It’s standard, created with high precision to respects specific dimensions, shapes and feature. Now think about what you can do with… The post The Knowledge Creations Process appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Knowing the Pieces Before the Assembly

    functions and their potential for connection, it could be inefficient or, worst, harmful. The post Knowing the Pieces Before the Assembly appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Visualize the system to better manage

    The phases of inventory and mapping are crucial to make a system visible. Any serious management and leadership effort as well as a design intervention should always rely on a careful and accurate system mapping…. The post Visualize the system to better manage appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Stock resources when not needed

    And use them during time of poverty. But how much to stock? What’s the right cost today for richness I will have on an unknown Future? The post Stock resources when not needed appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Storytelling to face uncertainty and complexity

    It’s a way to work, productively and provocatively, without knowing exactly what the work is that you have to do. The post Storytelling to face uncertainty and complexity appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Make The System Visible

    A design principle to understand how a system works and how making specific choices generates scenarios and consequences. The post Make The System Visible appeared first on Massimo Curatella.

  • Living in Information by Jorge Arango, book review

    There is a strong parallel between the characteristics and the influences of physical places on our lives and what worlds of information living in immaterial digital existences are having on them. The post Living in Information by Jorge Arango, book review appeared first on Massimo Curatella.