> Is there somebody working in the same area ? Has already somebody
> developed a Learning Software Organisation Model ?
To me the most motivating part of "The Fifth Discipline" is the idea that
anyone who is a part of a learning organization has the opportunity to
learn, grow, advance, be heard, and contribute to the benefit of the
business. If that is a significant basis for the ideas presented in the
book, then it seems like the most important thing for any organization is
to further these characteristics and it may be less significant what
particular kind of business the organization does. Also, I'm told that
simply being or going toward being a learning organization is not an easy
task, even with approval of management.
Emphasis of the "business applications" or "process uses" of being a
learning organization might not fully realize the starting ideas.
>From a very different viewpoint - it seems to me that the mental model and
systems thinking disciplines could benefit from principles or discoveries
or clarifications of software development such as object-oriented design
and use case modeling. These related approaches could make understanding
complicated systems easier, since they see individual and definable
objects interacting to accomplish the tasks of dynamic systems. Systems
dynamics is apparently not easy to distribute to non-mathematical
thinkers; whereas use case modeling may very well be.
I'm sorry if I'm "raising my voice"; I'm hoping that others will see these
comments and the information may be of use to them!
-- Have a nice day John Paul Fullerton jpf6745@acs.tamu.edu