Re: Ron Moen's SoPK exercise

[demingtw <demingtw@ms17.hinet.net>]

Jim Clauson wrote:
> At the Tacoma Institute conference, Ron Moen 'ran' an exercise to aid in
> our using and applying the lens of the SoPK.
> 
> Ron's words: "The AIM of the exercise is to experience how Dr. Deming's
> System of Profound Knowledge can be used as a lens to view the red bead
> experiment as well as any real-life experience."
 
Thanks for Jim to tell us an experiment in teaching SoPK.

In Taiwan I used to run Foundamentals of Fourth Generation Management by
B. Joiner the same way( group discussion and the presentation of their
group learning and discussions).

It is interesting to notice that in the above-mentioned tapes, there 
are no red beads experiments, so I sometimes adding it after Module 5
and ask the students to discuss it and draw their control charts(even
with midium range chart). Since the students can participate the whole
process of the drama and the *reflections* with operational definition,
it is quite welcomed.

For red bead excercise, I prefer to tell an epic or 50 years of
continual learning from one or two points in 1950 Japan to 14 points in
TNE.

To use SoPK as a len for red bead excercise is interesting but I think
most people need to understand it before the excercise. It might be too
abstract for most students and I like to know the chicken-egg effects of
using SoPK len.(This means there are levels of understanding SoPK
and...)

You can get red bead movie from Bill Scherkenbach's CDs also.(using LCD
projector...)

Speaking of using a len as metaphor of SoPK, it makes me have an
association of a chapter of Einstein's Space & Van Gogh's Sky
(recommanded by WWS): The worlds of color of Newton and goeth: Two
Domains of Reality).

I also used different red bead excercises as a modelling of the
production system to help the students know costing,TOC,simulation and
even so-called beer games and so on(lean thinking and *Win as much as
you can* in WWS's book).

I share with friends of DEN all my cargoes in my briefcase. You may say
that I have a red beads cult.(Refer to my previous mail on 6 sigma).

Hanching Chung
http://www.deming.com.tw
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