Amey Vaze’s Profile

In my consulting journey I keep noticing the same pattern: Leaders rush to fix a specific problem instead of looking at the system as a whole.

Leaders often look into a quality issue, chase a missed deadline or trim a particular cost. They prioritise these quick fixes.

But they don’t step back to see how everything i.e people, processes and technology is connected.

This leads to recurrent problems as the root cause has been overlooked.

The concept of Systems thinking takes care of this as it lets one examine the whole and the relationships between its parts, rather than just individual components.

For eg., Take product rework. It’s rarely just a design flaw. The real causes lie in supply chain inconsistencies, inadequate training, or misaligned processes

A system-led approach recognises how benefits of an innovation in one part of the system can lead to either damage or improvement on another. Thus it leads to enhanced decision making, effective problem solving and innovation for the leaders.

True leadership is rooted in one’s ability to see the bigger picture. Systems thinking allows one to do exactly that.

How often do you step back to connect the dots, not just fix the parts?

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