Adaptive strategy helps companies to:

• Limit rescheduling to the affected demands/resources

• Regularly update the forecasts

• Delay the implementation of new decisions to allow time for scheduling improvement

• Identify complex features of the environment

What statement is INCORRECT about Systems thinking?

• Systems Thinking requires you to break things apart

• Systems Thinking is a way of thinking that connects everything

• With systems thinking, we study a situation, its structure, and look below the surface to understand the causes of the situations

• Systems thinking is a holistic way to investigate factors and interactions that could contribute to a possible outcome

In order to increase the organization’s value, we have to give the priority to satisfied agents

• True

• False

_____ is the criterion which occasionally causes butterfly effect.

• Nonequilibrium

• Co-evolution

• Emergence

• Non-linearity

Which are NOT one of the 5 characteristics of learning organization?

• Systems Thinking

• Personal Mastery

• Mental Models

• Building Shared Organizations

Which step is NOT in IFE Matrix development:

• Assign a weight that ranges from 0.0 (all- important) to 1.0 (not-important) to each factor

• List key internal factors as identified in the internal-audit process

• Multiply each factor’s weight by its rating

• Calculate the total weighted score for the organization.

What method is commonly used to find the root of the cause?

• MAD

• 5 Whys

• Work breakdown structure (WBS)

• MSE

What is a Mental Model?

• Mental models are deeply ingrained fantasies, videos, or facts of how we see the world

• A blueprint for psychiatric facilities

• Mental models are deeply ingrained images, pictures, or assumptions of how we see the world.

• A mental disorder

We can partition a complex system into a number of subsystems

• True

• False

__________is a consequence of complexity and increases with complexity

• Uncertainty

• Adaptibility

• Autonomy

• Multi-Agent System