**Pattern Name:**
Discover Leverage Points
**Introduction:** Not all changes in a system have the same impact.
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
Complex systems are counter intuitive and not amenable to unaided problem solving. Many systems are complex and many simple systems are parts of complex systems.
_Russell Ackoff, "Doing the wrong thing righter is wronger."_
**PROBLEM:**
Quality Management Methods do not have methods to effectively locate high impact changes. Even when leverage points are found, they are too frequently pushed in the wrong direction, causing more harm than good.
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
Continuously use Causal Loop Modeling and System Dynamics Modeling to locate leverage points in organizational systems ahead of designing, implementing, or improving systems.
**Actions:**
Learn enterprise scale causal loop modeling and use it regularly.
> It will be easier in smaller enterprises!
**Consequences:**
Greater impact for limited changes that can be made.
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