{"id":2405,"date":"2017-03-27T01:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2017-03-18T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T14:00:11","slug":"and-then-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/03\/and-then-what-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then What Happens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a fundamental question to ask in analyzing and engineering systems. Why don&#8217;t we use it more often?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: We put this into the system.<\/p>\n<p>B: And then what happens?<\/p>\n<p>A: Well, now the system can do this great function for the users.<\/p>\n<p>B: And then what happens?<\/p>\n<p>A: For one thing, the users don&#8217;t call us so often.<\/p>\n<p>B: And then what happens?<\/p>\n<p>A: We have more time to ourselves to do what we want to do.<\/p>\n<p>B: And then what happens?<\/p>\n<p>The conversation can take several twists and turns depending on how A answers. This important thing is that B repeatedly asks the question.<\/p>\n<p>It is a simple question\u2014only four words. The words are easy to say. I often wonder why more people don&#8217;t ask the question more often. It provides useful answers. Of course A can become quite irritated, but then again, some persons hate it when you ask them anything.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed with caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is a fundamental question to ask in analyzing and engineering systems. Why don&#8217;t we use it more often? A: We put this into the system. B: And then what happens? A: Well, now the system can do this great function for the users. B: And then what happens? A: For one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,32,48,247,58,50],"tags":[120,154,170,248,178,172],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-communication","category-general-systems-thinking","category-questions","category-systems","category-thinking","tag-adults","tag-communication","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-questions","tag-systems","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}