Your boss, the Manager of Project Managers, is reading a book written by W. Edwards Deming called The New Economics and struggling to understand the practical application of Dr. Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). After reading several chapters, your boss is convinced of the need to transform the project teams from the current system of hierarchical functional management into a thriving, systemically focused organization.

In reading The New Economics, your boss sees the need for "transformed" project managers. However, your boss is struggling with the following statement from the fourth chapter:

"The first step is transformation of the individual. This transformation is discontinuous. It comes from understanding of the system of profound knowledge. The individual, transformed, will perceive new meaning to his life, to events, to numbers, to interactions between people."

Assignment

Your boss assigns you to draft a two-page memo. The first page would summarize the System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). The second page would propose an experiential learning program for project teams to understand and apply the SoPK. The second page would summarize how SoPK could be introduced and applied within the project teams.

Note: This assignment may have implications for your pending promotion to Senior Project Manager.

Use available resources and references, including https://deming.org/explore/sopk/.