A remarkably successful community-scale, whole sector, improvement system in Jönköping County, Sweden.
They use a simple diagram to make sense of their philosophy and methods. They call it the Diamond.
The driver for them is learning. A-F are main domains of focused learning and improvement.
The constraint (not the goal) is finance. They view finance as matters of affordability and sustainability, not profit and growth.
digraph { layout=dot rankdir=TB overlap=false concentrate=false bgcolor=lightblue // splines=" " node [shape=box style=box style=filled] label="\n \nInnovation\n& Learning\nWithin\nConstraints" "Innovation\n& Learning"-> {A B C D E F} -> "Good\nFinance" }
They explicitly use Deming's model a business as a system to understand how to integrate learning and change with strategy, operations, and support.
An elaboration on Deming's famous "Model of a System."
The massively important fact is that Deming's model of a system is isomorphic with Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. Experience with one informs experience with the other.