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  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/prefer-interventions-that-alter-feedback-not-just-output",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9163",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Prefer interventions that alter feedback, not just output",
  "summary": "Fixing a stock once may not change the flows that recreate it.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "After removing the immediate backlog, defect or debt, identify and change the inflow, outflow capacity or feedback rule that regenerates the condition.",
  "limits": [
    "Leverage-point and information-value heuristics are prompts, not guaranteed effect sizes. Test interventions, monitor side effects and stop when evidence changes."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-systems-strategy-and-leverage-thinking"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-592B2C21A3CDE468"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "System dynamics work emphasizes that well-intended interventions can be defeated by feedback-driven system responses, a pattern described as policy resistance.",
      "source_id": "RS-592B2C21A3CDE468",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "A qualitative feedback story is not enough; links, delays and predicted behavior still need empirical or operational checking.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When the same symptom returns after repeated cleanups."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Leverage-point and information-value heuristics are prompts, not guaranteed effect sizes. Test interventions, monitor side effects and stop when evidence changes."
  ],
  "example": "A one-time duplicate cleanup is paired with upstream uniqueness validation and monitoring of new duplicate inflow.",
  "check": "The system has a mechanism that reduces recurrence, not only a cleaner current state.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-592B2C21A3CDE468",
      "title": "System Dynamics Modeling: Tools for Learning in a Complex World",
      "url": "https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2001/08/43-4-system-dynamics-modeling-tools-for-learning-in-a-complex-world/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9163",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9164",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/price-the-next-piece-of-information-before-researching-it"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-28D91C30CEA1CB4A",
      "title": "Systems and strategic leverage: feedback, flow, modularity, robust options, and information value",
      "url": "/collections/systems-and-strategic-leverage-feedback-flow-modularity-robust-options-and-information-value"
    }
  ]
}