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definitely involves austerity as the main characteristic, in exchange for a credit line that was headed
towards their economies.
In starting a TRIPOD Beta tree that diagrammatically represents the “accident” as it has evolved so far
it is important to create “Trios” ,Tripods, which are formed by three elements:
(a) The Object which has the potential of “receiving” change-mostly unwanted –from
(b) the change agent and which ,if the “Barriers” are not proved effective will lead to an
(c) outcome-event which will definitely be in favor of no one. Any investigation where TRIPOD
methodology is applied aims at Barriers identification , which are afterwards categorized, either as
“Failed”, ”Missing” or “Effective”, if they did succeed in stopping the accident sequence.
Missing Barriers require enormous changes and consume time, while failed Barriers are easier for
mitigation. Failed Barriers attribute their failure to stop the accident from happening to an Active
Failure that can easily be spotted. The important part of the investigation though commences with the
“hunting” after Preconditions, environmental, situational, psychological ‘system states’ or ‘states of
mind’ that promote Immediate Causes.
The necessity to distinguish Preconditions while investigating is the “whistleblower” speaking up about
the Organisational Cultures involved into the accident. Therefore not only can we reach the underlying
causes behind the failure more efficiently but we also have enough hints and raw data about corporate
cultures that definitely need change.
TRIPOD investigations can extend to include the analysis for up to five trios, Tripods that can be
managed, but effort is needed for the selection of Tripods which is relevant with the interests of the
party that asked for the investigation.
Coming to today we are definitely in front of a rifting apart risk of the Single European Market, as
Banking Institutions within the participant member countries of European Union, at the moment, share
the credit rate that equals that of their home state’s Sovereign credit rate. So a potential object that
needs to be protected in the near future is the single market project plus the single currency vision. In
a TRIPOD Beta tree that is depicted in the image that follows:

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