System Dynamics - Keinze's Blog. Today, I’d like to give some insight in the terms system dynamics and systems thinking that I’ve come across in some posts, that claim to be a mind-blowing one fits-all solution that make you experience that you’ve done all wrong before.
Let’s start with Wikipedia: Systems thinking is the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole […] based on the belief that the component parts of a system can best be understood in the context of relationships with each other and with other systems, rather than in isolation. Systems thinking focuses on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. Here’s a definition from Barry Richmond, who coined the term in 1987: Systems Thinking is the art and science of making reliable inferences about behavior by developing an increasingly deep understanding of underlying structure. Systems thinking uses computer simulation and a variety of diagrams and graphs to model, illustrate, and predict system behavior.
Purpose, Systems Thinking, and Energized Enterprises. I’m always looking for frameworks to use in analyzing and improving organizational performance, and my latest find is Donella Meadow’s “Thinking in systems: a primer,” a good read for anyone who manages complex systems.
Actually if you are managing an organization of any size, you are managing a complex system–you just may not think about it that way which is why the primer is an important read. Systems thinking never gained a lot of traction in the business world because practitioners weren’t able to make the concepts and practices simple and practical enough for most businesses and executives to adopt them. Meadow’s work provides a fairly basic “leg up” to understanding systems thinking. In the interest of keeping things simple, in this post, I’m focusing on one element of a system–its purpose. Meadows defines a system as “an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something.”
In other words, they aren’t applying systems thinking. What is Systems Thinking? - Systems Thinking in Health Promotion. Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC: July 2014. I’ve been working on this article for a week.
The way I create articles is to draw from graphics and articles I’ve created in the past, and to point to articles, videos and graphics created by others who communicate an idea more effectively than I do. Earlier this week I received the newsletter from the Making Learning Connected MOOC, #CLMOOC, which I’ve been following. This week’s assignment encourages participants to “hack their writing”. In the newsletter these suggestions were offered: In Make Cycle #4 we invite you to “Hack Your Writing.”
We imagine there are multiple entry points for this week’s make cycle. As I read this, I said, “That’s what I’ve been doing since I started writing this blog in 2005. The front page of both major newspapers featured “Violence in Chicago” this week. However, not much has changed. This is a long article. I've hacked Gene's video to copy this graphic, then to create views of each element. In my own graphic, I show this as the analysis stage. Systems Thinking & Leverage Points : Interaction Institute for Social Change.
June 14, 2010 |theory.isthereason.com| One of our consultants just wrote the following e-mail to our team here at IISC.
I thought it would be a good idea to put the question out to our readers – any thoughts? Hello Colleagues, I am wondering if you might have ideas about two things: 1. 2. Context: The group has gathered a lot of anecdotal information, the intention is to gather additional information on best practices and research, however, we are not there yet. Thanks for any thoughts you might have on this! Www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MakingTheConnections-Booklet-Wellesley.pdf. Social Capital Markets. Office of the Pima County School Superintendent - Systems Thinking.