Principles. System Analysis. Military. TOC. In2:InThinking Network InSights. Loops. TEDxDirigo - Eli Stefanski - Making Systems Thinking Sexy. The Paradigm Shift of Systems Theory. I.
The Perspective of Systems Theory and its Relationship to the Traditional Mainstream Sciences, and its Approach to Mental Illness “Systems theory” is the name given to both a broad perspective and a large body of knowledge which has formed through the original efforts of many men and women in the last century, all of whom were working under the impulses of an important epistemological paradigm shift. Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems. Make it Obsolete « Essays « Pete Michaud. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller Fuller was, among many other interests, a systems theorist. When he said you have to make parts of a system obsolete to change anything he was talking about social change, and perhaps market changes. You can’t just kill the Big Four record companies by beating them at their own, rigged game.