Six key questions in whole systems thinking, set out by Daniel Christian Wahl

One way to define the word ‘system’ is as a set of interconnected elements that together form a coherent pattern we can refer to as a ‘whole’.

Such a system exhibits properties of the whole that emerge out of the interactions and relationships of the individual elements. This definition could be applied to a molecule, a cell, a human being, a commu... See more

Here are six questions to contemplate when dealing with systems:

• What is the system in question and how are we defining what belongs to the system and what does not?


• What is the wider context that the system in question operates in?


• What are the key agents whose interactions and relationships define the system structure and drive the system’s behaviou

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