Tools for Systems Thinkers: Getting Into Systems Dynamics… and Bathtubs
Why should you learn to use systems thinking?
Albert Rutherford • The Systems Thinker - Mental Models
The concept of wholeness is integral to a systems thinking approach. A system is more than the sum of its parts—it's defined by the interaction of its parts. To understand how a system works, you have to study not the individual elements but the linkages between them. When you start thinking in systems, you can then spot opportunities for change. B... See more
Systems Thinking vs Design Thinking, What’s the Difference?
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