4) Systems Thinking with Conceptual Blending Systems thinking involves seeing different topics/areas as systems with their own subsystems, that all inform one large system. Below, the right concepts show systems thinking, whereas the left is more-so typical analytical thinking.
Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools that has been developed over the past fifty years, to make the full patterns clearer, and to help us see how to change them effectively.
systems thinking encompasses a large and fairly amorphous body of methods, tools, and principles, all oriented to looking at the interrelatedness of forces, and seeing them as part of a common process.
The essence of the discipline of systems thinking lies in a shift of mind: seeing interrelationships rather than linear cause-effect chains, and seeing processes of change rather than snapshots
