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Design
Published in Wanda Grimsgaard, Design and Strategy, 2023
Systems thinking is a holistic approach of understanding the complexity of the world, a way to investigate factors and interactions and analyse the way that a system’s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems (Goodman n/d). It is a powerful tool for successful delivery of complex projects where there are many stakeholders and many possible solutions (Government office for science 2012). Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems theory and systems science.
Management Theories
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s Reference and Study Guide, 2020
Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science and is a framework by which one can investigate or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result. In this theory, an organization is considered and treated as a system.
Engineering leadership
Published in Riadh Habash, Green Engineering, 2017
The concept had been developed by Professor Jay W. Forrester at MIT Sloan School of Management. Many theories associated with systems theory come from its mathematical offshoots, but general ST applications and advancements can be seen in disciplines ranging from medicine and engineering to psychology, political science, and art (Haines 1998). Thus, the ST approach even from its historical origin point is complex of science with possibility to understand reality from more than one point. It is a method of critical thinking by which relationships between the system’s parts are analyzed in order to realize a situation for better decision-making.
Conceptual framework for enabling PPP project sustainability: a system thinking and modelling
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2023
Xueqing Wang, Qin Zhang, Dan Wang, Henry J. Liu, Michael C. P. Sing
System thinking, based on system theory, describes a holistic approach that views an organization as a series of interconnected subsystems comprising people, processes and technologies, which work together to achieve common goals (Kapsali 2011). The foundation of system thinking has changed from a closed to an open system (Bertalanffy 1976; Wheeler and Checkland 2000; Meadows 2008). Fundamentally, a system contains element, interrelation and function/purpose (Bertalanffy 1976; Meadows 2008; Checkland 2012). Notably, the connections between an open system and the external environment can be viewed as the fourth part.
Developing a generic model of Gresham’s law for qualitative analyses
Published in International Journal of General Systems, 2023
Marianne Synnes Emblemsvåg, Jan Emblemsvåg
Systems theory focuses on the relations between the parts, and how they work together as a whole. The way the parts are organized and how they interact with each other, determines the properties of that system. The behavior of the system is independent of the properties of the parts. This often referred to as a holistic approach to understanding phenomena (Chikere and Nwoka 2015).