Systems Thinking: Use It to Address Wicked Problem Situations
Systems thinking encourages us to explore?inter-relationships,?perspectives and boundaries.
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.
The systems thinking approach?contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies systems by breaking them down into their separate elements.
Systems thinking can be used in any area of research and has been applied to the study of medical, environmental, political, economic, human resources, and educational systems, among many others.
Systems thinking is especially trenchant when applied to address?complex or wicked problem situations. That’s because complex problems aren’t remedied be any one actor, any more than a complex system can be fully understood from only one perspective.
Systems thinking is an essential skill for systems engineers because it is shared with many disciplines and provides a key intellectual underpinning for systems engineering.
Adopting a systems approach takes persistence and curiosity. Many people have thought systemically all their lives. But for most, the jump to systems thinking requires time, practice, curiosity and intentionality.
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And then, once you get the hang of it, you might feel like the sole systems thinker in a linear thinking organization – a lonely place.
Still, for systems engineering, the benefits are considerable for developing a systems thinking shift of mind, such as:
Want to learn more? Tonex offers Systems Thinking Training, a 2-day course that covers the theory, rational, tools, and techniques associated with systems thinking.
Systems thinking training course concentrates on determining the interconnections between the various components of a system and manufacturing them into a coherent perspective of the whole.?
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