Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is about the balance of diverse and converse thinking, helping to discover the connectivity and common ground from the differences, and digging into the root causes and solving problems radically.
Systems thinking involves a technique of using knowledge from various branches of engineering and science to introduce technological innovations into the planning and development stages of a system. It is a method of holistic understanding and a point of view, not to be identified with any particular substantive area.Key principles of systems thinking:
-Holistic perspective: Systems engineers study many situations in the framework of more than one system or a whole hierarchy of systems of steadily increasing generality.
-Interdisciplinary approach: Systems engineering puts separate techniques and bodies of knowledge together to achieve a prescribed goal in an effective manner. It uses knowledge from various branches of engineering and science.
-Focus on objectives: At each stage, the systems engineer is likely to ask both why and how, rather than merely how.
-Dealing with complexity: Systems are large and complex, and their component parts interact so extensively that a change in one part is likely to affect many others.
-Stochastic inputs: The inputs are essentially random functions of time, although they may exhibit statistical regularities. One cannot expect to foresee exactly what the system will be exposed to in actual operation, and its performance must be evaluated as a statistical average of the responses to a range of possible inputs.
In organizations, systems consist of people, structures, and processes that work together to make an organization healthy. Look at the business from an integral perspective rather than attempting to understand it from a sum of the parts, and understand how the parts fit as in sub-systems.
Systems Thinking is about the balance of diverse and converse thinking, helping to discover the connectivity and common ground from the differences, and digging into the root causes and solving problems radically.
