Modern businesses and organizations are constantly confronted with the need for transformation. Whether it's adapting to emerging technologies, responding to market shifts or navigating unprecedented ...

In recent years, systems thinking—a discipline that helps us understand interdependent structures of dynamic systems—has emerged as a powerful force for change in the philanthropic world. Borne out of ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3- Good health and wellbeing. The paradigms of action theory and control theory dominate both science and practice, based on the belief ...

Over the past decades, the business environment has undergone a profound shift toward greater complexity, higher levels of uncertainty and information overload as the new norm. Yet, while we have more ...

The purpose of this 5-week long course is to introduce engineering students to system dynamics and its applications in addressing ill-defined and complex development projects. Throughout this course, ...

The room hummed with giggles and mutters of “one, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war,” as a few dozen educators thumb-wrestled their way through a presentation on systems thinking. Sound strange?

To solve a puzzle, you never just look at one piece of it. So why do we try to tackle the most complex problems of modern life in such a piecemeal fashion? Zeynep Tufekci: “It's looking at the world ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

Dynamic systems pays attention to patterns of change over time. Source: Drawing by A. Danvers “Personal histories are processes of change in time, and the change itself is one of the things ...

There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.