What is Systems Thinking? Expert Perspectives from the WPI Systems Thinking Colloquium of 2 October 2019

Perspectives on Systems Thinking in Engineering

Time to Shift from Systems Thinking-Talking to Systems Thinking-Action; Comment on “Constraints to Applying Systems Thinking Concepts in Health Systems: A Regional Perspective from Surveying Stakeholders in Eastern Mediterranean Countries”

A recent International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) article by Fadi El-Jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) about Systems Thinking (ST). The study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

Systems thinking.

Evaluation is one of many fields where "systems thinking" is popular and is said to hold great promise. However, there is disagreement about what constitutes systems thinking. Its meaning is ambiguous, and systems scholars have made diverse and divergent attempts to describe it. Alternative origins include: von Bertalanffy, Aristotle, Lao Tsu or multiple aperiodic "waves." Some scholars describ...

Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring systems thinking within teams

This paper describes ongoing research that seeks to develop an empirical basis for collaborative systems thinking, defined as “an emergent behavior of teams resulting from the interactions of team members and utilizing a variety of thinking styles, design processes, tools, and communication media to consider system attributes, interrelationships, context and dynamics towards executing systems d...

Integrating Systems Thinking into IS Education

IS failure has been observed and documented in various articles (Barker and Frolick, 2003; Beresford et al., 1976; Bostrom and Heinen, 1977; Bussen andMichael, 1997; Heeks, 2002; Kay et al., 1999; Kaye, 1990; Keil and Robey, 2001, Mitev, 1994). Many researchers have tried to understand the phenomenon by studying success or failure factors (Birks et al., 2003; Peterson et al., 2002; Poon and Wag...