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Thinking systems need systems thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2007
AbstractAfter describing machine and complex adaptive systems (CASs), we definethinking systemas a CAS with two additional, unique characteristics: (1) having goal(s) separate from survival, and (2) having the capability to structure its own learning and to innovate purposefully. Thinking systemsalwayslearn.
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Systems thinking and thinking systems

System Dynamics Review, 1994
AbstractThree types of system are identified and differentiated: mechanical, organismic, and social systems. The evolution of our concept of an enterprise from mechanical to social is then traced, as enterprises are viewed from each of these perspectives.
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Engineering systems thinking and systems thinking

Systems Engineering, 2000
This article deals with the question what distinguishes “engineering systems thinking” from “systems thinking”? Based on research findings, Senge's systems thinking laws were “adapted” to the “engineering systems thinking”—some were substantially modified, some replaced, and in some only the phrasing was changed.
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Think System -Don’t Think Hardware

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1964
<div class="htmlview paragraph">Reliability and Maintainability are both interrelated, nonseparable aspects of the quality of SYSTEMS. These aspects relate to the way the function is performed and not to any aspects of the physical hardware components. Because the performance depends upon the environments (both physical and human) as well as upon
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Systems Thinking

2017
Abstract Systems thinking was launched by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and others in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary movement with a broad and bold scientific program. The movement attempts to overcome the dominating mechanistic world picture and related reductionism in the sciences which is regarded as one of the main causes of the problems
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Systems Thinking

Journal of Human Values, 2009
The article discusses the parallels in systems thinking and Gandhian thinking. Aristotle's principle that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts is interpreted from multiple perspectives. The whole and the part and their relationships are discussed to understand various wholes in the organization.
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Systems Thinking

2006
This research set out to clarify the construct of systems thinking and to define it as a conceptual framework apart from systems science, systems theory, systems methods, and other perceived synonyms. Greater clarity in the systems thinking construct will assist any one of the many current implementation efforts in which systems thinking is being ...
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