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Using a systems thinking approach to map the global rise of ultra-processed foods in population diets. [PDF]

open access: yesObes Rev
Wood B   +7 more
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Systems thinking with active implementation research (STAIR): Protocol for a school-based randomised control trial for childhood obesity prevention. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Jackson M   +12 more
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Managing IT with systems thinking

Computer, 2003
Technological systems do not exist in a vacuum, but are an integral part of an organizational setting. With information systems now permeating almost every aspect of our environment, systems thinking has never been more relevant to engineers and managers. Information systems essentially store, process, and distribute organizational information.
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INFORMAL SYSTEMS THINKING OR SYSTEMS THEORY

Cybernetics and Systems, 2003
Systems thinking is the practice of holistic thinking, which can be informal or based on systems theory. Success has always depend on holistic rather than one-side thinking. Empirical findings about the innovative society can exemplify this statement, though there seems to be no universal agreement as to what the basic attributes of systems thinking ...
Matjaz Mulej   +9 more
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Systems thinking for the integration of management systems

Business Process Management Journal, 2004
This paper discusses how a systems approach to management can be used to facilitate the development and implementation of an integrated management system (IMS) in an organization. It is argued that any solution to address the rapidly growing need for the integration of function‐specific management systems requires two elements: a conceptual model and a
Jonker, J., Karapetrovic, S.
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Crisis in systems thinking

Kybernetes, 2019
Purpose The current field of systems thinking consists of a variety of views, methods and a number of organisations involved with these views which suggests a state of confusion and fragmentation of the field which fundamentally is supposed to be a uniform view of structures or systems. This can be interpreted as a “crisis situation”.
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Quality thinking and systems thinking

The TQM Magazine, 2006
PurposeThe full meaning of quality and quality management concepts can be only understood within the framework of systems thinking. The need for a new paradigm, based on systems theory, is even more evident when the attempt is made to extend quality management concepts from the material level of economic transactions to the immaterial level of social ...
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Systems of Systems Thinking

2019
As more of our systems interoperate in one or more independently evolving systems of systems and user needs focus more on “new capabilities” rather than a “new system,” so too do our systems thinking processes need to evolve to SoS thinking. SoS thinking builds upon systems thinking to consider the interactions of the SoS constituent systems with each ...
Jo Ann Lane, Barry Boehm
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