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 ...

Business publications are replete with stories of well-intentioned business initiatives that went awry or caused unexpected adverse effects. Consider the case from 2024 of a popular seafood restaurant ...

Have you ever considered how many aspects of food production affect the natural environment? Every aspect needs to be considered in attaining the future goal to produce enough food for the growing ...

Systems thinking methods are increasingly valued in modern society, and there are many excellent books describing these methods (e.g., Jackson, 2000), but it is unclear from reading these books how to ...

In a world of complexity and change, managers and leaders are asked to tackle a much greater diversity of problems. They have to continue to ensure that organizational processes are efficient and that ...

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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 ...

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the brilliant new book by Scott Page, The Model Thinker. Page describes many models we can apply to data in efforts to understand our world and address complex ...

Find out what it is for, how it works and why it’s so important for businesses. Systems thinking is fundamental to understanding complex environments and proposing solutions to the challenges of our ...

The goal of this project was to develop and conduct psychometric testing of a measure of systems thinking, the Systems Thinking Scale (STS). For this project, we: Generated an initial bank of test ...