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The Boston Indicators Project, a joint effort of The Boston Foundation and the City of Boston, Massachusetts, used systems thinking in their 2002 report, Creativity & Innovation: A Bridge to the Future. The Foundation worked with systems thinking consultants (Daniel Aronson, Four Profit Inc; Phil Clawson, Community Matters Group; and Brendan Miller and Osamu Uehara of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to help find a core theme in the changes in the 200 indicators related to the greater Boston area's economic strength, civic life, community fabric, health status, diversity, and other areas. As a result, the report highlights the connections between economic innovation, transportation, the cost of living, diversity, demographics, and many other areas. |
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Monday, March 28
Recent Projects Using Systems Thinking Innovatively
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JTJ
on Mon 28 Mar 2005 10:16 PM MST
Principia Cybernetica Web: Cybernetics and Systems Theory
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JTJ
on Mon 28 Mar 2005 10:12 PM MST
The following links provide general background information on the field of Cybernetics and Systems Theory, an interdisciplinary academic domain.
Gene Bellinger: "Introduction to Systems Thinking"
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JTJ
on Mon 28 Mar 2005 10:09 PM MST
"People, when initially introduced to structures, also referred
to as Archetypes, often find them a bit overwhelming. They really
aren't at all difficult once you get used to them. The following
is an introduction to structures and how to read the stories associated
with the diagrams."
http://www.systems-thinking.org/intst/int.htm Be sure to work upstream in the URL to see the rest of Bellinger's work.
System Dynamics Society
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JTJ
on Mon 28 Mar 2005 10:02 PM MST
System Dynamics Society
System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as one finds in business and other social systems. In fact it has been used to address practically every sort of feedback system. While the word system has been applied to all sorts of situations, feedback is the differentiating descriptor here. Feedback refers to the situation of X affecting Y and Y in turn affecting X perhaps through a chain of causes and effects. One cannot study the link between X and Y and, independently, the link between Y and X and predict how the system will behave. Only the study of the whole system as a feedback system will lead to correct results. Wednesday, March 16
What is System Dynamics
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Tom Johnson
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:47 PM MST
<>The System Dynamics Group was founded in
the early 1960s by Professor Jay W. Forrester at MIT. At that time, he began
applying what he had learned about systems during his work in electrical engineering
to every day kinds of systems. What makes using system dynamics different
from other approaches to studying complex systems is the use of feedback loops.
Stocks and flows help describe how a system is connected by feedback loops
which create the nonlinearity found so frequently in modern day problems.
Computers software is used to simulate a system dynamics model of the situation
being studied. Running "what if" simulations to test certain policies
on such a model can greatly aid in understanding how the system changes over
time.
See http://web.mit.edu/sdg/www/
Links on Cybernetics and Systems
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Tom Johnson
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:44 PM MST
What is Systems Theory?
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Tom Johnson
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:42 PM MST
Systems Theory:
the transdisciplinary study of the abstract organization of phenomena,
independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of
existence. It investigates both the principles common to all complex
entities, and the (usually mathematical) models which can be used to
describe them.
See: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SYSTHEOR.html
Systems theory - info definition meaning
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Tom Johnson
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:36 PM MST
Systems theory or general systems theory or systemics is an interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity article field which studies systems System article as a whole. Systems theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy Ludwig von Bertalanffy article , William Ross Ashby William Ross Ashby article and others between the 1940s 1940 article and the 1970s 1970 article on principles from physics Physics article , biology Biology article and engineering Engineering article and later grew into numerous fields including philosophy Philosophy article , sociology Sociology article , organizational theory Organizational theory article , management Management article , psychotherapy Psychotherapy article (within family systems therapy Family systems therapy article ) and economics Economics article among others. Cybernetics Cybernetics article is a related field, sometimes considered as a part of systems theory.
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