Systems Thinking for Managers

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Systems Thinking for Managers

• Amanda Gregory

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A system
relationship
External Factors
A
element
B
Feedback
Input
C
Output
The system
Environment
Boundary
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BURREL MORGAN GRIDFour different paradigms -
understand assumptions it is making about
societyUnderstand what it is designed to deal
withNeed different aspects of all these
methodologiesBe really good to be able to use
them in realitySome dominant - some
interdependent depending on situation
REGULATION
Functionalism VSM Truth is out there to be
discovered
Interpretivism SSM SAST Idealised Design
Ackoff Truth is in peoples heads
SUBJECTIVISM
OBJECTIVISM
Emancipatory CSH About radical change
Post-modern PANDA
RADICAL CHANGE
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Basic action learning cycle
Real world
Paradigm Set of mutually consistent and
reinforcing ideas
Idea
Methodology
Learning Reflection Theory in practice is very
different to theory on paper