Advantages of systems approach
Hello everyone, and this is my first post in 2009. I’ve spent the New Year in beautiful capital of Estonia – Tallin. It’s the third time being there, but the city turns to us from a very different perspective everytime. There will be some photos of the trip on my Flick page soon.
The theme of this post is Systems approach. As you may know, currently I spend a lot of time in researching it: I read books, read lectures and conduct trainings based on systems approach. The biggest problem in it is its explanation. People want to know in simple words, what is it all about and how it can help them. I’ll try to explain it on my personal example.Actually we all know about the main principle of systems approach. For religious people it’s clear: if you act bad, god will punish you. Generally speaking, all what you do will come back to you. This idea is based in the system approach, that says that everything is connected. From the theory of chaos we know about butterfly effect, we will use it as a proof of global connections.
Everybody knows these things, but we still act as we usually do. We do not think about consequences. Why? Because we only know that they will happen, but we don’t know “WHEN” and “HOW”. And this fact diminishes their (consequence’s) significance.
So we come to the main advantage, that I received from understanding the systems approach. It allows me to build feedback or at least estimate it. So I can make my daily decisions more precisely than before.
If we go more deeply, to systems modeling, we will also find a very interesting shift of paradigm here. After understanding modeling principles, you begin to analyze the world from different perspective. “Reservoirs” and “flows” are basic elements and they give your another, very useful tool for understanding and analyzing of daily processes and happenings.
That’s all for n0w. I will cover in detail both “systems thinking” and “systems modeling” in later posts.
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