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Systems Thinking Primer

Systems Thinking presentation given on the IT management track at OOP Conference 2012.

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Systems Thinking Primer

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  1. Learning to see... A Systems Thinking Primer (in 3 parts) @patkua

  2. I. Fundamentals

  3. I. II. Fundamentals Archetypes

  4. I. II. III. Fundamentals Archetypes In S/W Context

  5. Part I... Fundamentals

  6. What is asystem?

  7. Set of agents Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  8. Set of agents Interconnected Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  9. Set of agents Interconnected In a dynamic state Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  10. More than the sum of their parts

  11. More than the sum of their parts A product of their interactions

  12. Cause Effect (does not apply to full system)

  13. Analysis

  14. Analysis

  15. Analysis Synthesis

  16. Analysis Synthesis

  17. Analysis Synthesis

  18. Systems Thinking

  19. Correlation != Cause

  20. Systems thinkers seek feedback loops

  21. Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  22. Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  23. Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  24. Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

  25. 2 Types of Feedback Loops

  26. 2 Types of Feedback Loops Amplifying

  27. 2 Types of Feedback Loops Amplifying Dampening

  28. 2 Types of Feedback Loops Amplifying Dampening Self Reinforcing Negative Compounding Stabalising Runaway Positive Balancing Snowballing Escalating Self-maintaining

  29. Mental Models

  30. “The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.” Mental Models

  31. Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association Word association

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  33. Word association Word association Word association Colour Word association Word association Word association Furniture Word association Word association Word association Word association

  34. Word association Word association Word association Colour Word association Word association Word association Furniture Flower Word association Word association Word association Word association

  35. Word association Word association Word association Colour Word association Word association Word association Furniture Flower Word association Word association Word association 60 Word association seconds

  36. Noise Generating

  37. Fun Generating Noise Generating

  38. Delays

  39. Delays

  40. Part II... Archetypes

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