How systems mapping can help you build a better theory of change
read about them in Systems Archetypes: Diagnosing Systemic Issues and Designing High-Leverage Interventions by Daniel H. Kim (1993, Cambridge, Mass.: Pegasus Communications). Or see The Fifth Discipline, pp. 378-90; issues of The Systems Thinker;
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Balancing loops are often found in situations which seem to be self-correcting and self-regulating, whether the participants like it or not.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
GUIDELINES FOR WIDENING AND DEEPENING Start by asking: “What else is affecting this element?” Then see if you can trace those elements into your picture and make them into new loops. For example: “Budget pressures are affected by revenue. Revenue is affected by market share. What affects market share … ?”
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Tools
- Mapping
- Iceberg model
- Theory of change