Systems Thinking vs Design Thinking, What’s the Difference?
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Systems Thinking vs Design Thinking, What’s the Difference?
Mindsets
- Sees the whole picture
- Engages different perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems
- Looks for relationships and how parts interact
- Looks for unintended consequences
- Thinks circularly; not linearly
- Embraces complexity
- Questions assumptions
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
Critical Systems Thinking uses various systems thinking approaches to generate multiple partial perspectives that may be useful in making strategic choices when faced with a problem or opportunity - choices that are likely to put value creation at risk or create added value.
It also uses a multi-disciplinary approach, to benefit from the generating ... See more
It also uses a multi-disciplinary approach, to benefit from the generating ... See more
Critical Systems Thinking as a Strategic Approach
Taking on a holistic approach to design and systems’ thinking can help us understand how different elements relate to each other — and helps us remember that the world is an interconnected web. Everything we design is part of a whole that has a wider social and ecological impact.
space10.com • Regenerative by Design
systems thinking does not concentrate on basic building blocks but rather on basic principles of organization. Systems thinking is “contextual,” which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.
Fritjof Capra • The Systems View of Life
These approaches emerge from two different ways of seeing an organization: the prescriptive approach is based on the view that an organization can be designed and engineered like a machine, while the generative approach is based on the view that an organization is composed of living workers whose behavior necessarily emerges from their own values a
... See moreAndrew Davis • Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action
The essence of the discipline of systems thinking lies in a shift of mind: seeing interrelationships rather than linear cause-effect chains, and seeing processes of change rather than snapshots
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
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