4) Systems Thinking with Conceptual Blending Systems thinking involves seeing different topics/areas as systems with their own subsystems, that all inform one large system. Below, the right concepts show systems thinking, whereas the left is more-so typical analytical thinking.
Conceptualization: the capacity to see larger systems and forces at play and to construct public, testable ways of expressing these views.
Donella Meadows, the mother of systems thinking, put interconnectedness in a more explicit explanation: “A system is a set of related components that work together in a particular environment to perform whatever functions are required to achieve the systems objective.”
