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Systems Thinking
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This chapter focuses on business analysis through the lens of systems thinking. One of the basic principles of systems thinking is feedback. Many Business Intelligence--centric organizations are built around information. The problems arise when information is seen as a static state. Systems thinking applies systems theory to create desired outcomes or change. It offers a unique approach to problem solving that views problems as part of an overall system. Traditional problem-solving approaches tend to focus on one or a few parts of a system, believing that changes to those parts offer a solution. The systems-thinking approach focuses less on the parts and more on interactions and influences among them as the core elements of problem solving. Visually representing system behavior is widely practiced in systems thinking with a causal loop diagram (CLD). Causal loop diagramming is a form of cause and effect modeling. The diagrams represent systems and their behaviors as a collection of nodes and links. Nodes represent the things in a system, and links illustrate interactions and influences. The discipline of systems thinking includes several archetypes—generic models that represent recurrent patterns in systems—discussed in the chapter.
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(2012). Systems Thinking. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119197683.ch8
“Systems Thinking.” 2012, pp. 159–90, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119197683.ch8.
2012. “Systems Thinking.” https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119197683.ch8.
(2012) ‘Systems Thinking’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119197683.ch8.
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year = {2012},
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