Course: Systems Thinking and Complexity

Feedback is a fundamental concept in systems thinking, and lack of appropriate feedback is often a cause of system failure. The idea can be illustrated by a doctor treating a …

In the last step you were asked the questions: which country do you live in? do you think in five years most British citizens will have higher incomes as a …

One of the challenging aspects of systems is knowing where the boundary lies that separates the system from its environment. Sometimes this depends on your point of view. For example, …

An interesting and important question in systems thinking is whether social systems exist in an objective way or whether they are subjective constructs. Consider a social situation you know well. …

This video summarises an argument made by one of the fathers of systems thinking, Russell Ackoff. As long ago as the 1960s Ackoff gave lectures which criticised the practices of …

Systems are formed from sets of interacting parts where every part effects and is effected by every other part, and the behaviour of the system emerges from the interactions. On …