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How to guide organisations towards innovation with a more interconnected, dynamic approach to design.
Systems are everywhere, from websites and businesses to entire cities and economies. They consist of many interconnected parts working together to achieve a goal, like how immune cells team up to protect the body against infections.
Viewing the world through a systems lens helps us look beyond isolated parts to see everything as a whole. This mindset shift is vital for innovating products, services, and any initiative to enhance a process, community or economy. Welcome to systems thinking.
Systems thinking is an approach explored by the late Donella H. Meadows in her book Thinking in Systems: A Primer. It teaches us to understand system parts, structure, and behaviour to design for a more sustainable and efficient world.
“A system is a set of things — people, cells, molecules, or whatever — interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behaviour over time.” — Donella H. Meadows.