Sector: Healthcare
Showing 10 of 97 results (by popularity)
The “Thinking” in Systems Thinking: Honing Your Skills
Why is it so challenging to develop systems thinking ability? It’s because thinking systemically involves a rather large number of different skills—seven, at least—that…
The Systems Orientation: From Curiosity to Courage
Systems thinking is different from most other problem-solving tools because it takes into account the fact that we are a part of the system…
Using Causal Loop Diagrams to Make Mental Models Explicit
Making mental models explicit can enhance both individual and organizational learning by making individual learning more accessible and therefore more easily transferable to the…
Fine-Tuning Your Causal Loop Diagrams—Part II
Distinguish Between Actual and Perceived Conditions Perceptions and reality often differ, and it is usually important to capture these differences in your causal diagrams. The…
Fine-Tuning Your Causal Loop Diagrams—Part I
Causal loop diagrams are an important tool for representing the feedback structure of systems. They are excellent for Quickly capturing your hypotheses about…
Remedying – or Redoubling – Healthcare Expenses
When costs go up, the logical thing to do is to pass them along to someone else, right? For the past several years, that’s…
A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
When one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to…
Transforming the Systems Movement
The situation the world is in is a mess. This hardly requires documentation; it’s obvious. Furthermore, as Leslie Gelb observed in his article “Fresh…
Food Systems, Climate Systems, Laundry Systems: The Time for Systems Literacy Is Now!
Tell me, in what subjects are you literate? Sounds like a question a college interviewer might ask. To be literate of course means you…
The Science of Change: Working with – Not Against – Our Inner Systems
I cannot count the times I have heard individuals announce, with great certainty, New Years resolutions by which they intend to change their behavior.