All businesses are systems…which means: they can be understood and changed. By competently applying Systems Thinking concepts — business behavior and performance can be understood, insights gleaned, crucial cause-and-effect relationships revealed, and uniquely applicable solutions created (with demonstrable links from a solution’s effects to a problem’s causes). Systems: A Practical Introduction to Systems, Systems Thinking, and System Dynamics equips readers with systems thinking capabilities; including: General Systems Theory’s (GST) IPOF (Input-Process-Output-Feedback); First & Second-order Cybernetics (important for all business professionals); Fundamentals of System Dynamics (e.g., structure, flows, rates & rate functions, accumulators, and both types of feedback); and more.
