Systems Thinking Europe Oy. -- System Dynamics and Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking looks at the world around us from a new angle. It focuses on how systems change over time, identifies the forces of change and explains how they arise. Systems Thinking seeks simple, fundamental explanations.

It discovers and reveals the underlying, often ancient rules that drive our behavior. It leads us to find and implement new rules and structures for a permanent change of behavior. Systems Thinking guides us into understanding that it is ourselves, not something “out there” causing our problems. That realization will help us to make the shift from reactive to proactive behavior.

Systems Thinking forces us to break free from the old mental models. By assuming that the world is terribly complex we give ourselves an excuse for not understanding its dynamics. Yet the world is simple on the structural level even though it produces apparently complex behavior.

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Structure Produces Behavior, Which Is Seen In Events