What prompted the idea for the course? As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in general – have much to contribute to solving social problems.

For public officials, the law of unintended consequences should need no introduction. It would be hard to find a better example of that law at work than in what happened to Somerville, Mass., after ...

Course Overview and Introduction - Introduction to Systems Thinking Course structure, syllabus review, reading assignments, projects and mentoring, grading, expectations (students and faculty) A ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

For the last few years, design thinking has been in vogue. I’ve worked for three years as a member of the team designing and running +Acumen courses. In 2013, we launched an “Introduction to ...

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water are spending $76,000 to send select staff on a "systems thinking training course".

There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.