See System. System Thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things for seeing patterns of change rather than static ‘snapshots’.
It is a set of general principles spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences engineering and management. It is also a set of specific tools and techniques originating in two threads: in ‘feedback’ concepts of cybernetics and in ‘servo-mechanism engineering’ theory dating back to the nineteenth century. System thinking is a sensibility – for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character. Peter Senge 1990. System Thinking has recently been promoted by John Seddon for service function improvement.
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