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Tools for Systems Thinking

6/20/2018

 
There is a great article on Medium.com titled, "Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking." The author outlines six critical building blocks for developing a systems perspective:
  1. Interconnectedness
  2. Synthesis
  3. Emergence
  4. Feedback Loops
  5. Causality
  6. Systems Mapping
Healthcare is a complex adaptive system that is full of components that have nonlinear interactions. This is why we must apply systems thinking when developing and implementing process improvements (with the goal to "systematize" changes and sustain them in dynamic environments).

Read more about complex adaptive systems thinking.

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