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Barriers to Systems Thinking

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Systems Thinking Criticism

Models for the sake of modelling

A Hypothetical ‘Perfect’ Artificial Argumentative Systems Planner — DRAFT

– It would, professor, if the way that it’s being sidestepped wasn’t actually a little more tricky, almost deceptive. Commissioner, you guys have some systems experts on your staff, don’t you? So where do they get those pristine performance track printouts of their simulation models?

– Ah. Huh. Well, that question never came up.

Why few organizations adopt systems thinking

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Richard Beasley

I wrote a paper for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) conferecne in 2012 enttitle "the barriers to systems thinking" - and in summary (and the order I presented, not necessarily importance) i included
a) the availability error - you can jump to solutions because human nature likes to make the most of what we've got, and we can build lausible stories to process information avaialble, building in bias
b) difficulutlies dealing withlooking- we don't want to look, and when we do we look for known problems - and any little extra information increases confusion and destroys "safe" assumptions - and so removes the "comfort" of (false) certainty
c) the drive for progress - time on plans is one way with no room for iteration, or the "custse ofthe Gantt chart", or quoting Shakespeare (usually right on human nature" "the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er ith the pale cast of thought" (Hamlet, act 3 scene 1) - or - in a crisis all progress is good
d) Engineers are practical - so they like to use common sense and what works - and so driven to action
e) the perceived arrogance of the SEs (or Systems Thinkers) - we think we have ways of making solutions better, but the reaction is defensive - "are you saying I am not a good engineer". The language of Systems Thinking (see your opening comments) doesn't help, adn SE (or ST) can be seen as just a new breed of magic

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