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 ...

The operating room, like every department in a hospital, is only one part of a greater whole. Thus, when solving a problem in the OR, people must consider how other departments and areas of the ...

Workplanning usually involves a confluence of top-down and bottom-up approaches in many organizations. Some broad annual guidance is given by the CEO, with Finance providing a budget forecast based on ...

The most profound change artificial intelligence (AI) brings isn’t technological—it’s cognitive. It’s forcing organizations and industries to think differently about how progress happens. In every ...

Dynamic systems pays attention to patterns of change over time. Source: Drawing by A. Danvers “Personal histories are processes of change in time, and the change itself is one of the things ...

The work of government systems change is complex. It requires understanding historical systems built on an unjust foundation that have been repeatedly broken and put back together again through ...