TY - JOUR AU - Buckle Henning, Pamela AU - Wilmhurst, Jacqui AU - Yearworth, Mike PY - 2012/11/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Understanding Systems Thinking: An Agenda for Applied Research in Industry JF - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2012, San Jose, CA, USA JA - ISSS-2012 VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - DO - UR - https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings56th/article/view/1909 SP - AB - <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables /> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx /> <w:UseFELayout /> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} --> <!--[endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Why systems thinking is valuable is relatively easy to explain.&nbsp; However, in the authors&rsquo; work as university educators, teaching a student processes of enquiry that are themselves systemic is a difficult undertaking.&nbsp; The capacity to view the world in systemic ways seems an innate characteristic that some individuals possess.&nbsp; Might it be the case that being a systems thinker is dependent on holding a particular worldview?&nbsp; Systems theorists have evolved tools and methodologies to help people do systems thinking.&nbsp; Is being a user of systems methods the same as being a systems thinker? Are certain cognitive competencies, styles, or preferences required for people to make effective use of such tools and methodologies?</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> ER -