Systems Thinking
Systems thinking is the practice of looking at how the parts of a system interact over time, rather than at any single part in isolation.
Why It Matters
Most business failures are not failures of a component but of the way components were connected, including incentives that pulled against the stated strategy.
Related Terms
- Second Order ThinkingSecond-order thinking asks what follows from the consequences of a decision, rather than stopping at its immediate effect.
- Organizational DesignOrganisational design is the arrangement of teams, reporting lines, decision rights and incentives through which a company does its work.
- Path DependencePath dependence is the way earlier choices constrain later ones, so that a system continues along a route set by decisions that may no longer be optimal.
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