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Course Description
Short Course | 12 hours | 1.2 CEUs | $1,295
Systems Thinking attempts to better align the way we think with how the real-world works. This course is a comprehensive introduction to the area of systems thinking, theory, and the practical tools for seeking solutions. The course has two primary achievements; first, how to view the world or problems from a systems perspective and, secondly, the standardized language of systems theory, which allows them to describe and model systems of all kinds.
Topics include:
- Systems Thinking methodology and analysis tools as part of the systems engineer’s product development toolkit.
- Understanding Systems Thinking as looking at systems as the sum of its parts working together, as opposed to a typical linear process.
- Understanding the relationship between Events, Patterns and Structures and learning core set of analysis tools for systems thinking.
Course Outline
- Systems Thinking Overview
- What is Systems Thinking?
- The Value of Systems Thinking
- Systems Thinking Process
- Tools of Systems Thinking
- Formal System Models
- Systems Diagrams to represent systems and their dynamics
- Feedback loops and impact on system behaviors
- Why systems are unpredictable
- Analyzing and improving systems
- Systemic solution space: Developing and applying customer requirements to your solution space
- Growth and balancing structures
- Competitive and cooperative structures
- Identifying and using a system’s high leverage point
- Classical control theory methodology
- Understanding how today’s solutions become tomorrow’s problems
- Recognizing problems before they become problems
Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
Duration
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