Satisficing.
Satisficing is a method for making a choice from a set of alternatives encountered sequentially when one does not know much about the possibilities ahead of time.
Shifting Feedback Loop Dominance.
Shifting feedback loop dominance is used to describe a system with two or more feedback loops, with at least one having negative feedback and one having positive feedback.
Single loop learning.
Single loop learning is a term borrowed from electrical engineering or cybernetics where, for example, a thermostat is defined as a single-loop learner.
Situation Awareness.
Decision-makers are drawn to certain situational cues and not to others because of their situation awareness.
Stakeholder.
A stakeholder is a person involved in, or affected by, the process of developing an organisational change or strategic intervention, or the outcome of that intervention.
State Variables.
State variables are a collection of variables that we choose to monitor to inform us about the status of a system.
Stock (Level).
A stock is a simple conceptual device used in a system dynamics to represent parts of the system in which accumulation occurs.
Strategy.
Strategy describes management of the distribution of respources and creating conditions for the preferred way of doing business.
System Dynamics (System Dynamics Modelling).
System dynamics is a tool intended to enable our thinking about how feedback, delay, shifting feedback loop dominance, and non-linearity contribute to systemic behaviour.
Systemic Structure.
Systemic structure describes the web of interrelationships between factors at play which shape the dynamic behaviour of a problem situation.
Systemicity.
Systemicity describes the complex, dynamic behaviour exhibited by systems, or systems-of-systems
Systems Thinking.
Systems thinking is an epistemology which is based upon the ideas of emergence, hierarchy, communication and control as characteristics of system
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Soft System Modelling.
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Soft Systems.
Information related to Soft Systems.
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