System Thinking- What is your understanding of System Thinking?

System thinking is characterised as channelling an individual's thought process to work on complex ideas in general. It is also directed as a perspective or language applied while working on the concepts or ideas that are reasonably alien to an individual's thoughts (Oga, 2019). Although it is relatively certain that different people tend to show similar behavioural trait or similarity in execution of views, but to analyse the outcome of the situational behaviours, it is crucial to examine the underlying epicentre of the mental models as to what induced the specific kind of behavioural outcome. Even though then initial behavioural patterns seem to be similar but differ in many ways at a depth of the mind.

An outline of three research paradigms have been set with the application of system Thinking in the business organisations inspired from the works of Checkland and Jackson, which are as follows, Hard Systems Thinking (HST), Soft Systems Thinking (SST) and Critical Systems Thinking (CST). The adaptation of the paradigms is initially set to study the evolution of Systems thinking. Hard Systems Thinking (HST) believes that the human build organisations can be thoroughly studied under critical observations, modelled and easily controlled to meet set goals and targets. Thus, the HST theory is driven by developing the models of thoughts and approaches to understand the course of actions that initiate the development of the organisations and gather information on the optical system of the efforts in achieving the set target goals. An example to explain the theory of the HST is the Beer Game, penned in the works of Stafford Beer.

#SoftSystemsThinking (SST), Common assumptions on faulty organisational management activities that are not structurally correct or fundamentally weak at the base, mainly based on a number of possible perceptions of the observer (Addae and Ling, 2018). Thus, SST emphasises the inquiry processes' implication during such problematic situations to inculcate the whole situation into a profound learning opportunity for the stakeholders to develop a much broader perspective towards the matter. Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology is an appropriate example associated with SST. #CriticalSystemsThinking (CST), finally CST by Jackson and Flood's, indicates assessing various viewpoints, correct assessment of the problem, assumptions, etc. and the intelligent application of the ST in different fields and aspects. Thus, this blog's goal was to highlight the levels of System Thinking, giving a clear perspective.