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Leafcutters building a system
Leafcutters building a system

‘System’ - a collection of elements connected to form a whole.

Systems Thinking holds the ideas of emergence and hierarchy, communication and control.

Systems practice uses these ideas to design and manage complex processes and constructions for the benefit of individuals, organisations and society.


Resources

 Systems Thinking
  International Federation for Systems Research [IFSR]  
  Centre for Innovation and Inclusion through Information Systems [CIIIS]  
  Systems Research Network [SRN]  
  Santa Fe Institute  
  Institute for Research on World-Systems [IROWS]  
  Open University Systems Group (SysWeb)  
  Complexity, Organisation, Governance and Systems [COGS]  
  Institute for the Management of Information Systems [IMIS]  
  American Society for Cybernetics [ASC]  
  UK Systems Society [UKSS]  
  System Dynamics Society  
  International Society for the Systems Sciences [ISSS]  
  Systems Practice for Managing Complexity [SPMC]  
  RAND  
  Cybernetics Society  
  Sustainability Institute  
  Natural Step [TNS]  

 Operational Research / Management Science
  Institute of Operations Management [IOM]  
  Association for Information Systems - IS World Net  
  Operational Research Society [ORS]  
  Association for Information Systems [AIS]  
  Institute of Mathematics and its Applications [IMA]  
  Academy of Information Systems [UKAIS]  
  Royal Statistical Society [RSS]  
  Strategic Planning Society [SPS]  
  Royal Economic Society [RES]  

 Complexity science, holistic science
  Centre for Complexity Research [CRC]  
  Centre for Complexity and Change [CCC]  
  Complexity, Organisation, Governance and Systems [COGS]  
  Centre for Complexity and Management  
  Complexity Society  
  Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence  
  Visual Maths  

 Action Research & Organisational Learning
  Society for Organizational Learning [SOL]  
  Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research [SOLAR]