Systems thinking is the process of understanding how things influence one another within a whole. In nature, systems thinking examples include ecosystems in which various elements such as air, water, movement, plants, and animals work together to survive or perish. In organizations, systems consist of people, structures, and processes that work together to make an organization healthy or unhealthy.
Systems thinking links well with the Maori view of the interconnected world, the tangata whenua.
You can also visit some other wiki links to broaden your introduction to Systems Thinking (Wikipedia 2012).
1. System Theory – Interdisciplinary study of systems
2. System Dynamics – approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time.
3. Glossary of systems theory – gives key terms used within Systems theory
4. World Systems Theory – is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change.
5. Cybernetics – transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities.
6. Emergence – is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.