2.2.1 Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring systems thinking within teams

Collaborative Systems Thinking Research: Exploring systems thinking within teams

This paper describes ongoing research that seeks to develop an empirical basis for collaborative systems thinking, defined as “an emergent behavior of teams resulting from the interactions of team members and utilizing a variety of thinking styles, design processes, tools, and communication media to consider system attributes, interrelationships, context and dynamics towards executing systems d...

Collaborative Systems Thinking: An exploration of the mechanisms enabling team systems thinking

Aerospace systems are among the most complex anthropogenic systems and require large quantities of systems knowledge to design successfully. Within the aerospace industry, an aging workforce places those with the most systems experience near retirement at a time when fewer new programs exist to provide systems experience to the incoming generation of aerospace engineers and leaders. The resulti...

Collaborative Systems Thinking: Towards an Understanding of Team-level Systems Thinking

Donna H. Rhodes Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Building NE20, Room 388 Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] Abstract As the engineering workforce ages, skills with long development periods are lost with retiring individuals faster than are younger engineers developing the skills. Systems thinking is one such skill. Recent research, (Davidz 2006), has shown the impor...

Systems thinking.

Evaluation is one of many fields where "systems thinking" is popular and is said to hold great promise. However, there is disagreement about what constitutes systems thinking. Its meaning is ambiguous, and systems scholars have made diverse and divergent attempts to describe it. Alternative origins include: von Bertalanffy, Aristotle, Lao Tsu or multiple aperiodic "waves." Some scholars describ...

Modeling and Analysis of Multidiscipline Research Teams at NASA Langley Research Center: A Systems Thinking Approach