Systems Thinking and Methods, Half day

In this half-day workshop, you will learn how to analyze and influence any system. (There's no such thing as "control!") We will take a sociotechnical view of systems that draws on lean thinking and cybernetics. Using these perspectives, we will look at how systems work, how you can optimize them, and the many ways they can fail.

You will learn how to create slope fields, causal loop diagrams, and to identify the points of leverage in a system.

During this workshop, you will be asked to stretch your thinking into new paradigms to understand how the same dynamics can sometimes create inertia and other times create radically nonlinear change.