$1-4$: Systems Thinking

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Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you learn to apply a systems viewpoint to business organizations.

Action Items

View the $12-$minute video by Russell AckoffLinks to an external site. on systems thinking.

Review a one$-$page summary of Marvin Weisbord$$s system modelLinks to an external site..

Read the more detailed description of the Weisbord six box system modelLinks to an external site..

Practice applying the six$-$box system model to your own organization by employing your answers to the Table $1$ questions for each box from the above article.

Prepare a $1-2$ page paper that responds to the following:

What ideas were new to you?

Provide your answers to each of your selected Weisbord model questions.

What did you learn about your organization from the practice application of Weisbord$$s model?

What might be some of the practical implications of using a systems thinking approach in your organizational unit?