Data analysis is pretty bad at narrative and emergent thinking, and it cannot match the explanatory suppleness of even a mediocre novel.
Families own emergent thinking about a decision could be reinforced, endorsed or approved by others, by feeding history or by situations, for example thinking about introducing formula could be reinforced by the baby's poor weight gain and family comments based on their experience.
"We want to reinvent home music," was how Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the gadget at the company's WWDC keynote, showing how Cupertino is thinking about the emergent device within its own business context.
The empirical sections are also marked by limited cross-referencing between chapters by their authors; thus, the reader is given little guidance in identifying and thinking through connections and emergent themes through these sections.
No doubt this reviews' readers are made up of those who have the capacity to appreciate Kells' latest brand of emergent, imaginative systems biology style of thinking underneath what some might consider a publication of inadequate scientific rigor.
Vivid futures thinking per se is a method to think creatively and free-mindedly the free-mindedly the ofutureontisuities, possibilities and the emerealm.
Once I began thinking about systems, I started to see complexity and unpredictable "emergent change" everywhere – in politics, economics, at work, and even in the lives of those around me. Change in complex systems occurs in slow, steady processes such as demographic shifts and in sudden, unforeseeable jumps.
But at least it's a new mindset, a new approach, a new way of thinking, one still ripe with possibility and the promise of emergent properties.
This paper proposes a systems thinking approach in which the PSS-cost is observed as an emergent attribute that the PSS, as a complex system, exhibits when is operating.
Thinking about the complexity of education reform through the lens of an emergent approach should give pause to everyone working to change public schools and should push us to carefully assess whether we are heading in the right direction.
This study illustrates that CAS thinking can be used as a metaphor to understand how to adapt more emergent ways of working instead of the traditional planned approaches to change and develop in order to deal better with a more complex world.
