The participants engaged in intense discussions with key thought leaders in global finance (Simon Johnson), systems thinking (Peter Senge), data-driven societies (Sandy Pentland), urban transformation (Phil Thompson), mindful systems change (Dayna Cunningham), and system dynamics (John Sterman).
Students will spend the term applying systems thinking to four global challenges: food systems, pandemics, inequality, and climate change.
"These labs provide an invaluable opportunity to build and apply students' knowledge of innovation, systems thinking, sustainability, organizational behavior, and global strategy.
This paper explores the question of what systems thinking adds to the field of global health.
Whether we understand the social world (including health systems) as operating through systems, or we take systems thinking simply as a useful mental construct to deal with the complexities of our social world [ 1], there is a growing attention to systems thinking in multiple fields of development practice and research, including global health.
In the rapidly changing field of global health, it is hard to know whether the recent attention to systems thinking is just another fad, or something more durable that offers usable insights for understanding and action.
Overlapping with the field of global health and global development, the world of evaluation is itself trying to better approach non-linear realities, complexity, and systems thinking [ 11].
The formation of the global future scenarios is based on review of literature, stakeholder consultation and a consistency check following a systems thinking exercise.
Companies report that SDM affiliation helps them address the ever-increasing need for systems thinking within engineering and provides new strategic approaches to innovation in technology, product development, supply chain, and global operations.
Many of the challenges in global health are now recognized as complex problems where simple blueprint approaches have limited success [ 5, 6].> Systems thinking tools have a wide variety of applications.
But is systems thinking sufficient?
