Applications
Science systems thinking is increasingly being used to tackle a wide variety of subjects in fields such as computing, engineering, epidemiology, information science, health, manufacture, management, sustainable development and the environment. Professor Rajagopal, EGADE Business School building on the work of Ferdinand Tönnies has suggested the application of systems thinking in developing marketing strategy from the perspectives of corporate business restructuring in the post economic recession situations.
Some examples:
- Urban planning
- Science of Team Science
- Organizational architecture
- Job design
- Team Population and Work Unit Design
- Linear and Complex Process Design
- Supply Chain Design
- System Design
- Business continuity planning with FMEA protocol
- Critical Infrastructure Protection via FBI Infragard
- Delphi method — developed by RAND for USAF
- Futures studies — Thought leadership mentoring
- The public sector including examples at The Systems Thinking Review
- Leadership development
- Oceanography — forecasting complex systems behavior
- Permaculture
- Quality function deployment (QFD)
- Quality management — Hoshin planning methods
- Quality storyboard — StoryTech framework (LeapfrogU-EE)
- Software quality
- Program management
- Project management
- MECE
- The Vanguard Method
- Sociocracy
- Linear thinking
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
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