Understanding Systems

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Copyright: 2024
Pages: 23
Source title: Tools, Exercises, and Strategies for Coping With Complexity
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rune Storesund (Storesund Consulting, Kensington, USA)and Ian I. Mitroff (Mitroff Crisis Management, Berkeley, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6563-9.ch002

Keywords: Business & Management / Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Information Science Reference / Risk Management & Analysis

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A System is an intentionally designed, systematically organized, whole entity (e.g., an automobile, computer, smart building, etc.) that has one or more essential functions so that an individual and/or groups of people are thereby able to accomplish a set of important purposes. Furthermore, the functions, not the parts, are critical in defining a System. By means of their functions, the parts exist to allow people to accomplish significant purposes, not the other way around. A critical distinction is that a System's parts have functions while only humans as purposive individuals have purposes.

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