In today's world, situations and problems are much more complex than in the past, this is a reality that we must make our own, therefore we should not continue to think as in the past, which is why a need for perspectives has been created non-reductionist capable of creating conditions for the emergence of new responses to current challenges, and the powerful transversality of complex processes that go beyond any disciplinary or partial response.
Achaerandio defines systemic thinking as the mental ability that allows organizing and integrating diverse elements or components in a meaningful and global set; that helps to understand "global systems" from their elements; it captures the implicit cause-effect relationships and the meaningful concatenation of the sequences.
On the other hand, Peter Senge, tells us that systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools that has been developed in the last fifty years, so that the total patterns are clearer, and to help us modify them.
He highlights the fact that systems thinking is the most important ability for a group of people to create what they really want and also that systems thinking continually reminds us that the whole can exceed the sum of the parts.
Systemic thinking for me basically consists of analyzing all the parts that are involved in any phenomenon, situation or problem, from an integral perspective, circular and not linearly as in many cases it is done, systemic thinking considers the whole and the parts, as well as the connections between the parts and studies the whole in order to understand the parts, it is the opposite of reductionism, systemic thinking allows us to study the connection that exists between the various disciplines to predict the behavior of systems, all this helps us to understand and manage organizations more effectively if understanding organizations as systems.
With systems thinking we learn to analyze patterns in non-linear relationships, we see events from other perspectives, and when we apply systems thinking we obtain more global and concrete solutions and we feed a feedback process.
The manager must have a panoramic look, a systemic thinking when he is looking to solve a problem or is analyzing a situation, in many cases we do not realize that the problem to be solved is linked to another system, consequently we act ignoring a good part From its origin, we must manage this better to be more productive and obtain better results, when the complexity of a process is understood and the way to improve it is discovered, one is thinking systemically.
When as managers we work from a systems thinking we learn to think in terms of dynamic systems instead of doing it as isolated events or situations, and this undoubtedly favors us in our management and will make us more effective.
On the other hand, when as managers we learn to understand organizations as an integrated element that contains parts that undoubtedly interrelate with each other and that each part is important to have a system that promotes productivity and that when solving a problem we can do it in a more comprehensive, comprehensive and global way, seeking to see and contemplate beyond the obvious, we will add to the success of the organizations where we make life and that, dear friends, is part of the exercise of management.
Author: Lcdo. Michael Aular - Micdan Consulting
