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What is Systems Approach

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Transformation and Innovation
A logical process or complex strategy to identify needs, analyze problems and possible solutions, or design procedures to improve systems operations and eliminate needs.
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Digital Transformation and Innovation Explained: A Scoping Review of an Evolving Interdisciplinary Field
Rocci Luppicini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1879-3.ch001
Abstract
Digital transformation is reshaping many areas of work and life within contemporary society. These include healthcare, education, government, politics, law, human rights, and ethical controversies. This chapter addresses the following questions, What is the current conception of digital transformation as an emerging interdisciplinary field of research and study? The objectives of the chapter are twofold: (1) to conceptualize digital transformation as an emerging interdisciplinary field and (2) to identify key research areas that currently constitute digital transformation. The chapter contributes by positing a comprehensive systems definition of digital transformation as an interdisciplinary research field to help guide researchers and other leaders in the field.
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A Large-Scale Model for Working with Subject Matter Experts
A methodology used to create and sustain a system (e.g., educational, instructional), composed of the performance of interrelated subsystems, to form a unified whole which is more than the sum of its individual parts.
Published in Chapter: A Large-Scale Model for Working with Subject Matter Experts; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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A Systems Approach for Sustainably Reducing Childhood Diarrheal Deaths in Developing Countries
A problem solving approach that views the problem (s) as part of an overall system. The component parts of the overall system are view in context to each other rather than in isolation. Therefore, rather than reducing a problem into the properties of its parts or causative components (as in the case of reductionist approach), this approach focuses on the arrangement of and the relations between the parts which connect them into a whole – based on the principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Instead of simply looking at problems through a linear cause and effects model, the systems framework recognizes the inherent nonlinearity of the synergistic interactions among systems components that can produce unintended consequences through emergence.
Published in Chapter: A Systems Approach for Sustainably Reducing Childhood Diarrheal Deaths in Developing Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development and Economics
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