What is Systems Approach

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A logical process or complex strategy to identify needs, analyze problems and possible solutions, or design procedures to improve systems operations and eliminate needs. Learn more in: Digital Transformation and Innovation Explained: A Scoping Review of an Evolving Interdisciplinary Field

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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. Learn more in: A Large-Scale Model for Working with Subject Matter Experts

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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. Learn more in: A Systems Approach for Sustainably Reducing Childhood Diarrheal Deaths in Developing Countries