A Definition of Systems Thinking: A Systems Approach

Arnold, Ross; Wade, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.03.050

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“…To fully do this, businesses need to holistically take account of all the different aspects that affect and interact with each other, and consider the whole system that they are a part of (Barile, Saviano, Landolo, & Calabrese, 2014). Businesses therefore need to adopt a system approach to better understand and predict possible outcomes of their decisions (Arnold & Wade, 2015).…”

Section: System Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Inter Business Index Developing a Tool for Measurement and Comparability of Holistic Sustainability in Businesses

Hallin¹,

Sandberg²,

Mantel³

2017

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The scope of sustainable development is undoubtedly growing, and becoming increasingly more important due to the process of globalization, amounting in complex environmental, societal and economic issues. Although the subject of business sustainability has been gaining traction and resulted in increased knowledge in the field, the business sustainability discourse is still at a young stage, where the different streams of approaches, definitions, systems and measures are fragmented and challenged. Today's global challenges are so large and complex that they require a new kind of problem-solving and way of doing business. Identifying solutions requires a diversity of perspectives, approaches and capabilities, and the business sector plays a critical role. The integrated approach has been examined to some extent, proposing a holistic manner of moving on to true business sustainability, and a sustainable development on a global scale. This article presents the concept of Inter Business and the Inter Business Index, a tool for measurement and comparability of holistic sustainability in businesses. The Inter Business framework consists of four key-components that describe the skills needed for future-preparedness. In our research, we have analysed the 50 biggest corporations in Sweden and identified purpose, empathy, system approach and transformation as components that respond to the hypothesis that interconnection and integration are key for companies to survive and thrive, whilst contributing to society at large.

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Section: System Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Inter Business Index Developing a Tool for Measurement and Comparability of Holistic Sustainability in Businesses

Hallin¹,

Sandberg²,

Mantel³

2017

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“…Our diagnosis is guided by 'system thinking' -a set of synergistic analytic skills 10 used to improve our capability in identifying and understanding systems, predicting their behaviours, and devising modifications to them, with the goal of producing the desired effects (Arnold & Wade, 2015). We direct those interested in the nature and historical development of system thinking, as well as in the main contemporary system approaches, to Reynolds & Holwell (2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Electricity market design for a decarbonised future

Poudineh¹,

Peng²

2017

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In recent years, the debate on electricity market design in the EU has focused on the fitness-for-purpose of the existing dominant design, the appropriateness of energy policy that underpins the existing market design, and on the process through which energy policy is coordinated with market design. In this paper, we contribute to this debate on all three levels. First, we propose a 'module-and-level'-based framework to illustrate our diagnosis of coordination issues present in the EU's power markets. We apply this framework to make a systematic identification of existing misalignments between the components of current market design and physical RES integration/financial RES support schemes. Secondly, we argue that the role of energy policy is not just in managing existing trade-offs between competitiveness, sustainability, and reliability, but also in encouraging innovations that increase the compatibility of energy policy objectives in the future. Finally, we propose a seven-step condition-dependent evolution of power market design, where the government/regulatory authority plays the role of meta-coordinator, matching the adaptation of market-based coordination modules with a hybrid future where distributed energy resources coexist with centralised generation, while decentralised market participants trade with each other and with incumbents.

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“…We therefore propose the systems approach in designing and executing national strategic planning, which should encompass both sets of indicators. The systems approach (systems thinking) may arguably be very useful in handling the complexity facing nations and the world in the coming decades (Arnold and Wade 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%