Applying Systems Thinking and
Common Archetypes to Organizational Issues

Module 1: Why the Systems View?

A Typical View

The consultant's report is summarized in the chart below.

Overall Results

Problems/Solutions

The Board was not impressed. What if the problems were just symptoms of more fundamental changes in the marketplace? Or could there be other current company policies that were the underlying cause of poor performance? Many solutions had already been tried-and this new batch did not promise dramatic improvement in performance.