Using Systems Thinking in Environmental Scanning…
”Causal loop diagrams” and ”systems archetypes” – The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge et al. as a starting point.
In scan data, look for interdependencies, feedback delays, repeating patterns:
- review scans for interconnections;
- identify possibilities for reinforcing or balancing behavior – the first will support or speed change; the latter will constrain or slow change