Introduction to Viable System Model

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• Posted on October 16, 2020October 22, 2020
• by Andrew Servania

Today I would like to talk about something very abstract that is used, in my opinion, as a thinking tool to look at the behaviors within systems, in a more holistic way. Also used in the context of corporate management. Every viable system contains and is contained in another viable system. The best example of […]

An introduction to Systems Thinking, from a public health point of view

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• Posted on October 15, 2020October 15, 2020
• by Andrew Servania

Today I had a very interesting, but very abstract lecture, if I may say so myself, that talked about a theory that I have never heard of. Systems Theory, introduced by Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy and, in its most basic understanding, deals with observing the behaviors of the interconnected parts of a system and how […]