System Approach Thinking
Structured innovation recognizes that problems exist in a complex web of inputs, outputs and influences that we call a system. One of the techniques Innovation Rainmakers® uses to solve problems is Systems Approach Thinking.
The Systems Approach Thinking model at right will help you examine and understand a system thoroughly. As a tool, the model has several uses:
• Use it as an underlying foundation for information gathering:
In a matter of minutes, you can collect critical information about a new topic by structuring questions using this model.
• Use to expand the solution space:
Systems Approach Thinking enables you to find new resources that are outside the system and expand your search for a solution to the super-system, sub-systems or any of the axes.
• Use to redefine a problem:
Often innovators can change a problem statement by changing aspects of the system model; this opens the door to solving different problems.
