The Manager's Pocket Guide to Mega Thinking and Planning

Glossary of Terms

System, Systems, Systematic, and Systemic: related but not the same.

system approach: Begins with the sum total of parts working independently and together to achieve a useful set of results at the societal level…adding value for all internal and external partners. We best think of it as the large whole and we can show it thus:

systems approach: Begins with the parts of a system—subsystems—that make up the “system.” We can show it thus:

The “system” is made up of smaller elements, or subsystems, shown as “bubbles” embedded in ...