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On Classifying “Systems:” Part Two

May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on On Classifying “Systems:” Part Two

Types of Systems The very circumscribed and also very partial and incomplete take on the history of General Systems Theory I provided in my last post, leaves us in the following position with respect to the problem of classifying systems. There are three very important dichotomies which have emerged out of the history of General […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Management

On Classifying “Systems:” Part One

May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on On Classifying “Systems:” Part One

Introduction   One of the aspects of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin approach is the identification of three physical and five human “domains,” or “systems.” The physical systems are called “order,” “chaos,” and “complexity.” In the area of human systems Dave breaks “order” down into known (simple) and knowable (complicated) systems, and also adds a fifth “domain” […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management