TB872: The main systemic influences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
Note: this is a post reflecting on one of the modules of my MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. You can see all of the related posts in this category.
The above is an attempt at an ‘influence diagram’ for my Systemic Inquiry 2 (S2). I’m not particularly happy with it, as I don’t think I’ve done a good enough job of explaining what’s going on. I also feel like I’ve missed something obvious.
However, the approaches I used in previous posts didn’t quite cut it. For example, this one not only took a long time to make but included ‘things’ (e.g. the DCC website) and not just people:
The one below is my favourite as I think it’s the clearest. However, it’s talking about DCC’s audiences from a communications perspective, rather than the influence that different actors have within the ecosystem:
Given that diagrams are supposed to be snapshots based on a particular observers view of the system, I feel like these three combine to give me a better understanding of what’s going on. Perhaps because I’ve been so involved in this world for the last 13 years, I know that there’s so much more going on. I just don’t want to boil the ocean when, like Daniel Bedingfield, I gotta get thru this.
