Systems Thinking

Asking the Right Questions

Systems thinking based on applied behavior science is the bedrock for our approach to improving organizational performance.

It allows us to ask the right questions to understand your organization and help you formulate potential improvement strategies.

Visualizing Systems

As needed, we help our clients visualize complex systems through straightforward diagrams that enable them to see the big picture - a critical first step to performance improvement.

These diagrams greatly facilitate communication and substantially speed up the planning and implementation process.

Training - Not Always the Solution

Training is a one of the most expensive ways for improving performance. Often, a perceived lack of knowledge and skills is not the real problem.

Systems thinking helps us determine causes for performance problems and to customize solutions that effectively meet our clients' specific needs.

Systems Thinking Publications and Presentations

Systems Thinking (and Systems Doing). Performance Improvement Journal, 38(1), 37-52. D. M. Brethower, first author (1999).

Systems thinking: What is it and how can I do it? With D. M. Brethower. Annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL, 1999.

Systems thinking (and systems doing). With D. M. Brethower. Annual conference of the International Society for Performance Improvement, Long Beach, CA, 1999.