All tagged Donella Meadows

I finally took the time to read Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer. It is obviously a primer on terms and concepts - not on the how to’s. There are great thoughts throughout the book on how to incorporate systems thinking and the value behind it. Even at the outset, Meadows says something to the effect that it is only useful to do this analysis if it will help solve real problems.

Places to Intervene in a Systemm, a 1997 article by Donella Meadows has been reprinted in a software developer magazine. Meadows was an important player in the systems thinking world. She founded the Sustainability Institute, and she seems to have been at least peripherally involved with theory of constraints.