{"id":2081,"date":"2015-12-17T01:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T06:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2015-12-21T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:58:11","slug":"systems-analysis-or-whats-the-problem-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/12\/systems-analysis-or-whats-the-problem-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Analysis or &#8220;What&#8217;s the Problem Here?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Systems analysis is merely a few basic skills in what a person notices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From time to time I analyze systems. I analyze all types of systems, and most of those systems are usually not recognized as systems. I suppose I have a broad idea of what comprises a system.<\/p>\n<p>A fundamental skill I find in systems analysis is the ability to zoom in and back out as I notice the system.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) Zooming in examines the details of the system.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Backing out considers the greater context of the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In considering (2), I wonder if the system fits in its universe. Will it play the role it is hoped to play?<\/p>\n<p>In examining (1), I scrutinize if the parts of the system will sum to a system that works.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming in and backing out aren&#8217;t difficult\u2014at least they don&#8217;t seem difficult to me. They must be difficult because persons who can analyze systems seem to be rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Systems analysis is merely a few basic skills in what a person notices. From time to time I analyze systems. I analyze all types of systems, and most of those systems are usually not recognized as systems. I suppose I have a broad idea of what comprises a system. A fundamental skill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,48,58],"tags":[240,170,178],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-general-systems-thinking","category-systems","tag-analysis","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}