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The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
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The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning

by Stephen G. Haines
January 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
400 pages
12h 18m
English
HRD Press
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Tool #3 #2 Systems Question—The Need for Feedback
Application of Systems Dynamics #5: Feedback
After answering The #1 Question, ask
The #2 Question—
“And how will I know I’ve achieved
it?” (i.e., feedback loop of outcome measures).
The concept of feedback is important in understanding how a system maintains a steady state
or how it changes successfully. Information concerning the outputs of the system is fed back as
an input to the system.
This crucial concept, which is taken from the control theory of the engineer, consists of
modifying the behavior of a system by reinserting the results of actual ...
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