Critical Review Paper
MSC 555
Fall 2015
A Critical Review of the Seven Habits of a Systems Savvy Person
Introduction In chapter ten of Dynamic Systems for Everyone, Ghosh Asish mentions the seven habits of a systems savvy person. He discusses the differences between looking at the whole phenomena to understand the whole systems and looking at the system in parts to check each parts’ property. The author discusses how the principle of all phenomena can help a systems savvy person create the right mental and conceptual models and interactive models. In addition, the systems savvy person can optimize the systems, minimize the delay, improve the efficiency and keep improving the systems. This chapter includes several …show more content…
Therefore, specialist readers need to investigate deeply to find the mathematical equations of these systems. Certainly, this chapter is suitable to understand the behaviors of the systems, but is hard to apply the systems since the readers need to look for more details. The potential impact of this chapter is to help the general reader learn how to think dynamically. As for specialists, they need to read more specialized articles to be able to apply their perspectives in their systems. This chapter includes various types of systems from diverse fields which may show how the seven habits are useful to improve any system in the life. When the readers recognize how they can use the seven habits, it will motivate the readers to read more about the dynamic system concepts. Ghosh follows a great technique to explain the seven habits by showing an issue with systems, and suggests new solutions to fix this issue. This chapter greatly shows the readers how they can use the seven habits to improve their …show more content…
This chapter provides guidelines to the readers to deal with their problems in the life by creating mental and conceptual models and making interactive models. In addition, this chapter guides the readers to improve the models or systems by optimization, removing the obstacles, improving efficiency and robustness, and making continuous improvement in the systems. Moreover, the readers can learn from this chapter how to think bigger by looking a holistic world view of the systems, how the parts interconnect with each other and not focusing on how each part works alone. By learning all these habits, the readers are able to understand how the systems works, can determine where the main issues in the systems, and which parts may improve in the systems to have more effective