System thinking

System: (dictionary meaning)

1. an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole.

2. any assemblage or set of correlated members

When we read about design thinking, design policies, and in larger scale even government and then even our nature too, we somehow got connected to a word called system.

What is system?

How much I understood about this word is that it’s a perspective of whole by networking its each and every component to make it complete cycle and always in a circle. Nothing is waste and nothing has more importance than the other because it’s all linked, though there could be priorities. So if u disturb one the other will be affected and if he then the next too so the whole cycle. It’s always a cyclical process rather than linear. And why circle because its always uniformed, balanced, and never ending (so also has no start).

For example say our body, when do we get fever? Fever is not a disease it’s a symptom, if some function of body get disturbed, it’s in the response of that malfunctioning so that we can be alerted and repair that malfunctioning. But suppose if we do not get fever even during a malfunctioning of our body system then probably we will end up diagnosing our most of diseases in very later stages, which could be fatal sometime.

The same thing can be applied to our society system also like, riots, outbursts, strikes, pre -elections, frauds, wars, failure of law and order and many more such violent and destructive responses are nothing else but simply a failure of not diagnosing the fever earlier.

Same concept applies to our philosophy of life too! What is Yein Yang? It’s all about balance so it’s about system. What is the concept of Bramha, Vishnu and Mahesh? Again same the balance, one is to start life, the other to move life and the last to complete it so that it can start again!

Now if we go back to our daily office life, the marketing life, we will find this there too! What is marketing? It’s also a cycle, start from target audience then to processes, then manufacturers and finally to consumer, which is now a customer. And to make business again the customer again gets in trap of target audience. But in marketing the trick is to keep open the loop though the circle is complete, it’s actually same but in micro view it looks as the loop is open but it’s not. The trick is to overlap rather leaving open same as the other. As I said the system doesn't work on its own it works with each of its component and nothing is waste. Can say in system there are no start point and the end point. Like our mother nature!

Another thought to describe it, could be the number zero. What is zero? It’s a restart!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31…

Now if you think1 as start then what is zero and if it’s zero then it has no value to itself! And if its zero then what about integers. Mathematically we denote infinity as n, and if n is a value then there will be n+1 too, and so n+n also, which will be n in itself!

Albert Einstein has said, “Mathematics is the way to nirvana.” Guess could be true! Till then let’s respect infinity!