Name: HOSEN MDAWAL

Student ID: 10A2212012

Reflection Paper

As I was eagerly waiting for this class due to the high interest of mine in system thinking.

Before this class, I had never studied system & logical thinking broadly. The first class

was very much fruitful and exciting. There were couple of important points that left in

my mind after the class. One is the simulation game, behavior Over time (BOI), Feedback

loop (CLD) and Unintended results by not understanding system dynamics.

Learning from Simulation Game:

What I learned doing the simulation game (Fishbank Company) is that team collaboration

is important. Without collaboration, there is high chance of assuming negative results or

unintended results. The collaboration must also have to done with the other business

partners or stakeholders. As we did not collaborate with other competitors, deep ocean

fish population decreased, and it’s alarmed an environmental effect. Beside that

regardless of maximizing assets, one’s must possess a business philosophy that emphasize

the sustainability in its operating activities. And without holistic view of a situation from

the beginning, the consequences of facing unintended results is a must reality.

Learning from the Feedback Loops:

The two-feedback loop was little bit critical to understand. The exercise was helpful but

could not finish it by time. As far as my understanding, reinforce & balancing Feedback

loop has S & O arrays which means Same & Opposite. But the difficulties are the when

a dynamics is unambiguous where it could be either positive or negative. If that is the

dynamics, we must number it. By numbering we can analyze and understand a situation.

Or draw a perspective. By the way, I think I need to study further on this from the
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suggested textbooks.

Unintended/Unexpected Results:

I think this was one of the important points that left good impression on me. One of the

goals of the system thinking is to avoid such results or outcome. Therefore, it is crucial

to understand the surrounding events, behavior patterns, structure and mental model

suggested in the Model. Moreover, Identifying the issues, recognize pattern, verifying the

hypothesis and seek out interventions is significant.

In conclusion, I would say I have learned above mentioned key points from the class

specially understating the dynamics and implement System thinking model. If want to

seek out better outcomes from the complicated situations, we must think differently and

minimize the unexpected results.