From the course: Systems Thinking
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Real-life example
- I somehow ended up with four dogs, two of them, 130 pound Bernese Mountain Dogs, and two obsessive compulsive Australian Cattle Dogs. Feeding has always been a tedious, time consuming, mess generating chore, and as a systems thinker, I needed to break down the processes while also taking multiple factors into account, in order to really look at this every day problem as a system. There was a few things I observed, the first was that the big dogs would bully the little dogs, and that would cause the little dogs to get less food, and then they would beg for more food throughout the day. The second is that I wasted a tremendous amount of time walking around getting the bowls, the water, the scoop, the food, which were all in different places in the kitchen. The other thing I noticed is that Berners have really large noses, and we had relatively small bowls, so they would push the bowls across the floor as they were feeding, in order to get at the food. This also created a mess, and a…
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