{"id":87,"date":"2017-11-01T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-06-09T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:29:53","slug":"definition_of_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/samuelgerges\/definition_of_system\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;A system isn\u2019t just any old collection of things. A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something&#8221; Therefore, the system mainly consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.\u00a0(Wright and Meadows, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright, D. and Meadows, D. (2012).\u00a0<i>Thinking in Systems<\/i>. 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