Systems foresight, systems thinking, holistic perspective

The systemic approach, sometimes named analyzes systemic, is an interdisciplinary field relative to the study of the complex objects, “refractory” to the “usual” approaches of comprehension. Vis-à-vis this type of problem, it is necessary to implement a total step: • focusing more on trade between parts of the system for the analysis of each, • reasoning with respect to the objective of the system (teleology) • establishing the possible stable states of the system. “Looking at the whole system rather than just concentrating on individual components. The overall sum can be greater than a simple totalling of the individual parts, because the "system" adds something in addition”. R.L. Caldwell