Systems Thinking Cause-Effect Stencil
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Introduction

This page is a temporary home for ongoing work to develop a stencil for "Systems Thinking" Cause-Effect diagrams.  These diagrams were popularized by Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline", and are used to document and analyze patterns of cause and effect in business scenarios (though they are useful in other situations too).  A very good introduction to Systems Thinking and these diagrams can be found at Outsights.com.

Participants

Currently involved:

• Dan H: who posted the original request to microsoft.public.visio.general, and is providing feedback *.
• John Marshall: who took the initiative to get started on a stencil, and contacted Gene...
• Gene Bellinger:  The prolific author behind the Outsights sight.  Providing feedback *.
• Graham Wideman:  Trying to make the cause-effect arrow as helpful as possible.

Status

An initial stencil is being circulated for comment to the expert users.

Downloadables

The resulting stencil is expected to be public domain, and available [... where?...]

How to Use

Screen caps and instructions to be done.

Open Issues

Features under debate, bugs etc.

* Yes, I realize that given the topic, this is ironic.

Article Created: 2000-04-20  Last edit: Last edit: 00-10-30 Graham Wideman
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