Design Thinking vs. Systems Thinking for Engineering ...

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3.1 A brief history of the systems approach The history of the “systems approach” for dealing with design complexity is long and diverse. The following section provides a brief overview of several major schools of systems theory, beginning with Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory (1940). von Bertalanffy’s work was quickly

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