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SCIE8010 The Science of Sustainability - Conestoga College
Systems Thinking - Group Project
Preface:
This team assignment will provide you with an opportunity to apply the learned knowledge of Systems Thinking into practice. Furthermore, this assignment teaches you proper teamwork mentalities, brainstorming facilitations, and project management.
CI+OVID-19 came unexpected and forced the entire world to react and stay in the react mode for a long time. Businesses, public and private organizations, and normal people's life routine were affected by COVID-19 and had to be adapted accordingly. What went wrong? Why weren't we prepared enough? How can we be sure that by the next pandemic outbreak, the world doesn't go through the same turmoil. Can this be related to our current climate change situation? These are all questions that most people ask themselves, but mostly, their government officials. Scientific evidence, unbiased research, and solid assessment with a fresh point of views are necessary.
You are a member of a larger team within an international health consulting organization. You are tasked by World's Health Organization (WHO) to prepare a report on recent pandemic, COVID-19, which is intended to be presented at the UN annual assembly. WHO inquired an out-of-the-box look at the recent pandemic and its peripheral events and anticipates that the report will eventually result in a list of proposals for new global health policies.
Goal:
• To assess and identify the true root cause of COVID-19.
• To evaluate past, current, and future perspectives on pandemics, in general, and to find common denominators to be considered for policy makers all over the world
• To demonstrate solid understanding of Systems Thinking (ST) and Systems Dynamic and embed these concepts in the report, so that an novice person can follow the thought process and comprehends what ST does.
Instruction:
- Read and watch week2 and 3 lectures, videos, and notes.
- Call a team meeting and discuss roles and responsibilities.
- Set regularly occurring team meetings and start an action/project plan list. The list shall contain the following (or close to this) format:
- Facilitate a brainstorming session with all team members. The outcome of that session would be an Iceberg infographic with all teams' input. The ultimate aim of this exercise is to identify the root cause/structural systems that gave rise to COVID-19 disasters. Use lecture sources to back up your arguments and prove that you are on the right track of identifying the problem and not the symptom.
- Now that you have identified the true root cause, you have to map out the problem in the larger skim of the system in which the root cause element functions and interacts. For that, you have to schedule another team meeting and start a ST session. The outcome of this session shall be a Closed Loop Diagram (CLD) which should also include some Stock and Flow concepts for future possible modeling. If you use Vensim PLC to create your CLD, of course I will give higher % marks. However, any fashion od a professional CLD would be deemed acceptable.
- As you know, stand-alone CLDs cannot convey the deeper message for the novice. Hence, you have to incorporate and interpretation of your CLD explaining its elements' causalities, feedbacks, delays, etc. The interpretation should also be reiterated in your conclusion.
- Identify elements that require further and elaborate attention for policy makers. Where should they focus and put more efforts in?
- List up all the lessons learned from COVID-19 that could be universally applied in future.
- Put everything together in form of a presentation. (Word document)
- Your presentation shall contain all the aforementioned components, and in addition, it shall encompass an executive summary at the beginning.
10 - 15 pages incl. cover page and references
Adhere to APA citing and referencing format
Attachment:- The Science of Sustainability.rar