Design Systems and Services

What is System?

1.   A set of detailed methods, procedures and routines created to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem.

2.   An organized, purposeful structure that consists of interrelated and interdependent elements (components, entities, factors, members, parts etc.). These elements continually influence one another (directly or indirectly) to maintain their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the system.

            All systems have inputs, outputs and feedback mechanisms, maintain an internal steady-state (called homeostasis) despite a changing external environment, display properties that are different than the whole (called emergent properties) but are not possessed by any of the individual elements, and have boundaries that are usually defined by the system observer.

Systems

The first matter to be considered in a research is to observe and analyse the systems. A thorough analysis and observation on the area selected is important to know the systems. There are so many things around which contain systems depend on what scope it is looked.

This is my understanding about system:

·         Basic Principles:

-Everything is connected to everything else

-You cannot eliminate the observer

-Most truths are relative

-Most views are complementary

·         Defining Systems:

-Elements of a system description

-Example systems

-Purposefulness, openness, hardness

·         Describing systems:

-Choosing a boundary

-Describing behaviour   

reference:

(2016). Business dictionary: system. [Online]  Available on:

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/system.html [Accessed on: 26 February 2016]