FACTS ABOUT PORTLAND
SYSTEMS VOCABULARY
SYSTEMS THINKING TOOLS
LEARNING JOURNEYS
SYSTEMS THINKERS
100
PORTLAND
What is the largest city in Oregon?
100
BOT
What is behavior over time?
100
also known as a fish-bone or cause-and-effect diagram
What is the double-Q diagram?
100
sees how concepts, facts, and ideas link together which can lead to new learning, discoveries, and innovations
What is makes meaningful connections within and between systems?
200
Forest Park
What is the largest park in Portland?
200
CLD
What is causal loop diagram?
200
staring point to build a clearer picture of a business story or issue
What is systems archetype?
200
old land-fill turned into a natural attraction
What is St Johns Prairie?
200
focuses on systems structure and avoids blaming when things go wrong.
What is structure generates behavior?
300
Powell's City of Books
What is the world's largest privately owned bookstore?
300
Drifting Goal
What is a gradual downward slide?
300
used for clarifying the effects of variables
What is a graphical function diagram?
300
home of the last non-nuclear, fast attack submarine.
What is the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry?
300
establishes benchmarks to help assess gradual improvement
What is successive approximation?
400
Willamette
What is the name of the river dividing Portland and Vancouver?
400
leverage point
What is an small area that yields large gains?
400
links a specific structure with its corresponding behavior
What is structure-behavior pairs?
400
airplane assembly happens here
What is the Boeing Corporation?
400
understands that often cause and effect are not closely related in time
What is recognizing the impact of time delays when exploring cause and effect relationships?
500
Mt. St Helen
What is the name of the volcano which erupted in the city?
500
Systems Archetypes
What are the 10 tools of systems thinking?
500
flight training for managers using interactive computer games
What is a mangement flight simulator?
500
played a key role in boosting awareness of water quality
What is Vancouver Water Resources Center?
500
see qualities of material or information that have built up or diminished over time
What is pays attention to accumulations and their rate of change?
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