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• [P255] The Conceptagon: A Framework for Systems Thinking and Systems Practice
  Author(s): Brian Sauser, John Boardman, Larry John, Robert Edson
  
  

  Abstract
  For the myriad scientific, technological, and socio-politico-economic specialties to be better integrated, the term system must add to its ubiquity a precision that facilitates communion among specialists. This paper, building on the body of Systems Thinking knowledge and cognizant of the key problem-solving systems methodologies, presents a new framework, the Conceptagon, and illustrates its use by describing its application to a case study drawing on the United States Department of Defense Biometrics Enterprise.

  
   

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