Introduction

This website provides the foundations for system descriptions used to design enterprises or understand the systemic problems and systemic solutions to provide a safe and just place for humanity. The following picture shows the big picture:

The system concepts included in this website establish the basis for a system description that can be used to describe any-thing as a system.

These system concepts begin to be applied when a Thing is seen as a system-of-interest. This concept of creating the intention of seeing a thing as a system is the basis for our knowledge about systems.

This introduction covers the following topics:

• Background for a system description

• Why System Descriptions are useful

• The purpose of this website

• How to navigate this website

• What's new in this website.

• Website identification information

• About this website

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The key references used in this website and other websites are found in the Bibliography section.