Week Twelve Blog

How might you use the motion picture lens best to analyze a system? Are there some systems that lend themselves better to this for analysis than others? What examples can you give? Is this a depiction mode that you like or that makes sense to you vs. the first two we learned and you have applied?

The motion picture model of Banathy is the complete guide book for analyzing a system. It is obviously complex because of indefinite number of components in this system analysis. It is hard to cover everything in different time. It is super complex to monitor a system’s activities over time but motion picture model helps identifying system’s trends and behaviour in an iterative way. This model how a system operates, its input processing, transformation, output processing, and system guidance such as feedback, adjustment and change. It helps developing a continuous interaction with ever changing society, and establish coordination with societal systems that are relevant to the system.

Based on my knowledge and understanding from analyzing two different micro-and meso-systems it will be very hard to analyze a small system using this model. It may be useful in micro-system analysis only to find the relationship of a micro-system to a meso- or macro-system. I believe this model is better for the macro-systems to analyze. Educational system, health system etc are good examples for analyzing using this model. Unlike structure/function model analyze a system in a specific time this model is useful to identify the system behavior as a pattern or cyclic way over a long period of time. The depiction strategies are good in this model which organizes everything in a logical manner to analyze the system easily. The process makes adjustments and corrects for differences between the actual and desired output or changes the system itself. At this moment I am not as familiar as this model so it is hard to say whether it is the best model to analyze a HAS/EAS.

I think this model is more comprehensive that other two models. The micro-system analysis using System-Environment model was hard to analyze and meso-system analysis was easier that the micro-system analysis. The motion-picture model guides to analyze a system over time so it is hard to limit the analysis a much larger system than other two systems. The inputs, transformation, outputs, and system guidance and management give the specific blueprint to analyze a meta-system. Each process has several internal process to analyze. So it is very detail to analysis process. Feedback through system guidance and management process the outputs are identified for making adjustments for improving the system.  The limitation of this model to me is that it is easy to forget many smaller things that is important in system analysis such as any micro-system that might be critical in a macro-system. This process model helps a meta-system for long term adjustment and improve the efficiency of the system. As time passes I am getting more interested to learn system thinking and system analysis. It was very dry and confusing to me as this is the first time I have come across this topic but more I read the more I enjoy about it. Especially all the class activities we are using it in our real life experience and that makes it more enjoyable. I would admit that after I have enrolled this course I no longer see any system with my own lens the same way I saw before. It opened my eyes to a new world that I now enjoy more.