I very much like your article and the concepts necessary to support it. At the core, not anyone needs to have the recipe of system thinking for the community to be effective. What’s needed are the emergent properties of these communities align with the the constructs of system thinking.

A few weeks ago, I communicated to a colleague supervisor one of the indicators I knew my organization was on a good track was when my finance manager was able to deliver my org’s elevator pitch on why and how we do what we do on the drop of a hat and without any prep. This colleague asked, “what do you do to make that happen? “. He was looking for the single short answer. I couldn’t give him a short answer. In other words, I couldn’t suggest the recipe.

Systems intelligence is an emergent property of the system. How it’s built depends on many things that might include specifically applying System Thinking. But even without specially deploying System Thinking academics, people like my finance manager employ the ideals at some level and improve the whole org’s intelligence.