**1. Introduction**

Breaking down complex problems into constituent elements is often the accepted method of handling of complex assignments and questions. However, engaging in such deconstruction also often blurs perception of the problem's larger context. As stated by Senge [1]: "Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes, a framework for seeing interrelationships and repeated patterns of events rather than just isolated incidences, seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots". It provides a scaffolding of principles, specifically tools and techniques developed in recent years, and is a discipline that seeks to discover the constructs underlying the complex, thus enabling a perception capable of discerning potential significant improvements possible with a minimum of effort (the principle of leverage). It offers us a language that expands, changes, and reshapes our ordinary ways of thinking regarding complex issues.

Clearly systems thinking will prove vital to students and graduates of technology managemen<sup>t</sup> in their professional careers, helping them see and grasp multidisciplinary systems without necessarily being required to master the intricacies of each of their numerous parts.
