Student Resources

Competition rules & guidebooks | Competition timeline | Mapping a system | Research design essentials | Presentation resources | Peer support | Additional resources

This page catalogues important resources for Map the System participants to access throughout the duration of the competition.

Students may take part in Map the System as part of a course or independently. Students who are taking part in Map the System outside of a course are encouraged to take advantage of the non-course syllabus to help guide them through competition milestones.

This page will be updated throughout the competition as resources become available from our Map the System partners. If you are having trouble accessing any of these resources, please email Elham Mohammadi at mapthesystem@uwaterloo.ca for support.

More Print Resources on Systems Thinking 

Articles and Guides:

• Leveraging Change: The Power of Systems Thinking in Action | David Peter Stroh

• Systems Thinking: What, Why, When, Where, and How? | Micheal Goodman

• The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinkers   | Leyla Acaroglu 

• Systems One: An Introduction to Systems Thinking   | Draper L. Kauffman, Jr. 

• Introduction to Systems Thinking | Daniel H. Kim 

• Thinking in Systems   | Daniela Meadows (Available online) 

Books: 

• Embracing Complexity   | Boulton, J., P. Allen, et al

• Systems Thinking for Social Change   | David Peter Stroh (Available online) 

• The Systems Thinking Playbook   | Linda Booth Sweeney (Available in print) 

• Thinking in Systems   | Daniela Meadows (Available online) 

• The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change |  Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici

• Getting Beyond Better   | Sally Osberg and Roger Martin (Available online - audiobook)

• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take Links to an external site.| Paul Polman and Andrew Winston

• The Fifth Discipline   | Peter Senge (Available in print)