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# Derek Cabrera's Systems Thinking Made Simple: A Four-Step Framework for Structuring Any Workflow

## Details

**Authors** Kanban Zone Blog

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** Kanban Zone Blog

**Kind of work** press

**Discipline** Business & Management

**Kind of engagement** press

[Read it](https://kanbanzone.com/2025/systems-thinking-made-simple-four-step-framework-for-structuring-any-workflow/)

## In authors' words

### What they set out to do (purpose)

A vendor blog post from Kanban Zone, a workflow-management software company, presenting Cabrera's framework as a way to structure team workflows.

### What they found (results)

DSRP is offered as a practical model for structuring thinking and thereby improving workflow and decision-making, with the company's own software positioned as a way to operationalize it.

## Commentary

### In short

Explains and applies DSRP as a practical four-step method for structuring work and Kanban-style workflows, teaching each pattern to a practitioner audience.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

## Refers to

- [Systems Thinking Made Simple](https://dsrpevidence.org/element/184)

**Added** 2026-08-03

**How to cite this** Kanban Zone Blog (2025). Derek Cabrera's Systems Thinking Made Simple: A Four-Step Framework for Structuring Any Workflow. Kanban Zone Blog.