The Boston Indicators Project, a joint effort of The Boston Foundation and the City of Boston, Massachusetts, used systems thinking in their 2002 report, Creativity & Innovation: A Bridge to the Future. The Foundation worked with systems thinking consultants (Daniel Aronson, Four Profit Inc; Phil Clawson, Community Matters Group; and Brendan Miller and Osamu Uehara of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
to help find a core theme in the changes in the 200 indicators related
to the greater Boston area's economic strength, civic life, community
fabric, health status, diversity, and other areas. As a result, the
report highlights the connections between economic innovation,
transportation, the cost of living, diversity, demographics, and many
other areas.