Feedback loop

Examples of Feedback loop in the following topics:

• Closing the Feedback Loop

  • If done early, this feedback loop ensures that a correct decision is ultimately made.
  • As part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop, the event is said to "feed back" into itself.
  • Feedback loop: The complete causal path that leads from the initial detection of the gap to the subsequent modification of the gap.
  • Monitoring of solutions early on will help you close the feedback loop by altering your decisions, if you notice a deviation of results from your expectations.
  • Explain the role of the feedback loop in decision making and the different types of feedback associated with it

• Control of Homeostasis

  • Homeostasis is typically achieved via negative feedback loops, but can be affected by positive feedback loops, set point alterations, and acclimatization.
  • Homeostasis is maintained by negative feedback loops within the organism.
  • Any homeostatic process that changes the direction of the stimulus is a negative feedback loop.
  • Negative feedback loops are the predominant mechanism used in homeostasis.
  • When this happens, the feedback loop works to maintain the new setting.

• Disease as Homeostatic Imbalance

  • If positive and negative feedback loops are affected or altered, homeostatic imbalance and resultant complications can occur.
  • As an organism ages, weakening of feedback loops gradually results in an unstable internal environment.
  • Heart failure is the result of negative feedback mechanisms that become overwhelmed, allowing destructive positive feedback mechanisms to compensate for the failed feedback mechanisms.
  • Negative feedback between insulin and glucagon levels controls blood sugar homeostasis.
  • Diabetes is normally treated with insulin injections, which replaces the missing negative feedback of normal insulin secretions.

• Causes of Banking Crises

  • Banking crises can be caused by inadequate governmental oversight, bank runs, positive feedback loops in the market and contagion.
  • Stock Market Positive Feedback Loops: One particularly interesting cause of banking disasters is a similar positive feedback loop effect in the stock markets, which was a much more dynamic factor in more recent banking crises (i.e. 2007-2009 sub-prime mortgage disaster).
  • As the market falls, investors create a positive feedback loop and self-fulfilling prophecy due to a lack of confidence that drives it down even further.

• Gastric Phase

  • As dietary protein is digested, it breaks down into smaller peptides and amino acids, which directly stimulate the G cells to secrete even more gastrin: a positive feedback loop that accelerates protein digestion.
  • Below pH of two, stomach acid inhibits the parietal cells and G cells: a negative feedback loop that winds down the gastric phase as the need for pepsin and HCl declines.

• Managing Up and Employee Feedback

  • Through encouraging employees across the organization to manage up, organizations capture the benefit of having an open feedback loop between work groups and their managers, where both parties can potentially improve their performance.
  • It can also be useful to provide feedback which can actively be applied to achieving these objectives.
  • Sharing Feedback – Aside from assessment metrics and objectives, good feedback also tends to include qualitative thinking.
  • More often comments and discussions are necessary for feedback to be useful.
  • Identify the value of empowering employees to provide feedback to managers

• Customer Feedback

  • Customer feedback can be collected via direct conversations with consumers, telephone or focus group interviews, surveys, and online communities.
  • Virtual online communities or private consumer panels: Technology has made it increasingly easier for companies to obtain feedback from their customers.
  • In exchange for their honest opinions and feedback, customers are incentivized for their time.
  • Recently, many organizations have implemented feedback loops that allow them to capture feedback at the point of experience.
  • Customer feedback can be gathered via focus group discussions that elicit their opinions and inquire about their experiences.

• Feedback: Visual and Verbal Cues

  • Your audience can provide you with immediate feedback; pay attention to the visual and verbal cues they give you in the moment.
  • Feedback could be as formal as handing out a presentation evaluation following your speech or presentation.
  • If you tell a joke or a funny anecdote, you expect laughter as your feedback.
  • The key takeaway is to remember that this feedback loop of immediate audience reaction plays out in real time as you speak, so it's up to you to be observant and think two to three steps ahead if you need to correct course based on your audience's feedback.
  • Define feedback and describe how you can receive audience feedback in the moment

• Homeostatic Control

  • Positive feedback is a mechanism in which an output is enhanced in order to maintain homeostasis.
  • Positive feedback mechanisms are designed to push levels out of normal ranges.
  • Regulation of blood pressure is an example of negative feedback.
  • Temperature control is another negative feedback mechanism.
  • Both internal and external events can induce negative feedback mechanisms.

• Internal and External Control

  • These are called feedback, concurrent control, and feedforward, respectively.
  • As part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop, actions are said to "feed back" into themselves.
  • Feedback serves as motivation for many people in the workplace.
  • Feedforward is not just pre-feedback, because feedback is always based on measuring an output and sending feedback on that output.
  • 'Feedback' exists between two parts when each affects the other.