Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471986062 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Useful for my work. Zentao said Where it all began. Well, since I've been on a bit of a 'systems' binge lately, I might as well review this old gemCheckland's book was the first to introduce the differentiation between 'soft' and 'hard' systems analysis. Soft analysis is much more akin to a general, somewhat philosophic. Checkland's masterpiece Luke J. Houghton When I first read this book I thought it to be revolutionary, ahead of it's time (as others have) and insightful. Despite the fact that Checkland has in large moved away from the ideas and the model of this book - to me it represents the original vision of SSM (soft sy
"a primer and hidden gem" (Health Service Journal, 20 June 2002)
Now retired from full-time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research as a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow.. Now Peter Checkland has looked back over the three decades of SSM development, brought the account of it up to date, and reflected on the whole evolutionary process which has produced a mature SSM. The straightforward transfer of SE to the broader situations of management was not possible, but by insisting on a combination of systems thinking strongly linked to real-world practice Checkland and his collaborators developed an alternative approach - Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) - which enables managers of all kinds and at any level to deal with the subtleties and conf