Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's ToolkitSystems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as "recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose. Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own strategic needs. |
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... achieve that behavior change? • How do these behavior changes affect our role, and which changes do we have to make ... achieving the intended results of an intervention? • What are the consequences for achieving effects if those ...
... achieve a maximum leverage effect in changing the development patterns of their area? • How can local and regional stakeholders ensure that the chosen development strategy will be conducive to the sustainable development of the whole ...
... achieve the purpose? • How does information flow through the situation? • Is the right information available at the most appropriate level of a situation's hierarchy of tasks? Part. three: Learning. About. Situations. There are data, there ...
... achieved? Soft Systems Methodology Soft Systems Methodology brings together alternative ways of viewing situations that can be used to address problem situations. It addresses the following questions: • What are the different ways in ...
... achieve deeper learning. Acknowledging perspectives also generates better insights into the actual behavior of programs in real life. That is because people usually behave on the basis of their perceptions of what is or what could be ...
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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams,Richard Hummelbrunner Limited preview - 2010 |
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams,Richard Hummelbrunner No preview available - 2010 |