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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... Diagrams System Dynamics Social Network Analysis Outcome Mapping Process Monitoring of Impacts Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing vii 16 31 45 60 75 92 108 Part two Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Contents.
... analysis. • Teachers trying to teach their students how to think and learn about addressing and resolving “wicked problems.” What. Do. We. Mean. by. Systemic? The question can be answered in many ways. A Web search will bring up hundreds of ...
... analysis of the result leads to learning. This implies, at least to us, that using a multiple-methodology approach (either the principles or the whole method) in a particular inquiry can often be better than using a singlemethodology ...
... Analysis Social Network Analysis is a field of endeavor that maps the nature of relationships between actors. It is extensively used to understand the consequences (especially for information flow) of different strengths and depths of ...
... analysis, knowledge management, and the complex systems fields. It distinguishes among “simple,” “complicated,” “complex,” and “chaotic” aspects of a situation and suggests how each aspect can be successfully managed. Cynefin is a ...
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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams,Richard Hummelbrunner Limited preview - 2010 |
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