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.
... maps how components of a situation relate to each other. This method is used to explore nonlinear interrelationships. It addresses the following questions: • What are the key variables in the situation that interests us? • How do they ...
... Mapping Outcome Mapping is a method from the evaluation field that explores the way in which interventions contribute to a result and in particular the way in which changes in behavior of certain stakeholders contribute to a result. It ...
... map relationships and it may be fine to acknowledge that there will be different perspectives on those relationships, those relationships and perspectives are not neutral; someone somewhere decides which are most important. Boundaries ...
... map, consistent with your orientation. Systemic family therapy was one of the first applications of systems thinking for inducing social change. These therapists made explicit use of the links between the reality constructions ...
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