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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... 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 region? • Which strategic priorities may unleash these ...
... patterns. It was originally developed in family therapy. Beyond obtaining information, questions can also be used to trigger change in perception or generate new information and knowledge. It addresses the following questions: • How can ...
... patterns that emerge from those processes, with what consequences, and for whom? – Why does this matter? To whom? In what context? When addressing those questions, we need to consider the following aspects of interrelationships ...
... the limits of his or her own perspective. Thus thinking systemically about perspectives shifts the focus from seeking patterns and solving issues on the basis About Systems, Thinking Systemically, and Being Systemic 21.
A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner. focus from seeking patterns and solving issues on the basis of what happened before or somewhere else, toward seeking puzzles and creating new possibilities from what had been ...
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