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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... that holism was somewhat of an ideal. In reality, all situations, all inquiries are bounded in some way. The choice of boundaries really matters, since it determines what is relevant to a systemic inquiry—and what is Introduction 3.
A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner. determines what is relevant to a systemic inquiry—and what is not. And systems thinkers began to question who makes those decisions of what is “in” and what is “out”; the ...
... relevant content without offending the privacy of those in the dialogue? Circular Dialogue Circular Dialogue is a method that forces participants to take a critical stance on a topic by progressively shifting the focus of a discussion ...
... relevant. On the other hand, if we use the apple as a projectile, then other interrelationships become relevant such as weight and form. Our judgment of the appropriate size may differ. Thinking systemically about perspectives poses the ...
... relevant and irrelevant, what is important and what is unimportant, what is worthwhile and what is not, who gets what kind of resources for what purpose and whose interests are marginalized, who benefits and who is disadvantaged ...
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