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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... Dialectical Methods of Inquiry Scenario Technique Systemic Questioning Circular Dialogues Critical Systems Heuristics Index 123 136 153 163 184 199 217 241 262 273 284 292 303 321 acknowledgments Thinking systemically is inherently ...
... and Testing is a well-established method that homes in on them using a mixture of multiple stakeholder perspectives, strategic questioning, and dialectic. It addresses the following questions: • Who are the stakeholders Introduction 8.
... Dialectical Methods of Inquiry This chapter describes three methods of inquiry that deliberately seek out differences rather than similarities in order to deepen understanding of a situation. These methods are Option one-and-a-half ...
... Dialectical Methods of Inquiry address the following questions: • What are the different ways in which people see or can see a situation? • What are the exceptions or contradictions to the way in which people see or can see a situation ...
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