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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... Systems, Thinking Systemically, and Being Systemic Describing and Analyzing Situations Causal Loop Diagrams System Dynamics Social Network Analysis Outcome Mapping Process Monitoring of Impacts Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing ...
... 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 collaborative. More people were involved vi contents.
A Practitioner's Toolkit Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner. acknowledgments Thinking systemically is inherently collaborative. More people were involved in this book than the two names on the cover. What ended up on these pages is our ...
... systems thinking, its origins, and major parts of the field. And it connects with the methods described throughout the book. • Last but not least, it is a learning tool: the methods are not intended to serve as “recipes” or standard ...
... systems thinking leads to far more sustainable results than simplistic thinking. • Development or community workers ... systems and systems thinking, three features emerge as common threads to all methods and approaches: An understanding ...
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