Systems analysis: A tool subject or judgment demystified?

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Vickers

• Book ID: 104637048
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 448 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-2687
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00137504

✦ Synopsis

The article distinguishes between professional schools and academic disciplines; traces six academic constituents which contribute to the study of the profession of human governance; and criticizes the tendency of systems analysis to become identified with mathematical modeling and thus to obscure both the area in which verbal expression transcends mathematical expression and also the difference between systems modeling as a technique and systems thinking as a conceptual orientation.