Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell (auth.), Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In a world of increasing complexity, instant information availability and constant flux, systems approaches provide the opportunity of a tangible anchor of purpose and iterate learning. The five approaches outlined in the book offer a range of interchangeable tools with rigorous frameworks of application tried and tested in the ‘real world’. The frameworks of each approach form a powerful toolkit to explore the dynamics of how societies emerge, how organisations create viability, how to facilitate chains of argument through causal mapping, how to embrace a multiplicity of perspectives identifying purposeful activity and how to look for the bigger picture across multiple disciplines.

Systems Approaches offers an excellent first introduction for those seeking to understand what ‘systems thinking’ is all about as well as why the tools discussed herein should be applied to management and professional practice. This book provides a practical guide, and the chapters stand alone in explaining and developing each approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introducing Systems Approaches....Pages 1-23
System Dynamics....Pages 25-85
The Viable System Model....Pages 87-133
Strategic Options Development and Analysis....Pages 135-190
Soft Systems Methodology....Pages 191-242
Critical Systems Heuristics....Pages 243-292
Epilogue: Systems Approaches and Systems Practice....Pages 293-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-309

✦ Subjects

Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computers and Society; Computer Science, general

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