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RRP: £41.46 Paperback: 424 pages Publisher: JW; 1st edition (16 Sept. 1999) ISBN: 9780471986065 Systems Thinking, Systems Practice "Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology research for that decade." Hamish Rennie...

Occasional paper no.2, publisher Ontario Ministry of Labour, Ontario Quality of Working Life Centre, 1981, ISBN 9780774362863, 67pp, This paper consists of the first ever overview of socio-technical systems from its original formulation in the early Tavistock mining studies until the present. Socio-technical analysis is made at three levels - the primary work system; the whole organisation; and...

RRP: £84.95 Paperback: 563 pages Publisher: Productivity Press; New edition edition (1 Dec. 1981) ISBN: 0915299593 How do you apply the principles and tools of system dynamics to management, modeling, planning, and forecasting? The contributing authors of this anthology address this question in essays on complex corporate models, workload fluctuations, the "Honeywell experience," the growth...

RRP: £65.73 Paperback : 344 pages ISBN : 1883823447 Publisher : Pegasus Communications (1 Jan. 1980) Language: : English Elements of the Systems Dynamics Method explores how models of dynamic systems are made. The authors give practical advice about choosing a problem that will yield interesting results, what to include in the model and what to leave out, the desirable amount of detail, selecting...

RRP: £44 Paperback: 600 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (28 Mar. 1995) ISBN: 0471948373 This is the companion volume to Brain of the Firm and addresses the nature of viable systems, those capable of surviving. It does not use the neurophysiological basis elucidated in brain, but develops the same theory from first principles. This book declares that every enterprise is a system...

RRP: £23 Paperback: 279 pages Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.; 25 Silver anniversary ed edition (15 April 2001) ISBN-10: 0932633498 For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all...

RRP: £23.75 Paperback: 216 pages; Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (1 July 1974) ISBN: 9780674627512 A physical quantity can be expressed as the product of a number and a physical unit. A formula expresses a relationship between physical quantities. A necessary condition for a formula to be valid is that all terms have the same dimension, meaning every term in the formula could...

RRP: £45 Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (16 May 1995) ISBN: 047194839X "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The...

RRP: £44.53 Paperback : 208 pages ISBN : 0856440086 Publisher : Earth Island (1 Mar. 1972) Language: : English The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. Commissioned by the Club of Rome, the findings of the study were first presented at international gatherings in Moscow and Rio...