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Systemisches Management, Evolution, Selbstorganisation
RRP: 49,00 € Hardback 342 pages ISBN : 3258074941 Publisher : Haupt Verlag AG (1 Aug. 2009) Language : German Dieses Buch richtet sich an jene Führungskräfte, die den grundlegenden Charakter der Organisationen, in denen sie handeln, besser verstehen wollen. Die Organisationen einer modernen Gesellschaft sind zum größten Teil hochkomplexe Systeme, die wir nicht - wie weithin üblich - als Maschinen...
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Systemisches Management, Evolution, Selbstorganisation
RRP: 49,00 € Hardback 342 pages ISBN : 3258074941 Publisher : Haupt Verlag AG (1 Aug. 2009) Language : German Dieses Buch richtet sich an jene Führungskräfte, die den grundlegenden Charakter der Organisationen, in denen sie handeln, besser verstehen wollen. Die Organisationen einer modernen Gesellschaft sind zum größten Teil hochkomplexe Systeme, die wir nicht - wie weithin üblich - als Maschinen...
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The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model
RRP: £25.39 Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: Wiley (24 July 2009) ISBN: 0470060565 The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested...
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The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model
RRP: £25.39 Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: Wiley (24 July 2009) ISBN: 0470060565 The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested...
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
RRP: £35 Paperback : 424 pages ISBN : 0321658396 Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (10 July 2009) Language: : English Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile...
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
RRP: £35 Paperback : 424 pages ISBN : 0321658396 Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (10 July 2009) Language: : English Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile...
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The SCiO Organisational Maturity model
There will be a SCiO sub-group update, with an interactive element, this time instead of a workshop. Dave Mettam will be updating us on the Organisational Maturity Model produced for SCiO by the OMM sub-group.
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The SCiO Organisational Maturity model
There will be a SCiO sub-group update, with an interactive element, this time instead of a workshop. Dave Mettam will be updating us on the Organisational Maturity Model produced for SCiO by the OMM sub-group.
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Recursive Structures, Ethics, Leadership…. & Ethos
This session will look at the way that recursive structures create dilemmas for organisations, how these dilemmas translate into ethical problems for the organisations and individuals involved and the role of leadership in resolving these ethical dilemmas. The argument is that this is a normal process for complex organisations and that using a recursive model provides a framework for understanding...
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Recursive Structures, Ethics, Leadership…. & Ethos
This session will look at the way that recursive structures create dilemmas for organisations, how these dilemmas translate into ethical problems for the organisations and individuals involved and the role of leadership in resolving these ethical dilemmas. The argument is that this is a normal process for complex organisations and that using a recursive model provides a framework for understanding...
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Building Strategy and Performance Through Time: The Critical Path
RRP: £14.50 Paperback: 139 pp Publisher: Business Expert Press; ISBN 978-1606490372 The fundamental challenge facing business leaders is how to drive performance into the future - the 'dynamics' of strategy. To tackle this effectively, they need a clear understanding of what causes performance to improve or deteriorate, and what power they have to change this trajectory for the better. Without...
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Building Strategy and Performance Through Time: The Critical Path
RRP: £14.50 Paperback: 139 pp Publisher: Business Expert Press; ISBN 978-1606490372 The fundamental challenge facing business leaders is how to drive performance into the future - the 'dynamics' of strategy. To tackle this effectively, they need a clear understanding of what causes performance to improve or deteriorate, and what power they have to change this trajectory for the better. Without...
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Modelling for Development (S4) Networks
In this talk Jane will explain how she sees modelling working within Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model – System 4 activity and how System 4 modellers can network across the recursions of a VSM based organisation to offer a service to the whole organisation. She will look at what has been achieved so far and what the next challenges are in building a fully functional S4 modelling service.
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Modelling for Development (S4) Networks
In this talk Jane will explain how she sees modelling working within Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model – System 4 activity and how System 4 modellers can network across the recursions of a VSM based organisation to offer a service to the whole organisation. She will look at what has been achieved so far and what the next challenges are in building a fully functional S4 modelling service.
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Thinking in Systems: a Primer
RRP: £9.16 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co (20 July 2017) ISBN: 1603580557 Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the...
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Thinking in Systems: a Primer
RRP: £9.16 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co (20 July 2017) ISBN: 1603580557 Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the...
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Coaching: Approaches And Perspectives
RRP: £27 Paperback : 240 pages ISBN : 1412969255 Publisher : Corwin; 1st edition (1 Oct. 2008) Language: : English Coaching is one of the hottest topics in education today. Yet many educators are confused about the roles and responsibilities of coaches. This handbook will gather together the leading experts in coaching and provide a snapshot of the current coaching landscape. Key features...
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Coaching: Approaches And Perspectives
RRP: £27 Paperback : 240 pages ISBN : 1412969255 Publisher : Corwin; 1st edition (1 Oct. 2008) Language: : English Coaching is one of the hottest topics in education today. Yet many educators are confused about the roles and responsibilities of coaches. This handbook will gather together the leading experts in coaching and provide a snapshot of the current coaching landscape. Key features...
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Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime.... and a Manifesto for a Better Way
OOP available £2+ Paperback : 224 pages ISBN : 0955008182 Publisher : Triarchy Press; First Edition (11 April 2008) Language : English With the UK's public sector in crisis, John Seddon's fiercely outspoken new book is already causing a stir. Wrong-headed, ill thought-out reform from a succession of monetarist governments has led to unwieldy systems of mass production that do little for the people...
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Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime.... and a Manifesto for a Better Way
OOP available £2+ Paperback : 224 pages ISBN : 0955008182 Publisher : Triarchy Press; First Edition (11 April 2008) Language : English With the UK's public sector in crisis, John Seddon's fiercely outspoken new book is already causing a stir. Wrong-headed, ill thought-out reform from a succession of monetarist governments has led to unwieldy systems of mass production that do little for the people...
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"Mind the Gap!" - Modelling for what isn't
Mostly we tend to think about what "is", or what we think we think should be. This carries over into both problem solving and to analysing and designing organisations. Many modelling approaches have this bias towards modelling what is and I'd argue that this is true of both SSM and most approaches to VSM. In some other traditions of looking at the world, there is a deep vein of thinking focusing...
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"Mind the Gap!" - Modelling for what isn't
Mostly we tend to think about what "is", or what we think we think should be. This carries over into both problem solving and to analysing and designing organisations. Many modelling approaches have this bias towards modelling what is and I'd argue that this is true of both SSM and most approaches to VSM. In some other traditions of looking at the world, there is a deep vein of thinking focusing...
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Strategic Management Dynamics
RRP: £30.00 PDF download: 720 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (7 Dec. 2007) ISBN: 0470060670 Award winning author Kim Warren presents his new book: Strategic Management Dynamics - a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management Dynamics builds on, and goes substantially beyond the existing strategy textbooks with its focus on understanding and managing how...
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Strategic Management Dynamics
RRP: £30.00 PDF download: 720 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (7 Dec. 2007) ISBN: 0470060670 Award winning author Kim Warren presents his new book: Strategic Management Dynamics - a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management Dynamics builds on, and goes substantially beyond the existing strategy textbooks with its focus on understanding and managing how...
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Empowerment - The value of ‘Soft Systems Methodology’ in action research – student dilemmas
Overview the research approach I adopted as part of a DBA programme Explore the value of ‘ Soft Systems Methodolog y’ in the context of this study Discuss the student dilemma Reinforce the importance of good supervision to academic rigour
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Empowerment - The value of ‘Soft Systems Methodology’ in action research – student dilemmas
Overview the research approach I adopted as part of a DBA programme Explore the value of ‘ Soft Systems Methodolog y’ in the context of this study Discuss the student dilemma Reinforce the importance of good supervision to academic rigour
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Designing Governance Using VSM
In this paper, the authors look at the traditional model of governance and contrast it to governance as embodied in Beer's Viable System Model. They illustrate this by reference to three of their recent consultancy projects in designing governance structures and show how the VSM provided not just a useful and flexible design template, but also how it provided a variety of practical solutions to a...
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Designing Governance Using VSM
In this paper, the authors look at the traditional model of governance and contrast it to governance as embodied in Beer's Viable System Model. They illustrate this by reference to three of their recent consultancy projects in designing governance structures and show how the VSM provided not just a useful and flexible design template, but also how it provided a variety of practical solutions to a...
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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach
RRP: £35 Paperback : 466 pages ISBN : 0470012862 Publisher : Wiley; Pap/Cdr Edition (8 Aug. 2007) Language: : English "John Morecroft′s book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a...
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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach
RRP: £35 Paperback : 466 pages ISBN : 0470012862 Publisher : Wiley; Pap/Cdr Edition (8 Aug. 2007) Language: : English "John Morecroft′s book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a...
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Practitioner stories around the Conant- Ashby Theorem “Modelling is not an option, its mandatory” - but how do you do that?
Denis Adams will tell practitioner stories which illustrate some under-utilised ideas which though simple, usually have profound impacts on models-in-use and consequential actions. The emerging principles will raise questions about using many of the common tools of cybernetics systems thinking in forensic systemic exploration, for example: Why the ‘activity monitoring information to control action...
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Practitioner stories around the Conant- Ashby Theorem “Modelling is not an option, its mandatory” - but how do you do that?
Denis Adams will tell practitioner stories which illustrate some under-utilised ideas which though simple, usually have profound impacts on models-in-use and consequential actions. The emerging principles will raise questions about using many of the common tools of cybernetics systems thinking in forensic systemic exploration, for example: Why the ‘activity monitoring information to control action...
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Systems Approaches to Management
'out of print' but available at low prices from online 2nd hand booksellers; Hardback: 452 pp Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum; ISBN 978-0306474651 Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century. Systems Approaches to Management is the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It...
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Systems Approaches to Management
'out of print' but available at low prices from online 2nd hand booksellers; Hardback: 452 pp Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum; ISBN 978-0306474651 Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century. Systems Approaches to Management is the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It...
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Holistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success
RRP: £123 Hardcover: 538 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (8 May 2007) ISBN: 0471740632 This book presents two recently developed knowledge areas that can significantly improve the management and the performance of business enterprise: System Science and Cybernetics and Key Performance Areas. Included in this book are advanced (and evolving) methods and technologies for planning and budgeting...
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Holistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success
RRP: £123 Hardcover: 538 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (8 May 2007) ISBN: 0471740632 This book presents two recently developed knowledge areas that can significantly improve the management and the performance of business enterprise: System Science and Cybernetics and Key Performance Areas. Included in this book are advanced (and evolving) methods and technologies for planning and budgeting...
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The bubble strategy: A case study of dynamic, defensible processes of change in Salford
(Article available on Research Gate by making a personal request) International Journal of Public Sector Management 20(3), April 2007:178-191 This paper seeks to describe a “bubble strategy” to public sector change, based on the principles that a change initiative must be defensible and supportive of an alternative, entrepreneurial culture. Design/methodology/approach The research is developed...
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The bubble strategy: A case study of dynamic, defensible processes of change in Salford
(Article available on Research Gate by making a personal request) International Journal of Public Sector Management 20(3), April 2007:178-191 This paper seeks to describe a “bubble strategy” to public sector change, based on the principles that a change initiative must be defensible and supportive of an alternative, entrepreneurial culture. Design/methodology/approach The research is developed...
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Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and Its Use Practitioners, Teachers and Students
RRP: £34 Paperback: 226 pages Publisher: John Wiley (23 Mar. 2007) ISBN: 0470025549 From the father of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Peter Checkland, comes a new, accessible text which clearly and concisely looks at SSM. The book leaves out all of the development detail and historical/intellectual material which can be found in Checkland's other classic works, but contains the practical...
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Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and Its Use Practitioners, Teachers and Students
RRP: £34 Paperback: 226 pages Publisher: John Wiley (23 Mar. 2007) ISBN: 0470025549 From the father of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Peter Checkland, comes a new, accessible text which clearly and concisely looks at SSM. The book leaves out all of the development detail and historical/intellectual material which can be found in Checkland's other classic works, but contains the practical...
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Development of the Ladder Governance model for IT Service Delivery
Patrick Hoverstadt and Jane Searles will describe the development of ladder governance in a service delivery case study.
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Development of the Ladder Governance model for IT Service Delivery
Patrick Hoverstadt and Jane Searles will describe the development of ladder governance in a service delivery case study.
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The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
RRP: £9.04 Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Penguin (7 Sept. 2006) ISBN: 9780141020440 Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks utility. From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechneya, over the past fifteen years there has been a...
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The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
RRP: £9.04 Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Penguin (7 Sept. 2006) ISBN: 9780141020440 Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks utility. From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechneya, over the past fifteen years there has been a...
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The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization: Second edition
RRP: £25 Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Random House Business; 2Rev Ed edition (6 April 2006) ISBN: 9781905211203 Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation'. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the...
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The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization: Second edition
RRP: £25 Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Random House Business; 2Rev Ed edition (6 April 2006) ISBN: 9781905211203 Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation'. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the...
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Effective Top Management: Beyond the Failure of Corporate Governance and Shareholder Value
RRP: £43.58 Hardcover: 287 pages Publisher: Wiley VCH; 3rd ed. edition (4 April 2006) ISBN: 3527501177 This book is for everyone who doubts the correctness of current management practices and is looking for alternatives. Here, Professor Malik develops a radical opponent view, placing the company center stage rather than the group interests. This allows a valid logic to be developed for correct and...
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Effective Top Management: Beyond the Failure of Corporate Governance and Shareholder Value
RRP: £43.58 Hardcover: 287 pages Publisher: Wiley VCH; 3rd ed. edition (4 April 2006) ISBN: 3527501177 This book is for everyone who doubts the correctness of current management practices and is looking for alternatives. Here, Professor Malik develops a radical opponent view, placing the company center stage rather than the group interests. This allows a valid logic to be developed for correct and...
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
RRP: £12.61 Paperback : 86 pages ISBN : 1576753565 Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1st edition (30 Oct. 2005) Language: : English Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities...
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
RRP: £12.61 Paperback : 86 pages ISBN : 1576753565 Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1st edition (30 Oct. 2005) Language: : English Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities...
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SD Case Study
Transforming Turkey’s Tax Administration Through Systems Thinking
Transforming Turkey’s Tax Administration Through Systems Thinking PRACTITIONER R. Fatih ÖZÇELİK, Fifth Thinking Ltd. APPROX. DATE 2003-2005 SITUATION AND CONTEXT Turkey’s tax administration had long struggled with inefficiencies, low taxpayer compliance, and an extensive informal economy. At the beginning of the project, annual tax revenues were around $50 billion, a figure considered inadequate...
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Transforming Turkey’s Tax Administration Through Systems Thinking
Transforming Turkey’s Tax Administration Through Systems Thinking PRACTITIONER R. Fatih ÖZÇELİK, Fifth Thinking Ltd. APPROX. DATE 2003-2005 SITUATION AND CONTEXT Turkey’s tax administration had long struggled with inefficiencies, low taxpayer compliance, and an extensive informal economy. At the beginning of the project, annual tax revenues were around $50 billion, a figure considered inadequate...
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A Brief Introduction to Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)
Critical systems heuristics(Ulrich 1983) is a framework for reflective practice based on practical philosophy and systems thinking. The name stands for three major concerns. The basic idea of CSH is to support boundary critique(reflective practice),or it can use boundary judgments for critical purposes against those who may not handle them so self-critically (emancipatory practice).
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A Brief Introduction to Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)
Critical systems heuristics(Ulrich 1983) is a framework for reflective practice based on practical philosophy and systems thinking. The name stands for three major concerns. The basic idea of CSH is to support boundary critique(reflective practice),or it can use boundary judgments for critical purposes against those who may not handle them so self-critically (emancipatory practice).
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
RRO: £10.83 Paperback : 368 pages ISBN : 193149858X Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Co; Illustrated Edition (1 Jun. 2004) Language: : English 'If you only read one book ... make this it!' L. Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism 'It is time for the world to re-read Limits to Growth! The message of 1972 is more real and relevant in 2004, and we wasted 30 valuable years of action by...
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
RRO: £10.83 Paperback : 368 pages ISBN : 193149858X Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Co; Illustrated Edition (1 Jun. 2004) Language: : English 'If you only read one book ... make this it!' L. Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism 'It is time for the world to re-read Limits to Growth! The message of 1972 is more real and relevant in 2004, and we wasted 30 valuable years of action by...
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The Action Learning Handbook: Powerful Techniques for Education, Professional Development and Training
RRP: £39.31 Paperback : 292 pages ISBN : 0415335116 Publisher : Routledge (6 Nov. 2003) Language : English Action learning is a continued process of learning and reflection with the support of a group of colleagues, working on real issues. The action learning method is increasingly used to bring innovation to many different fields of work. The principles of action learning can achieve improvement...
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The Action Learning Handbook: Powerful Techniques for Education, Professional Development and Training
RRP: £39.31 Paperback : 292 pages ISBN : 0415335116 Publisher : Routledge (6 Nov. 2003) Language : English Action learning is a continued process of learning and reflection with the support of a group of colleagues, working on real issues. The action learning method is increasingly used to bring innovation to many different fields of work. The principles of action learning can achieve improvement...
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Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers
RRP: £44 Hardcover: 378 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 Oct. 2003) ISBN: 0470845228 Too often, today's managers are sold simple solutions to complex problems. But as many soon discover, simplicity is rarely effective in the face of complexity, change and diversity. Despite apparent promise, quick-fix panaceas fail because they are not holistic or creative enough. They focus on parts of the...
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Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers
RRP: £44 Hardcover: 378 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (23 Oct. 2003) ISBN: 0470845228 Too often, today's managers are sold simple solutions to complex problems. But as many soon discover, simplicity is rarely effective in the face of complexity, change and diversity. Despite apparent promise, quick-fix panaceas fail because they are not holistic or creative enough. They focus on parts of the...
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Better Understanding Knowledge for Personal and Business Success
Learning, creativity, leadership and communities are all key to business success. All of these can be better understood in the context of data, information, knowledge and mental models. This paper makes some of these links and also shows how the additional understanding this gives can help in formulating solutions to common business and knowledge problems. This paper examines one of Max Boisot's...
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Better Understanding Knowledge for Personal and Business Success
Learning, creativity, leadership and communities are all key to business success. All of these can be better understood in the context of data, information, knowledge and mental models. This paper makes some of these links and also shows how the additional understanding this gives can help in formulating solutions to common business and knowledge problems. This paper examines one of Max Boisot's...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking
RRP: £18.40 used Paperback: 368 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International; ISBN 978-1857883114 [focus is causal loop mapping] Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to "see the forest for the trees". Only by taking a broad...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking
RRP: £18.40 used Paperback: 368 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International; ISBN 978-1857883114 [focus is causal loop mapping] Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to "see the forest for the trees". Only by taking a broad...
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Competitive Strategy Dynamics
RRP: £55 Hardcover: 352 pp Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-0471899495 This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These...
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Competitive Strategy Dynamics
RRP: £55 Hardcover: 352 pp Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-0471899495 This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These...
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Modelling Organisations using The Viable System Model
This paper is intended as a short introduction to the Viable System Model for those unfamiliar with it. It deals with some of the basic concepts embodied in the model, the modelling process, and its use in practice.
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Modelling Organisations using The Viable System Model
This paper is intended as a short introduction to the Viable System Model for those unfamiliar with it. It deals with some of the basic concepts embodied in the model, the modelling process, and its use in practice.
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On an Application of Critical Systems Heuristics in a Framework for Evaluation of Software Development Productivity
Chapter in Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age pp 239–246. [cost to download £19.95] The multiple dimensions of the factors affecting software development productivity represent a challenge for an interdisciplinary research to their nature. Because of the significant role played by people, software engineering is already one of the computer science disciplines that is closest to the...
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On an Application of Critical Systems Heuristics in a Framework for Evaluation of Software Development Productivity
Chapter in Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age pp 239–246. [cost to download £19.95] The multiple dimensions of the factors affecting software development productivity represent a challenge for an interdisciplinary research to their nature. Because of the significant role played by people, software engineering is already one of the computer science disciplines that is closest to the...
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Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited: Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty and Conflict
RRP: £47.30 Paperback: 386 pages Publisher: Wiley; 2nd edition (17 Oct. 2001) ISBN: 0471495239 Now, more than ever, planning and managing in the real world is beset by change and uncertainty. Knowledge is incomplete, values are in dispute, decisions of others are often unpredictable. Sheathed in opaque technicalities, inflexible and over--ambitious, the highly mathematical methods of analysing...
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Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited: Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty and Conflict
RRP: £47.30 Paperback: 386 pages Publisher: Wiley; 2nd edition (17 Oct. 2001) ISBN: 0471495239 Now, more than ever, planning and managing in the real world is beset by change and uncertainty. Knowledge is incomplete, values are in dispute, decisions of others are often unpredictable. Sheathed in opaque technicalities, inflexible and over--ambitious, the highly mathematical methods of analysing...
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General Systems Theory: Ideas and Applications
RRP: £63.92 Paperback: 474 pp Publisher: WSPC ISBN: 978-9810241766 The world in which classical positivistic science and technology obtained great success has vanished. However, the way of thinking promoted by that epoch still lingers in our social consciousness, sometimes as a burden. To conquer the shortcomings of classical analytical science in the modern, ever more complex world...
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General Systems Theory: Ideas and Applications
RRP: £63.92 Paperback: 474 pp Publisher: WSPC ISBN: 978-9810241766 The world in which classical positivistic science and technology obtained great success has vanished. However, the way of thinking promoted by that epoch still lingers in our social consciousness, sometimes as a burden. To conquer the shortcomings of classical analytical science in the modern, ever more complex world...
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Soft Systems Methodology: Conceptual Model Building and Its Contribution
RRP: £56 Hardcover: 284 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (12 Jun. 2001) ISBN: 9780471894896 Conceptual model building is accepted as a key phase in Soft Systems Methodology. Despite the recognition of the importance of the SSM, students are still experiencing difficulty with the basic process of conceptual model building. This book addresses that issue.
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Soft Systems Methodology: Conceptual Model Building and Its Contribution
RRP: £56 Hardcover: 284 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (12 Jun. 2001) ISBN: 9780471894896 Conceptual model building is accepted as a key phase in Soft Systems Methodology. Despite the recognition of the importance of the SSM, students are still experiencing difficulty with the basic process of conceptual model building. This book addresses that issue.
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A Brief Guide to Interactive Planning and Idealized Design
A breif guide to Interactive Planning by Russel Ackoff
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A Brief Guide to Interactive Planning and Idealized Design
A breif guide to Interactive Planning by Russel Ackoff
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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
RRP: £45.30 Hardcover: 768 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (16 Dec. 2000) ISBN: 0071179895 Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve...
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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
RRP: £45.30 Hardcover: 768 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (16 Dec. 2000) ISBN: 0071179895 Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve...
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Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice (Contemporary Systems Thinking)
RRP: from £65 2nd hand; Hardcover: 447 pp; Publisher: Kluwer Academic; ISBN: 978-0306464881 This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st Century. Section One focuses on the philosophy of systemic intervention; Section Two on methodology; and Section Three on practice. Throughout the book, arguments are provided for why...
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Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice (Contemporary Systems Thinking)
RRP: from £65 2nd hand; Hardcover: 447 pp; Publisher: Kluwer Academic; ISBN: 978-0306464881 This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st Century. Section One focuses on the philosophy of systemic intervention; Section Two on methodology; and Section Three on practice. Throughout the book, arguments are provided for why...
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VSM Case Study
Using VSM to develop an approach to strengthen the Colombian public sector
PROJECT Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to develop an approach to strengthening the public sector at a national level PRACTITIONER Patrick Hoverstadt, Fractal APPROX. DATE 2000 SITUATION AND CONTEXT The enormous and endemic problems of trying to establish control and stability in a volatile political environment led to this World Bank sponsored project for the Colombian government...
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VSM Case Study
Using VSM to develop an approach to strengthen the Colombian public sector
PROJECT Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to develop an approach to strengthening the public sector at a national level PRACTITIONER Patrick Hoverstadt, Fractal APPROX. DATE 2000 SITUATION AND CONTEXT The enormous and endemic problems of trying to establish control and stability in a volatile political environment led to this World Bank sponsored project for the Colombian government...
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
[wikipedia] " The leverage points, first published in 1997, were inspired by Meadows' attendance at a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) meeting in the early 1990s, where she realized a very large new system was being proposed but the mechanisms to manage it were ineffective. Meadows, who worked in the field of systems analysis, proposed a scale of places to intervene in a system...
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
[wikipedia] " The leverage points, first published in 1997, were inspired by Meadows' attendance at a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) meeting in the early 1990s, where she realized a very large new system was being proposed but the mechanisms to manage it were ineffective. Meadows, who worked in the field of systems analysis, proposed a scale of places to intervene in a system...
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Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
RRP: £34 Hardcover : 352 pages ISBN : 9780195123876 Publisher : OUP USA; First Edition (7 Oct. 1999) Language: : English Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world...
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Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
RRP: £34 Hardcover : 352 pages ISBN : 9780195123876 Publisher : OUP USA; First Edition (7 Oct. 1999) Language: : English Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world...
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Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospective
RRP: £45.53 Paperback: 418 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (30 May 1999) ISBN: 9780471986058 Soft Systems Methodology in Action "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."...
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Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospective
RRP: £45.53 Paperback: 418 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (30 May 1999) ISBN: 9780471986058 Soft Systems Methodology in Action "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."...
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Confrontation Analysis: How to Win Operations Other Than War
FREE via website or 2nd hand from over £100 Paperback: 330 pages Publisher: Evidence Based Research, Incorporated, 1999 (1 May 1999) ISBN: 1893723003 This book is based on research commissioned by the United Kingdom's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 1997 into how Confrontation Analysis might be applied to Peace Support Operations. The book presents a simple idea: a Peace...
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Confrontation Analysis: How to Win Operations Other Than War
FREE via website or 2nd hand from over £100 Paperback: 330 pages Publisher: Evidence Based Research, Incorporated, 1999 (1 May 1999) ISBN: 1893723003 This book is based on research commissioned by the United Kingdom's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 1997 into how Confrontation Analysis might be applied to Peace Support Operations. The book presents a simple idea: a Peace...
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The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum in a learning organization (The Fifth Discipline)
RRP: £22 Paperback: 608 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; ISBN 978-1857882438 Since Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their...
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The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum in a learning organization (The Fifth Discipline)
RRP: £22 Paperback: 608 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; ISBN 978-1857882438 Since Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their...