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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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The Long Wave
Dozens of people are eager to explain the collapse of the Asian Tiger economies. Few of them predicted it. Other economic implosions, from the 1995 failure of Britain’s venerable Barings Bank to the 1987 dive in the US stock market, have been explained primarily after the fact. Few if any explanations for these phenomena postulate any connection between the rightward political slide and the edgy...
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The Long Wave
Dozens of people are eager to explain the collapse of the Asian Tiger economies. Few of them predicted it. Other economic implosions, from the 1995 failure of Britain’s venerable Barings Bank to the 1987 dive in the US stock market, have been explained primarily after the fact. Few if any explanations for these phenomena postulate any connection between the rightward political slide and the edgy...
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Images of Organization
RRP: £3.57 used (new edition in Jan 2025); Paperback: 496 pp; Publisher: SAGE Publications; ISBN 978-0761906346 `Morgan... has given us both a retrospect on the development of views of organizations, and a prospect on how organizations and their development may be viewed now and in the future. To help the reader, Morgan provides, in the final chapter, the evidence and theory base for his views...
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Images of Organization
RRP: £3.57 used (new edition in Jan 2025); Paperback: 496 pp; Publisher: SAGE Publications; ISBN 978-0761906346 `Morgan... has given us both a retrospect on the development of views of organizations, and a prospect on how organizations and their development may be viewed now and in the future. To help the reader, Morgan provides, in the final chapter, the evidence and theory base for his views...
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The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3: The Socio-Ecological Perspective: 0003
RRP: £78; Hardback: 736 pp; Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; ISBN 978-0812281941 - World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre...
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The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3: The Socio-Ecological Perspective: 0003
RRP: £78; Hardback: 736 pp; Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; ISBN 978-0812281941 - World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army who developed a number of radical, action-oriented organizational innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group," since the core members had been at the pre...
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Organizational Transformation & Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management and Organization
RRP: £63 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (21 May 1996) ISBN: 0471961825 Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this core issue...
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Organizational Transformation & Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management and Organization
RRP: £63 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (21 May 1996) ISBN: 0471961825 Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this core issue...
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A Primer to Critical Systems Heuristics for Action Researchers
Action Research, Critical Systems Heruistics and Social Planning, or: The Art of Promoting Improvement. Introduction. Action Research as I understand it is closely connected to processes of social planning. Sometimes it is a part of a planning process, sometimes it has to confront the consequences of planning efforts that did not sufficiently consider the needs of those affected. In the second...
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59pp
A Primer to Critical Systems Heuristics for Action Researchers
Action Research, Critical Systems Heruistics and Social Planning, or: The Art of Promoting Improvement. Introduction. Action Research as I understand it is closely connected to processes of social planning. Sometimes it is a part of a planning process, sometimes it has to confront the consequences of planning efforts that did not sufficiently consider the needs of those affected. In the second...
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Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice
RRP: £59 Paperback : 336 pages ISBN : 0201629836 Publisher : FT Press; 2nd edition (4 Oct. 1995) Language: : English A member of the PH OD Series! Organizational Learning II expands and updates the ideas and concepts of the authors' ground- breaking first book. With new examples and the most up-to-date information on the technical aspects of organizational and management theory, Argyris and Schon...
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Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice
RRP: £59 Paperback : 336 pages ISBN : 0201629836 Publisher : FT Press; 2nd edition (4 Oct. 1995) Language: : English A member of the PH OD Series! Organizational Learning II expands and updates the ideas and concepts of the authors' ground- breaking first book. With new examples and the most up-to-date information on the technical aspects of organizational and management theory, Argyris and Schon...
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Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics
RRP: £52 Paperback: 572 pp Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition SBN: 978-0471948384 Presents the basic approaches underlying Stafford Beer's thinking since the publication of his first book in 1959. Deals with a philosophy of science relevant to management and particularly with the nature of models. Demonstrates all major points through examples quoted of management science applications...
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Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics
RRP: £52 Paperback: 572 pp Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition SBN: 978-0471948384 Presents the basic approaches underlying Stafford Beer's thinking since the publication of his first book in 1959. Deals with a philosophy of science relevant to management and particularly with the nature of models. Demonstrates all major points through examples quoted of management science applications...
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Platform for Change
RRP: £52 Paperback: 484 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (4 April 1995) ISBN: 0471948403 "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...
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Platform for Change
RRP: £52 Paperback: 484 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (4 April 1995) ISBN: 0471948403 "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...
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Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity
RRP: £87 Hardcover: 380 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; First Edition edition (30 Aug. 1994) ISBN: 0471944513 The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a...
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Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity
RRP: £87 Hardcover: 380 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; First Edition edition (30 Aug. 1994) ISBN: 0471944513 The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a...
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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
RRP: £22 Paperback: 608 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; First Edition (24 Jun. 1994); ISBN 978-1857880601 This book is for people who want to learn, especially while treading the fertile ground of organizational life. The idea of a learning organization has become increasingly prominent over the last few years. This book's predecessor, The Fifth Discipline, helped give voice to that...
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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
RRP: £22 Paperback: 608 pp Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; First Edition (24 Jun. 1994); ISBN 978-1857880601 This book is for people who want to learn, especially while treading the fertile ground of organizational life. The idea of a learning organization has become increasingly prominent over the last few years. This book's predecessor, The Fifth Discipline, helped give voice to that...
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352pp
A Handbook of Interactive Management
Free PDF Download or through 2nd handbookseller: Hardcover : 352 pages ISBN : 0813824079 Publisher : Iowa State University Press; 2nd Revised edition (1 Mar. 1994) Language: : English This text first defines interactive management and then discusses the primary outcomes of IM use, the levels of success which may be selected, and phases of and roles important to its successful use. It also...
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352pp
A Handbook of Interactive Management
Free PDF Download or through 2nd handbookseller: Hardcover : 352 pages ISBN : 0813824079 Publisher : Iowa State University Press; 2nd Revised edition (1 Mar. 1994) Language: : English This text first defines interactive management and then discusses the primary outcomes of IM use, the levels of success which may be selected, and phases of and roles important to its successful use. It also...
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The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2: The Socio-Technical Perspective (Innovations in Organizations Series)
RRP: £79; Hardback: 640 pp; Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; ISBN 978-0812281934 - World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic...
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The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2: The Socio-Technical Perspective (Innovations in Organizations Series)
RRP: £79; Hardback: 640 pp; Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; ISBN 978-0812281934 - World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic...
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Organizational Fitness: Corporate Effectiveness Through Management Cybernetics
RRP: £34.85 Perfect Paperback: 376 pages Publisher: Campus Verlag (1 Dec. 1992) ISBN: 3593347830
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Organizational Fitness: Corporate Effectiveness Through Management Cybernetics
RRP: £34.85 Perfect Paperback: 376 pages Publisher: Campus Verlag (1 Dec. 1992) ISBN: 3593347830