Systemic Thinking Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes /

Whether you're an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically.  Problems (and messes) are everywhere and they're getting more complicated every day.  How we think about these problems determines whether or not we...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Main Authors: Hester, Patrick T. (Author), Adams, Kevin MacG (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Series:Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07629-4
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I: A Frame of Reference for Systemic Thinking
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Problems and Messes
  • 3 Systemic Thinking
  • 4 Systems Theory
  • Part II: A Methodology for Systemic Thinking
  • 5 The Who of Systemic Thinking
  • 6 The What of Systemic Thinking
  • 7 The Why of Systemic Thinking
  • 8 The Where of Systemic Thinking
  • 9 The How of Systemic Thinking
  • 10 The When of Systemic Thinking
  • 11 Putting It All Together-A Systemic Perspective
  • Appendix A: Systemic Thinking Self-Assessment
  • Index.