Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospection: A 30-Year Retrospective - Brossura

Checkland, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0471986054 ISBN 13: 9780471986058

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Riassunto

Dieses Buch ist ein praktischer Leitfaden zur SSM (Soft Systems Methodology). Es entwickelt Ideen von Systems Thinking und Systems Practice weiter, indem es aufzeigt, wie diese heutzutage in Industrie und Wirtschaft eingesetzt werden. Mit Hilfe von Fallstudien demonstriert Checkland, wie man SSM anwendet und welche Lehren aus diesen verschiedenen Anwendungen zu ziehen sind. Hinzugekommen ist ein neues Kapitel über Soft Sytems Methodology, das diskutiert, warum SSM heute wichtiger ist denn je. Klar und verständlich geschrieben, von einem international renommierten Autor, dessen Schriften in verschiedensten Bereichen Anwendung finden. (09/98)

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Checkland is the recipient of the 'Most Distinguished and Outstanding Contributor' Award of the British Computer Society Methodologies Group, 1994 Recipient of the Gold Medal of the UK Systems Society for 'Outstanding Contribution to Systems Thinking' and 1997 Recipient of a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Now retired from full time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research and writing.

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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." Hamish Rennie, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1992 Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, highly successful in technical problems, could be used by managers coping with the unfolding complexities of organizational life. The straightforward transfer of SE to the broader situations of management was not possible, but by insisting on a combination of systems thinking strongly linked to real-world practice Checkland and his collaborators developed an alternative approach - Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) - which enables managers of all kinds and at any level to deal with the subtleties and confusions of the situations they face. This work established the now accepted distinction between 'hard' systems thinking, in which parts of the world are taken to be 'systems' which can be 'engineered', and 'soft' systems thinking in which the focus is on making sure the process of inquiry into real-world complexity is itself a system for learning. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (1981) and Soft Systems Methodology in Action (1990) together with an earlier paper Towards a Systems-based Methodology for Real-World Problem Solving (1972) have long been recognized as classics in the field. Now-Peter Checkland has looked back over the three decades of SSM development, brought the account of it up to date, and reflected on the whole evolutionary process which has produced a mature SSM. SSM: A 30-Year Retrospective, here included with Soft Systems Methodology in Action closes a chapter on what is undoubtedly the most significant single research programme on the use of systems ideas in problem solving. Now retired from full-time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research as a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471986054
• ISBN 13: 9780471986058
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 418
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