Systems Thinking: Creative Holism For Managers
by Michael C. Jackson /
2017 / English / PDF
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If you are a manager or someone aspiring to be a manager, at whatever stage you are in your study of systems thinking, this book is designed to help. If you are new to the ideas, then it should serve as a solid introduction. If you are familiar with a few of the ideas, but know little about how they are related or can be used to manage organizations, then the book will give you a more rigorous understanding of holism and how to use systems ideas in practice.
If you understand some systems approaches but not others, then the book will expand your knowledge and enable you to be creative in your choice and use of systems methodologies and methods.
You will also be able to use the book as a guide to further reading about systems thinking.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I Holism and Systems Practice
1 The Systems Language
2 Applied Systems Thinking
3 Creativity and Systems
Part II Systems Approaches
Type A Improving Goal Seeking and Viability
4 Hard Systems Thinking
5 System Dynamics: The Fifth Discipline
6 Organizational Cybernetics
7 ComplexityTheory
Type B Exploring Purposes
8 Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing
9 Interactive Planning
10 Soft Systems Methodology
Type C Ensuring Fairness
11 Critical Systems Heuristics
12 Team Syntegrity
13 Postmodern Systems Thinking
Part III Creative Holism
14 Total Systems Intervention
15 Critical Systems Practice
References
Conclusion
Index
