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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’ll be suc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hester, Patrick T., Adams, Kevin MacG. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Subjects:
Business
Security Science And Technology
Management Science
Applied Dynamical Systems
Social Sciences
Society
Business And Management
Security Systems
Nonlinear Theories
Dynamics
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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

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