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  title info:
    title: Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide
  name:
    name part: Reynolds, Martin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Holwell, Sue.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 309 p. 112 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In a world of increasing complexity, instant information availability and constant flux, systems approaches provide the opportunity of a tangible anchor of purpose and iterate learning. The five approaches outlined in the book offer a range of interchangeable tools with rigorous frameworks of application tried and tested in the ‘real world’. The frameworks of each approach form a powerful toolkit to explore the dynamics of how societies emerge, how organisations create viability, how to facilitate chains of argument through causal mapping, how to embrace a multiplicity of perspectives identifying purposeful activity and how to look for the bigger picture across multiple disciplines. Systems Approaches offers an excellent first introduction for those seeking to understand what ‘systems thinking’ is all about as well as why the tools discussed herein should be applied to management and professional practice. This book provides a practical guide, and the chapters stand alone in explaining and developing each approach.
  table of contents: Introducing Systems Approaches -- System Dynamics -- The Viable System Model -- Strategic Options Development and Analysis -- Soft Systems Methodology -- Critical Systems Heuristics -- Epilogue: Systems Approaches and Systems Practice.
  note: edited by Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Computers and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Computers and Society
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science, general
  classification: QA76.76.A65
  classification: 004
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      title: Springer eBooks
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