Systemic Thinking Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes /

• Main Authors: Hester, Patrick T. (Author), Adams, Kevin MacG (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 26
• Subjects: Engineering.; Business.; Management science.; Complexity, Computational.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Social sciences.; Complexity.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Business and Management, general.; Social Sciences, general.

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...

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.