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Thinking Systems - Robin Asby

Thinking Systems

An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival

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Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2021
Triarchy Press (Verlag)
978-1-913743-32-1 (ISBN)
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An up-to-date introduction to Systems Thinking and review of its applications in business, government and Quantum Mechanics
A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike.

In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective generates new insights, particularly into the problems that we face in the stewardship of our planet. It explains how a process-based approach allows us to think differently and how it can be widely applied.

Part 1 introduces Systems Thinking and the systemic process modelling of learning and managing. This is an up-to-date and accessible introduction for anyone interested in the theory and practice of Systems Thinking.

Part 2 describes the effect of applying Systems Thinking in two key areas where problems of understanding exist: government and Quantum Mechanics. Whilst these two are far apart in the academic world, in each case surprising insights result from the systemic process approach.

Robin Asby started his career with a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University (1965), and a PhD from London University in 1968 in Mathematical Physics which formulated the basic modelling of a focused laser beam. Subsequently he moved to the University of Rochester, NY and began research in optics and electrodynamics. As a result of his experiences in the USA, when he returned to the United Kingdom in 1970, he became a political activist in the Labour Party. Moving to West Wales he spent 16 years training teachers and became familiar with the theory and practice of learning. In the early 1980s he came across the systems thinking of Stafford Beer, and introduced systems thinking into his teaching. In 1994 he co-founded a new business department in a higher education college with courses designed from a systemic standpoint. From 1998 to 2006 he worked as a consultant in conjunction with Hull University mentoring senior and middle managers in the Middle East, Far East, and UK as they developed their understanding and use of systemic management theories in their own organisations. In 2001 he became an Open University tutor, then a contributor to the development of systems thinking courses. He chaired the development of the Open University MSc ‘Systems Thinking in Practice’. He was a joint author of one of the courses in this degree.

Preface
Part 1: The Journey
1. Sketching the Route
2. Modelling
3. Understanding system, process and relationship
4. Holding Steady: Structure
5. Holding Steady: Control and Coherence
6. Changing with the Flow: Learning
7. Recognising the Importance of Perspective
Part 2: Applying the Approach
8. Modelling Governing
9. Modelling Quantum Systems
10. Looking Back
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Bridport
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Theorie / Studium
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
ISBN-10 1-913743-32-2 / 1913743322
ISBN-13 978-1-913743-32-1 / 9781913743321
Zustand Neuware
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