Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide

Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell (Retired) (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2020 | 2nd ed. 2020
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4471-7471-4 (ISBN)

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The five approaches outlined in this book offers the systems thinking practitioner a range of interchangeable tools for pro-actively making systemic improvements amidst complex situations of change and uncertainty. Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tools and know-how for understanding such failure, and the making of systemic improvement. In our fragile Anthropocene world where ‘systems change’ is often invoked as the rallying call for purposeful alternative action, this book provides a toolkit to help constructively make systems that can change situations for the better.

Systems Approaches offers an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand systems thinking and to enact systems thinking in practice. The book helps practitioners from all professions to better understand inter-relationships, engage with multiple perspectives, and reflect on boundary judgements that can inhibit or enhance improved purposeful change. After an editorial introduction to these systems thinking in practice capabilities, successive chapters illustrate five systems approaches, each chosen for having a rigorous though adaptable framework, and a robust long pedigree of application in complex situations. Each chapter illustrates what the approach is about, followed by invaluable tips and insights from experience regarding how the tools might be practiced. Amongst updates from originating authors for this 2nd edition, each approach has an accompanying postscript on some developments since the 1st edition.

Sue Holwell joined Cranfield University in 1998 and taught on the MSc in the Design of Information Systems and MBA at the Royal Military College of Science. In April 2002 she joined the Systems Department at the Open University. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Centre for Complexity and Change, Technology Faculty, Open University. Dr Martin Reynolds joined OU in 2000. He previously worked with Gerald Midgley at Hull University co-authoring Operational Research and Environmental Management with support from the Operational Research Society. His interest in critical systems came through PhD work on participatory natural resource-use appraisal in Botswana, based at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).

Introducing Systems Approaches.- System Dynamics.- The Viable System Model,- Strategic Options Development and Analysis.- Soft Systems Methodology.- Critical Systems Heuristics: The Idea and Practice of Boundary Critique.- Epilogue: Systems Approaches and Systems Practice.- Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	115 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 324 p. 115 illus.
Verlagsort	England
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Change Management • Critical Systems Heuristics • Multiple Perspectives • Soft Systems Methodology • System Dynamics • Systems Approach • Systems Practice • Systems Tools • Viable System Model
ISBN-10	1-4471-7471-2 / 1447174712
ISBN-13	978-1-4471-7471-4 / 9781447174714
Zustand	Neuware