Systemic thinking
Subtitle: building maps for worlds of systems
By: John Boardman, John Boardman Associates, Worcester, UK, Brian Sauser, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Contributors: Sauser, Brian
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781118376461
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Systems engineering; System theory; Problem solving
Table of contents: title: Where we start from; title: Systemic introduction; title: Raining on my cascade; title: It's the whole, stupid!; title: The answer is, "pioneer acron pancakes"; title: Frameworks; title: The conceptagon; title: Boundaries, interiors, and exteriors; title: Parts, relationships, and wholes; title: Inputs, outputs, and transformations; title: Control, command, and communication; title: Structure, process, and function; title: Variety, parsimony, and harmony; title: Openness, hierarchy, and emergence; title: What ??; title: Why ??; title: When ??; title: How ??; title: Who ??; title: Where ??; title: To arrive where we started.