Soft Systems Methodology in Action / Edition 1

by Peter Checkland, Jim Scholes

Overview

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, successful in technical problems, could be used by managers to cope with the unfolding complexities of everyday life.  His findings were revealed in Systems Thinking, Systems Practice.  In this paperback reissue of his second classic of systems literature, again featuring the excerpted new section, Checkland develops his ideas to show how the principles have been extended by use in industry.  Case studies are used to show how SSM can be applied and what lessons can be learned from its application in different areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471986058
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/28/1999
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Peter Checkland is the recipient of the 'Most Distinguished and Outstanding Contributor' Award of the British Computer Society Methodologies Group, 1994 Recipient of the Gold Medal of the UK Systems Society for 'Outstanding Contribution to Systems Thinking' and 1997 Recipient of a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Now retired from full time university work, Peter Checkland continues his research and writing.

Table of Contents

The Emergence of Soft Systems Thinking.

Soft Systems Methodology-the Whole.

Soft Systems Methodology-the Parts.

Soft Systems Methodology-the Whole Revisited.

Soft Systems Methodology-the Context.

Conclusion.

Appendix.

Bibliography.

Indexes.