Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems.

The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition,...

Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the...

Das Zusammenwachsen der Welt und der rasche Wandel fordern uns alle heraus, als Einzelne, aber auch als Organisationen, Unternehmen und menschliche Gemeinschaften. Was systemisches Handeln bei diesen schwierigen Anpassungsprozessen leisten kann, zeigt dieses Buch anhand einer inspirierenden Einfuhrung in die Welt des systemischen Denkens und einer Auswahl praktischer Instrumente. Die Themen sind: Grossgruppenarbeit, Umfeldanalyse, Strategieentwicklung, Steuerung, Kompetenzentwicklung, Evaluation und viele mehr. Instrumente systemischen Handelns ist Handbuch, Lese- und Lernbuch zugleich. Es...