Systemic thinking : building maps for worlds of systems

• Main Authors: Boardman, John, 1946- (Author), Sauser, Brian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2013
• Subjects: systémové myšlení; řešení problémů; systémová analýza; teorie systémů; systémové inženýrství; system thinking; problem solving; system analysis; system theory; systems engineering; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 9781118376461
• Physical Description: xviii, 243 s. : il. ; 21 cm

Table of Contents:

• Where we start from
• Systemic introduction
• Raining on my cascade
• It's the whole, stupid!
• The answer is, "pioneer acron pancakes"
• Frameworks
• The conceptagon
• Boundaries, interiors, and exteriors
• Parts, relationships, and wholes
• Inputs, outputs, and transformations
• Control, command, and communication
• Structure, process, and function
• Variety, parsimony, and harmony
• Openness, hierarchy, and emergence
• What ??
• Why ??
• When ??
• How ??
• Who ??
• Where ??
• To arrive where we started