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Book : Soft Systems Methodology in Action (1990)
Categories: General Systems • Soft Systems • Systems Thinking
Tags: action research • book • checkland • health • scholes • soft system • ssm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author(s): Checkland, Peter • Scholes, Jim
Published: 1990 • ISBN: 0471927686 • 346 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
Available from: Amazon (US) • Amazon (UK) • Amazon (DE)
Other Versions: 1999
Summary
Soft Systems Methodology was developed in the 1970s. It grew out of the failure of established methods of “systems engineering” (SE) when faced with messy complex problem situations. SE is concerned with creating systems to meet defined objectives, and it works well in those situations in which there is such general agreement on the objectives to be achieved that the problem can be thought of simply as the selection of efficacious and efficient means to achieve them.
SSM was developed expressly to cope with the more normal situation in which the people in a problem situation perceive and interpret the world in their own ways and make judgements about it using standards and values which may not be shared by others. Deciding how a company should make use of information technology, launching a new product, choosing a career, running a sports club, setting about improving care of the elderly in a District of the National Health Service are all problems of the latter type, for which SSM is appropriate.
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Book : Soft Systems Methodology in Action (1999)
Categories: Modelling • Problem-Solving • Soft Systems
Tags: action research • book • checkland • scholes • soft system • ssm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author(s): Checkland, Peter • Scholes, Jim
Published: 1999 • ISBN: 0471986054 • 418 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
Available from: Amazon (UK) • Amazon (US) • Amazon (DE)
Other Versions: 1990
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From the publisher:
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.
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