Book : Systems Thinking : Managing Chaos and Complexity (1999)

Categories: Business • Soft Systems • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • business • case study • emergeance • organisation • structure • systems thinking
Publisher: Butterworth - Heinemann
Author(s): Gharajedaghi, Jamshid
Published: 1999 • ISBN: 0750671637 • 328 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
Available from: Amazon (US) • Amazon (UK) • Amazon (DE)
Summary
From the publisher:
In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities.
With a practical orientation and yet a profound theoretical depth, the book offers an operational handle on the whole by introducing an elaborate scheme called iterative design. The iterative design explicitly recognizes that choice is at the heart of human development. Development is the capacity to choose; design is a vehicle for enhancement of choice and holistic thinking. ‘Designers’, in this book, seek to choose rather than predict the future. They try to understand rational, emotional, and cultural dimensions of choice and to produce a design that satisfies a multitude of functions. They learn how to use what they already know and also about how to learn what they need to know.
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