Systems-Thinkers’ Resources
Background
Many, many moons ago there was a books database. This contained a lot of information on books that might interest systems-thinkers - including an overview and document structure. It was useful as there wasn’t (and often still isn’t today) and sensible means of grouping content for systems folks. It was, however bespoke code and a bit of a pain to maintain. Eventually it all became too hard and got retired from public view.
It hadn’t gone away and there is still a need to try and find and present things of interest.
In the meantime technology and the Internet have moved on and the possibility of making it interactive in ways that didn’t then exist seems sensible.
What Types of Resource Are Listed?
Sticking to books seems to be too restrictive and the types of resource being collected are:
- book
- course
- software/ application (tool)
- website
How Can I Help?
- suggest new websites, books, courses or tools that would be of interest to systems-thinkers
- let us know what you thought to a book, course etc. - provide a review of a resource and help others judge
- help fill in some of the missing gaps in information on the resources
50 Authors
50 authors randomly chosen from all the resources listed are:
Peter B. Checkland • Steven Johnson • Bryan J. Smith • Alphonse Chapanis • Richard B. Ross • Barry Richmond • Charlotte Roberts • H. Kerzner • R Ian Faulconbridge • Scott Jackson • Michael Rothschild • Donella H Meadows • Richard Stevens • Virginia Anderson • Ian Somerville • Jeffrey O Grady • Peter Brook • Robert Cavana • Brian Wilson • Jay W Forrester • E.R. Rechtin • Joseph O'Connor • Andrew P. Sage • Jamshid Gharajedaghi • Michael Balle • Robert L. Flood • James E. Armstrong • John Morecroft • Derek K. Hitchins • George A. Hazelrigg • William B. Rouse • Linda Booth Sweeney • Alan Waring • Dennis Meadows • Ian McDermott • Maurice Yolles • Draper L. Kauffman • Peter M. Senge • Benjamin S. Blanchard • Jim Scholes • Allan Seabridge • John Seddon • Daniel H. Kim • John D. Sterman • John Gall • Edward B Roberts • Pete Sawyer • Michael J. Ryan • -- Uknown -- -- Uknown -- • James N. Martin
Chosen at random from all the resources listed:
- Management Systems: A Viable Approach by Maurice Yolles
- Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager’s Guide to Applying Systems by Dennis Sherwood
- Introduction to Systems Engineering by Andrew P. Sage, James E. Armstrong
- System Engineering Management by Benjamin S. Blanchard
- Systems Thinking : Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi