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:
Michael Rothschild • John D. Sterman • Virginia Anderson • -- Uknown -- -- Uknown -- • Ian McDermott • Andrew P. Sage • Donella H Meadows • James N. Martin • John Gall • Linda Booth Sweeney • Robert L. Flood • Allan Seabridge • James E. Armstrong • H. Kerzner • Kambiz Maani • Michael Balle • Charles S Wasson • Brian Wilson • Jamshid Gharajedaghi • Jeffrey O Grady • Jay W Forrester • Merill Ivan Skolnik • Michael J. Ryan • Ian F. Alexander • Alphonse Chapanis • Alan Waring • R Ian Faulconbridge • Maurice Yolles • Derek K. Hitchins • Jim Scholes • Benjamin S. Blanchard • Barry Richmond • Ian Somerville • Dennis Sherwood • George A. Hazelrigg • Dennis Meadows • Ian Moir • Art Kleiner • Peter M. Senge • Ken Jackson • Draper L. Kauffman • Pete Sawyer • Scott Jackson • Joseph O'Connor • John Morecroft • M.W. Maier • Daniel H. Kim • Stuart Arnold • Richard B. Ross • Steven Johnson
Chosen at random from all the resources listed:
- Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime…. by John Seddon
- Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information-Based Design by George A. Hazelrigg
- The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods by Dennis M. Buede
- Managerial Applications of System Dynamics by Edward B Roberts
- Writing Better Requirements by Richard Stevens, Ian F. Alexander