Systemic Thinking : Building Maps for Worlds of Systems.
Title:
Systemic Thinking : Building Maps for Worlds of Systems.
Author:
Sauser, Brian.
ISBN:
9781118720974
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Systemigrams -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Journey I: Systemic Failure -- Chapter 1: Where We Start From -- Chapter 2: Systemic Introduction -- Chapter 3: Raining on My Cascade -- Chapter 4: It's the Whole, Stupid! -- Chapter 5: The Answer Is . . . Pioneer Acorn Pancakes? -- Journey II: Systemic Ideas: The Conceptagon -- Chapter 6: Frameworks -- Chapter 7: The Conceptagon -- Chapter 8: Boundaries, Interiors, and Exteriors -- Chapter 9: Parts, Relationships, and Wholes -- Anyone Who Had a Heart -- Hanging on the Telephone -- What the Dickens! -- Don't Get Rid of All the Phone Booths! -- Chapter 10: Inputs, Outputs, and Transformations -- Chapter 11: Control, Command, and Communication -- Control -- Command -- Communication -- Ants -- Arabs -- The Future Is Not What It Used to Be -- Chapter 12: Structure, Process, and Function -- Flash (of Brilliance) -- Don't Stop Me Now! -- Chapter 13: Variety, Parsimony, and Harmony -- Under Pressure -- Let Your Words Be Few -- Ebony and Ivory -- Chapter 14: Openness, Hierarchy, and Emergence -- Now I'm Here -- Come Together -- I'm Looking Through You -- Journey III: Systemic Maps: Systemigrams -- Chapter 15: What . . . ? -- What Is a Systemigram? -- What Is a System? -- What Is a System Description? -- What Is a System of Interest? -- What Is This Systemigram? -- Chapter 16: Why . . . ? -- Why Do Systemigrams Exist? -- Why Are Some Problems Complex? -- Why Does This Systemigram Exist? -- Why Is This Systemigram Useful? -- Chapter 17: When . . . ? -- When Is the Time (for Anything)? -- When Should You Create a Systemigram? -- Lost in Space -- No Way to Run a Railway -- To Bid or Not to Bid? -- When Was It Time to Use This Systemigram? -- Dates and Dots -- Transformation -- Integrate Issues -- Chapter 18: How . . . ?.
How Do You Create a Systemigram? -- Rules and Principles -- Mutate and Evolve -- How Do You Create a SystemiShow? -- Like a Box of Chocolates? -- Genesis of Systemic Media -- Hints and Tips -- Showtime: The IED Problem: A Systemigram Storyboard -- Diversionary Tactic -- Chapter 19: Who . . . ? -- Yours -- Mine -- Ours -- Lights, Camera, Action: A Film in Resilience -- Preamble -- Development (Yours, Then Mine) -- Preproduction (Mine, Then Yours) -- Production (Yours and Mine) -- Postproduction (Ours) -- Distribution and Exhibition (Ours and Theirs) -- Chapter 20: Where . . . ? -- There's a Place for Us -- The Problems with Problems -- Where Wolf? -- I Solution -- Way to Go -- A Scenario -- The Problems with Problems: DHS Small Vessel Security Strategy -- Foundations of the SVSS -- SVSS Environment -- SVSS Vision -- Where Is the Problem? -- Chapter 21: To Arrive Where We Started -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
JOHN BOARDMAN is Principal of John Boardman Associates, a consultancy and training provider specializing in applied systemic thinking. He was formerly Distinguished Service Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he is now Adjunct Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises. BRIAN SAUSER is an Associate Professor of Complex Logistics Systems at the University of North Texas. He previously managed an applied research and development laboratory in life sciences and engineering at the NASA Johnson Space Center and was the Program Director of the New Jersey NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training before joining Stevens Institute of Technology. He was also a Project Specialist with ASRC Aerospace.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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