The Systemic Approach of SSM: The Case of a Brazilian CompanySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 51-66 - 2002
Fernanda Menezes Ferrari, Carolina Bordignon Fares, Dante Pinheiro Martinelli
This paper aims to describe the application of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to the reality of a Brazilian enterprise. Systemic practices are ways of putting to use systemic thought in the real world, using the precepts of the systemic approach, which is very important for knowledge management and globalization. The systemic practice SSM is used in the resolution of ill-defined problems, which of...... hiện toàn bộ
How To Develop Visions: A Literature Review, and a Revised CHOICES Approach for an Uncertain WorldSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 495-515 - 2001
Frances O'Brien, Maureen Meadows
This paper reviews the visioning literature along five key dimensions: analysis of an organization's current situation, assessment of the external environment, identification of desired future vision, connection of the future to the present state, and testing the vision. It then describes one particular participative visioning methodology, which has largely been used in the public sector, the CHOI...... hiện toàn bộ
Action Research on Operations Research for Street ChildrenSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 37-49 - 2002
Marthi Harmse, Anne-Marié Pothas, Andries G. de Wet
This paper discusses an application of the CRASP model of Action Research (AR) on Operations Research (OR). The CRASP model portrays AR as a style of staff development that would lead to professionalism. It also advocates social responsibility, committed and informed action, and a critical approach. All of these concerns are inherent to the process of reflection and development characteristic of O...... hiện toàn bộ
Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive SkillSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 36 Số 5 - Trang 803-825 - 2023
Rajneesh Chowdhury
Abstract
Considering Systems Thinking (ST) as a cognitive skill can create greater acceptability of and openness to the discipline from practitioners and researchers outside operations research and management science. Rather than associating ST with frameworks and methodologies, ST as a cognitive skill can help popularize and democratize the discipline. This paper ...... hiện toàn bộ
Foucault's interpretive analytics of powerSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 383-405 - 1993
Jorge Dávila
In this paper an interpretation of Foucault's work on power is presented. One aim is to introduce this aspect of Foucault's work to the emerging debate on Critical Systems Thinking. Another goal is to clarify how Foucauldian discourse about power can be framed within the notion of “interpretive analytics” (a term that describes Foucault's work, conceived by Dreyfus and Rabinow). This metalogical t...... hiện toàn bộ