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This book is about helping managers and decision makers to choose and use the most appropriate problem solving approaches available for managing the complexity and diversity of the difficulties that they face. By describing and analysing a range of different approaches, it investigates the strengths and weaknesses of each and provides its own approach for the complementary and integrated use of different system methodologies.

Table of Contents
The Nature of Systems Thinking.

A System of Systems Methodologies.

The Logic and Process of Total Systems Intervention (TSI).

System Dynamics (SD).

Viable System Diagnosis (VSD).

Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST).

Interactive Planning (IP).

Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).

Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH).

Total Systems Intervention (TSI) Revisited.

Index.

Creative Problem Solving

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 22 July 1991
      ISBN-13 9780471930525
      978-0471930525
      ISBN-10 0471930520
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      Business mathematics and systems

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is about helping managers and decision makers to choose and use the most appropriate problem solving approaches available for managing the complexity and diversity of the difficulties that they face. By describing and analysing a range of different approaches, it investigates the strengths and weaknesses of each and provides its own approach for the complementary and integrated use of different system methodologies.

      Table of Contents
      The Nature of Systems Thinking.

      A System of Systems Methodologies.

      The Logic and Process of Total Systems Intervention (TSI).

      System Dynamics (SD).

      Viable System Diagnosis (VSD).

      Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST).

      Interactive Planning (IP).

      Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).

      Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH).

      Total Systems Intervention (TSI) Revisited.

      Index.

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