Monday, 1 October 2012

Soft Systems Thinking - a discussion agenda

The following discussion agenda is on Soft Systems Thinking (SST):

  1. Basic ideas underlying Soft Systems Thinking (SST)
    • there are multiple perceptionsof reality
    • A subjectivist approach
    • Weltanschauung: an individual's worldview
    • Vicker's notion of an "appreciative system".
  2. Representative works
    • Churchman's Social Systems Design
    • Mason and Mitroff's Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing (SAST) methodology
    • Ackoff's Social Systems Sciences
    • Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
  3. An assessment of SST and SSM
    • An underdeveloped form of critical modernism



Reference
Jackson, M.C. (1991) "Chapter 6: Soft Systems Thinking" Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences, Plenum

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