Systems Thinking Coping with 21st Century Problems 1st Edition by John Boardman, Brian Sauser ISBN 1040069517 9781040069516

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ISBN 10: 1040069517

ISBN 13: 9781040069516

Author:  John Boardman, Brian Sauser 

Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems 1st Edition: 

By examining the links and interactions between elements of a system, systems thinking is becoming increasingly relevant when dealing with global challenges, from terrorism to energy to healthcare. Addressing these seemingly intractable systems problems in our society, Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems focuses on the inherent opportunities and difficulties of a systems approach. Taking an engineering systems view toward systems thinking, the authors place a high value on the thinking process and the things applied to this process.

In the hopes of initiating critical thinking and encouraging a systems response to problems, the book provides pragmatic mechanisms to understand and address co-evolving systems problems and solutions. It uses several contemporary and complex societal issues, such as the Iraq war, the Google phenomenon, and the C2 Constellation, to illustrate the concepts, methods, and tools of a system as well as the meaning of togetherness in a system. The text also interweaves the meanings of complexity, paradox, and system to promote the improvement of difficult situations.

Featuring a holistic, nonlinear way of looking at systems, this book helps readers better organize and structure their thinking of systems in order to solve complex, real-world problems.

 

Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Perspectives

• 1.1 If You Leave Me Now
• 1.2 Areas of Perspective
  • 1.2.1 Or
  • 1.2.2 And
  • 1.2.3 Not
  • 1.2.4 Paradox
• 1.3 Perspectives on Google
• 1.4 Returning to Iraq
• 1.5 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 2: Concepts

• 2.1 Just a Thought
• 2.2 What’s the Big Idea?
  • 2.2.1 E Pluribus Unum
  • 2.2.2 The Sameness of Systems
• 2.3 The Conceptagon
  • 2.3.1 Boundary, Interior, Exterior
  • 2.3.2 Wholes, Parts, Relationships
  • 2.3.3 Inputs, Outputs, Transformations
  • 2.3.4 Structure, Function, Process
  • 2.3.5 Emergence, Hierarchy, Openness
  • 2.3.6 Variety, Parsimony, Harmony
  • 2.3.7 Command, Control, Communications
• 2.4 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 3: Engineering

• 3.1 Pressed into Action
• 3.2 The Way We Were
  • 3.2.1 Life Cycles
  • 3.2.2 Passing Through
  • 3.2.3 Eggs Is Eggs
  • 3.2.4 See What I Mean
  • 3.2.5 Spoiled for Choice
  • 3.2.6 Modeling and Simulation
  • 3.2.7 The Long Haul
• 3.3 Quite Another Story
• 3.4 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 4: Dynamics

• 4.1 Things Can Only Get Better
  • 4.1.1 A Systems Language
  • 4.1.2 Servers and Clients
  • 4.1.3 Archetypes
• 4.2 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 5: Soft

• 5.1 Breakfast @ Tiffs ‘n’ Ease
• 5.2 Softly, as I Lead You
  • 5.2.1 What Seems to Be the Problem?
  • 5.2.2 Getting to the Root of the Problem
  • 5.2.3 Ideally, This Is What We See
  • 5.2.4 It’s Good to Talk
  • 5.2.5 The Long Unwinding Road Map
• 5.3 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 6: Systemigrams

• 6.1 Into Great Issues
• 6.2 Evolution
• 6.3 From Prose to Picture
• 6.4 Going off the Rails
• 6.5 Normal Service Will Never Be Resumed
• 6.6 Postlude
• 6.7 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 7: Togetherness

• 7.1 Common Causes
• 7.2 An Intelligent Community?
  • 7.2.1 The Way It Is
  • 7.2.2 The Way It Must Be, OK?
  • 7.2.3 Making Sense of Togetherness: 1
• 7.3 The Madder of All Wars
  • 7.3.1 Future Capabilities
  • 7.3.2 A New Constellation
  • 7.3.3 Making Sense of Togetherness: 2
• 7.4 Principles for Togetherness
  • 7.4.1 Coexistence
  • 7.4.2 Cooperation
  • 7.4.3 Coeducation
• 7.5 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 8: Of

• 8.1 Social Networks
• 8.2 Order Forms
• 8.3 Technology Networks
• 8.4 Less Auto, More Mobile
• 8.5 The Price and Prize of Togetherness
• 8.6 The System of Systems Debate
• 8.7 Essential Characteristics
  • 8.7.1 Autonomy
  • 8.7.2 Belonging
  • 8.7.3 Connectivity
  • 8.7.4 Diversity
  • 8.7.5 Emergence
• 8.8 Back to Biology
• 8.9 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 9: Paradox

• 9.1 Make My Joy Complete
• 9.2 The World of Both
• 9.3 System Paradoxes
  • 9.3.1 Boundary
  • 9.3.2 Control
  • 9.3.3 Diversity
• 9.4 Bothersome Bovines
• 9.5 Time to Think
• Endnotes

Chapter 10: Complex

• 10.1 Life’s Rich Tapestry
• 10.2 Sides of Bacon
• 10.3 A Weakness Stronger Than Strength
• 10.4 Ready, Fire, Aim
• 10.5 Snowballs and Seesaws
• 10.6 Significant Others
• 10.7 Postlude
• 10.8 Time to Think

 

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