Systems Thinkers by Magnus Ramage & Karen Shipp

Systems Thinkers by Magnus Ramage & Karen Shipp

Author:Magnus Ramage & Karen Shipp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447174752
Publisher: Springer London


Reading from Checkland’s work

Checkland, P. B. and Poulter, J. Learning for Action: a short definitive account of soft systems methodology and its use for practitioners, teachers and students, Copyright © John Wiley 2006. Reproduced with permission of John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Extract from pages xv–xix.

We all live in the midst of a complex interacting flux of changing events and ideas which unrolls through time. We call it ‘everyday life’, both personal and professional. Within that flux we frequently see situations which cause us to think: ‘Something needs to be done about this, it needs to be improved.’ Think of these as ‘problematic situations’, avoiding the word ‘problem’ since this implies ‘solution’, which eliminates the problem for ever. Real life is more complex than that!



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