Bob Williams & Richard Hummelbrunner 
Systems Concepts in Action [EPUB ebook] 
A Practitioner’s Toolkit

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Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner’s Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems.

The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book’s Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book’s three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as ‘recipes, ‘ they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose. Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own strategic needs.

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About the author

Bob Williams is an organizational consultant and evaluator. He is coeditor of
Systems Concepts in Evaluation: An Expert Anthology. Richard Hummelbrunner is a consultant in the field of local and regional development. He is coauthor of
Instrumente systemischen Handelns: Eine Erkundungstour.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 336 ● ISBN 9780804776554 ● File size 3.2 MB ● Publisher Stanford University Press ● Published 2010 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5207957 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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