Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780981703275)

Currently the globally-connected world creates complexity for local decision makers. Environmental, social, organizational, and informational problems are pluralistic and messy. Systems approaches are required to reduce conflict and confusion. A key challenge is to apply holistic systems concepts to improve the lives of those served by systems of all kinds. This challenge motivated the theme for 2007's ANZSYS conference-'Systemic development: local solutions in a global environment'. This volume brings together nearly seventy papers covering the following topics: A globally-connected virtual world; Applications of creativity to systemic problem-solving; Conceptual modelling; Critical systems; Information systems; Managing systemic development; Organizational systems; Regional and environmental systems; Social systems; System dynamics; and Systems theory/systems thinking.

Author: James Sheffield
ISBN-10: 0981703275
ISBN-13: 9780981703275
Publisher: Isce Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2009
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.44lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.63d