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Systems Thinking [electronic resource] : Intelligence in Action / by Piero Mella.

By: Mella, Piero [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Perspectives in Business Culture: 2Publisher: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XII, 303 p. 168 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9788847025653.Subject(s): Economics | Science (General) | Pragmatism | Social sciences -- Methodology | Economics/Management Science | Business/Management Science, general | Methodology of the Social Sciences | Administration, Organization and Leadership | Industrial and Organisational Psychology | Science, general | PragmatismDDC classification: 650 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The kingdom of circular processes. The logical foundations of Systems Thinking -- The arrow that constructs the world. The Causal Loop Diagrams technique -- Systems Thinking for the control of phenomena. How to construct a control system -- Systems Thinking applied to Problem Solving. System levers.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The core belief underlying this book is that the most useful and effective models to strengthen our intelligence are system ones, developed following the logic of Systems Thinking. Such models can explore complexity, dynamics, and change, and it is the author’s view that intelligence depends on the ability to construct models of this nature. The book is designed to allow the reader not only to acquire simple information on Systems Thinking but above all to gradually learn the logic and techniques that make this way of thinking an instrument for the improvement of intelligence.  In order to aid the learning and practice of the Systems Thinking discipline, the author has abandoned a rigid formal language for a more discursive style. He writes in the first person, with an ample number of citations and critical analyses, and without ever giving in to the temptation to use formal mathematics.
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The kingdom of circular processes. The logical foundations of Systems Thinking -- The arrow that constructs the world. The Causal Loop Diagrams technique -- Systems Thinking for the control of phenomena. How to construct a control system -- Systems Thinking applied to Problem Solving. System levers.

The core belief underlying this book is that the most useful and effective models to strengthen our intelligence are system ones, developed following the logic of Systems Thinking. Such models can explore complexity, dynamics, and change, and it is the author’s view that intelligence depends on the ability to construct models of this nature. The book is designed to allow the reader not only to acquire simple information on Systems Thinking but above all to gradually learn the logic and techniques that make this way of thinking an instrument for the improvement of intelligence.  In order to aid the learning and practice of the Systems Thinking discipline, the author has abandoned a rigid formal language for a more discursive style. He writes in the first person, with an ample number of citations and critical analyses, and without ever giving in to the temptation to use formal mathematics.

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