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Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
- P. Checkland
- Engineering
- 1981
Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework… Expand
Soft Systems Methodology in Action
- P. Checkland, J. Scholes
- Engineering
- 1990
The Emergence of Soft Systems Thinking. Soft Systems Methodology--the Whole. Soft Systems Methodology--the Parts. Soft Systems Methodology--the Whole Revisited. Soft Systems Methodology--the Context.… Expand
Soft Systems Methodology: A Thirty Year Retrospective a
- P. Checkland
- Sociology
- 1 November 2000
Although the history of thought reveals a number of holistic thinkers — Aristotle, Marx, Husserl among them— it was only in the 1950s that any version of holistic thinking became institutionalized.… Expand
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective
- P. Checkland
- Computer Science
- 16 September 1999
Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students
- P. Checkland, J. Poulter
- Engineering
- 2 April 2007
Preamble A TEN-MINUTE ACCOUNT OF SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY FOR VERY BUSY PEOPLE. Preface. INTRODUCTION. PART 1 THE NATURE OF SSM. Chapter 1 A SKELETON ACCOUNT OF SSM AS A WHOLE. What is SSM? What is… Expand
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Action Research: Its Nature and Validity
- P. Checkland, S. Holwell
- Psychology
- 1 February 1998
The process of knowledge acquisition which has the strongest truth claim is the research process of natural science, based on testing hypotheses to destruction. But the application of this process to… Expand
Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospective
- P. Checkland
- Engineering
- 1999
What is now known as Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been continuously developed and honed in a programme of action research which is now in its thirtieth year at Lancaster University. Development… Expand
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From Optimizing to Learning: A Development of Systems Thinking for the 1990s
- P. Checkland
- Computer Science, Engineering
- 1 September 1985
TLDR
Information, Systems, And Information Systems
- P. Checkland, S. Holwell
- Computer Science
- 27 November 1997
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