TY - BOOK ID - 8655084 TI - Systems thinking : intelligence in action PY - 2012 SN - 8847025648 8847056209 1283908751 8847025656 PB - Heidelberg [Germany] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Control system. KW - System theory. KW - System thinking. KW - System theory KW - Commerce KW - Management KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Business & Economics KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Local Commerce KW - Management Theory KW - Operations Research KW - System analysis. KW - Systems, Theory of KW - Systems science KW - Network theory KW - Systems analysis KW - Business. KW - Management science. KW - Science. KW - Pragmatism. KW - School management and organization. KW - School administration. KW - Social sciences. KW - Industrial psychology. KW - Business and Management. KW - Business and Management, general. KW - Methodology of the Social Sciences. KW - Administration, Organization and Leadership. KW - Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. KW - Science, general. KW - Business psychology KW - Industrial psychology KW - Psychotechnics KW - Industrial engineering KW - Personnel management KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Industrial psychologists KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Educational administration KW - Inspection of schools KW - School administration KW - School inspection KW - School operation policies KW - School organization KW - Schools KW - Educational planning KW - Idealism KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Positivism KW - Realism KW - Utilitarianism KW - Experience KW - Reality KW - Truth KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Quantitative business analysis KW - Problem solving KW - Operations research KW - Statistical decision KW - Trade KW - Economics KW - Industrial management KW - Inspection KW - Management and organization KW - Network analysis KW - Network science KW - Mathematical optimization KW - Science KW - Social sciences KW - Applied psychology. KW - Industrial and Organizational Psychology. KW - Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. KW - Methodology. KW - Applied psychology KW - Psychagogy KW - Psychology, Practical KW - Social psychotechnics KW - Psychology KW - Administration, Educational KW - Operation policies, School KW - Policies, School operation KW - Education KW - Organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8655084 AB - 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. ER -