Dear Sukanta,
Thank you for your message.
Prof Bill Hutchinson wrote 'System Thinking and Associated Methodologies'
for exactly that purpose: those wanting an intelligent easy-to-read
overview of systems thinking.
I published it for him and its available as a pdf ebook (Au$5.49) at,
http://www.praxiseducation.com/catalog/ebook-systems-thinking-associated-met
hodologies-p-60.html
There are a lot of good books out there and a lot of good papers - all
interesting and useful for designers.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 4:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Leverage points in systems
Dear Terrance, Francois, Lataifeh,
If you kindly recommend some books for initial study of systems, it will be
helpful.
thanks,
Sukanta M
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From: Moh. Lataifeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: PHD-DESIGN <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23 pm
Subject: Re: Leverage points in systems
Dear Francois
Complementing Terrance input on this - the famous Meadpws's article- I think
it will be
very useful if you look at Russell Ackoff history and transformation from
dealing with parts
parts of systems (in Operations Research; which often destroyed the whole)
to system thinking
at large, Russ was reflecting on this and as an academic he wrote many
articles about educational
programs and what needs to be changed.
I don't want to spoil this for you, but the link below is for Russ Interview
with P.Day from BBC
3 years before we lost a great thinker.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0053d49/Global_Business_Russell_Ackoff
/
Regards
Mohammad Lataifeh
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Terry
>
> Thanks a lot for the lead to Donnela Meadows's article, "Leverage Points:
> Place to Intervene in a System". A good introduction to Systems approach.
> And I strongly support your push for designers to adopt this whole,
complex
> systems view, instead of the current reductive, narrower
> "local-suboptimisation" approach.
>
> Perhaps ALL University design teaching curricula should include some
> initiation course to 'Complex Systems' understanding, as one of my
> professors tried a couple of years ago...
>
> Warm Regards
>
> Francois
> Montreal
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Francois,
> >
> > Interventions aimed at changing a complex system can be more or less
> > effective depending on the type of intervention, the aim of the
> > intervention
> > and the part of the system in which the intervention is applied.
> >
> > Lever points in a complex system are points in which interventions work
> > more
> > effectively. The interesting thing is that when non-systems approaches
> > (think classic design methods and design thinking) are applied to
complex
> > systems, the design decisions are almost always faulty and commonly lead
> to
> > the opposite outcomes!
> >
> > See for example, http://www.sustainer.org/pubs/Leverage_Points.pdf
> >
> > This idea usually sits with 'counterintuitive' outcomes and
> > 'local-suboptimisation'
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Terry
> >
> >
>
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Moh. Lataifeh
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