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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Soft systems thinking"”.
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An Analysis of the Relationship between Contemporary Western Military Theory, Systems Thinking, and their Key Schools-of-Thought
Since the 1990s, systems concepts have been used to enhance military theory. Such fusion assumes a strong relationship between systems thinking and military theory. This assumption underpins military concepts such as Effects-Based Operations, which was influential in planning the Afghanistan and …
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An Analysis of the Relationship between Contemporary Western Military Theory, Systems Thinking, and their Key Schools-of-Thought
Since the 1990s, systems concepts have been used to enhance military theory. Such fusion assumes a strong relationship between systems thinking and military theory. This assumption underpins military concepts such as Effects-Based Operations, which was influential in planning the Afghanistan and …
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Innovation of a design method (MoIST) that incorporates non-traditional 'soft' systems science into traditional 'hard' information systems design
… research explores ways of making the information systems development process more effective. The thesis documents an original design method. This is the method of incorporating Systems thinking into Information Systems Design (MoIST). The thesis demonstrates that MoIST improves information systems …
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A Systems Approach to Reengineering Business Processes Towards Concurrent Engineering Principles
This thesis presents a description of a soft system methodology for business process improvement. The research is based on earlier work by Cole [ 1997|. It extends and adds rigour to that w'ork and presents original knowledge which is shown to be particularly useful in creating hierarchies of …
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A critical process for the evaluation of methodology
This thesis uses Critical Systems Thinking (CST) as a basic philosophy to explore how to create a critical process for evaluating methodology. CST is different from the other two mainstreams of systems thinking (Hard Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Thinking) in terms of its emphasis on …
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A framework for the explicit use of specific systems thinking methodologies in data-driven decision support system development
Data-driven decision support systems, such as data warehouses, are extremely costly to develop. Forty one per cent of data warehouse development practitioners have experienced project failures. These projects were either completed after exceeding budget and time limits, or not at all. Some …