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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"soft systems"”.
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A Soft Systems approach to identifying and resolving organisational issues
This thesis is concerned with identifying and resolving organisational issues and details research that was undertaken in a manufacturing organisation, Rhomberg Brasier - a company which has been experiencing problems, which have developed in recent years.
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Soft systems approach to information problems at the structural level of health care
… in order to assess quality of health care. Systems theory and methodology have been applied to a broad spectrum of health care problems. Much of the analytical work has taken place at the process/operational level. Accordingly, the information/decision processes are usually supported at the …
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Flow manipulation in soft systems: biophysics and microfluidic discovery through scalable software design
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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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 model for the evaluation of location based services in South Africa based on soft systems methodology and the process-outcomes model
… framework was developed to combine the holistic, systems thinking apporach of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and the reductionist approach of metrics and the Process Outcomes model.
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Integrating project management and change management to reduce information and technology (it) project failure. A soft systems methodology (ssm) enquiry into a failing it project at UNHCR, South Africa.
… the researcher is also a participant, using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to investigate the problem situation. The study deals with a fuzzy, non-linear problem with unclear objectives and users with different perspectives to the situation hence the appropriateness of SSM to the study. This …
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A composite framework for the strategic alignment of information systems development
Information systems are corporate resources, therefore information systems development must be aligned with corporate strategy. This thesis proposes that effective strategic alignment of information systems requires information systems development, information systems planning and strategic …
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The use of systems thinking to deal with managing change in the context of the new South Africa
… situations. In the case study of the hard systems method, ISM, divergence of the stakeholder views was through the process intended to achieve convergence (consensus) in order to solve the problem situation. In the case of the soft systems method, SSM, divergence of views were synthesised …
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An investigation into full cost accounting in a higher education context
… theory and institutional theory, as<br/>well as Soft Systems Methodology tools. Existing Full Cost Accounting (‘FCA’)<br/>applications are critiqued using this framework and a utopian vision for a new<br/>application is constructed. The thesis then undertakes a new, explicitly …
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Knowing through narratives: the role of knowledge within the technological innovation process in the UK upstream oil and gas industry.
… which was developed by integrating elements of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) with narrative schema. A hypertextual system was also developed to determine how the explicit knowledge of the actors within the innovation process could be codified and transferred. The findings identify six …
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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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Defining the human resource processes required to support world class manufacturing
The aim of this project was to use soft systems methodology (SSM) in an industrial environment to tackle an unstructured problem. An agreement was made with a local company that the project would be of benefit both to them and the author. Whilst the aims of the project were initially defined (see …
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Managing asymmetric threats to national security - terrorist information operations
… context and a qualitative approach using soft systems methodology allows this to happen.
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The application of knowledge based systems to the abstraction of design and costing rules in bespoke pipe jointing systems
… and cost estimation of bespoke pipe jointing systems. An overview of the problem domain is provided and the findings from a literature review on knowledge based systems and applications in manufacturing were used to provide initial guidance to the research. The overall investigation and …
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Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city
… as the city for investigation. Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology is used for describing urban transport decision-making in Cape Town, and the approach is informed by seventeen in-depth interviews and forty-five questionnaires with decision-makers. The analysis yields insights which are …
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The application of performance indicators to quality assessment and audit in higher education
… quality review. It uses a new technique based on soft systems methodology and developed by researchers at London South Bank University. This technique, referred to as the Holon methodology, has been adapted from the domain of software quality assurance and can be used to help develop performance …
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Exploring Indonesia's Capital City Relocation As a Model for Multidimensional Conflict Resolution
… data, land-use/land-cover change assessment, and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). SSM tools, including rich picture analysis, CATWOE, Root Definition, a Conceptual Activity Model, and 3E indicators, were employed to compare normative governance assumptions with empirical conditions in East …
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