TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Checkland
AU  - Jim Scholes
TI  - Soft Systems Methodology in Action
SN  - 9780471986058
U1  - 003 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - England
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Global Business Dynamics (BIN2043-N)
KW  - Business
KW  - System theory
KW  - System analysis
N2  - Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, successful in technical problems, could be used by managers to cope with the unfolding complexities of everyday life.  His findings were revealed in Systems Thinking, Systems Practice .  In this paperback reissue of his second classic of systems literature, again featuring the excerpted new section, Checkland develops his ideas to show how the principles have been extended by use in industry.  Case studies are used to show how SSM can be applied and what lessons can be learned from its application in different areas
ER  -