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	  <title>Book - The Systems Bible: The Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Systems Large and Small (3rd Edition)  (2003)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/gall_john" title="Click to view all resources connected to John Gall">John Gall</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2003  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/general_systemantics_press">General Systemantics Press</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 0961825170 &#8226; 316 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
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<p>From the publisher</p>
<blockquote><p>GENERAL SYSTEMANTICS™ PRESS is proud to announce the revised and much enlarged THIRD edition of SYSTEMANTICS™, THE UNDERGROUND TEXT OF SYSTEMS LORE. Sixteen years in preparation, this THIRD Edition includes a new Preface, three new chapters, new AXIOMS, THEOREMS AND RULES OF THUMB, and many new Horrible Examples, for a total of 40 chapters covering the entire field from the PRIMAL SCENARIO to the FAIL-SAFE THEOREM and including the celebrated definition of GARBAGE that is fundamental to any real understanding of SYSTEMANTICS™.</p>

<p>The FIRST EDITION of SYSTEMANTICS™ was &#8220;highly recommended&#8221; by the American Association for the Advancement of Science&#8217;s Science Books and Films and has since been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, and Japanese.</p>

<p>The SECOND EDITION has been favorably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalogue (1986) by Kevin Kelly: <q>The author is having fun with a serious subject . . . insights come in the form of marvelously succinct rules of thumb, in the spirit of Murphy&#8217;s Law and the Peter Principle.</q> And Computer Book Review remarks, <q>From &#8216;Function-and-Failure&#8217; to &#8216;Management and Other Myths&#8217;, here&#8217;s a collection of witty observations… grown into mature rules of thumb.</q></p>
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	  <title>Book - System Analysis, Design, and Development: Concepts, Principles, and Practices  (2006)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[<img src="http://systems-thinkers.org/images/se_resources/0471393339.jpg" alt="Book - System Analysis, Design, and Development: Concepts, Principles, and Practices  (2006)  " /><br /><br />
by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/wasson_charles_s" title="Click to view all resources connected to Charles S Wasson">Charles S Wasson</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2006  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/john_wiley_sons">John Wiley &amp; Sons</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 0471393339 &#8226; 832 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Hardback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From the publisher:</p>
<blockquote><p>Written in a practical, easy to understand style, this text provides a step-by-step guide to System Analysis and Engineering by introducing concepts, principles, and practices via a progression of topical, lesson oriented chapters.</p>
<p>Each chapter focuses on specific aspects of system analysis, design, and development, and includes definitions of key terms, examples, author&#8217;s notes, key principles, and challenging exercises that teach readers to apply their knowledge to real world systems.</p>
<p>Concepts and methodologies presented can be applied by organizations in business sectors such as transportation, construction, medical, financial, education, aerospace and defense, utilities, government, and others, regardless of size.</p>
<p>An excellent undergraduate or graduate-level textbook in systems analysis and engineering, this book is written for both new and experienced professionals who acquire, design, develop, deploy, operate, or support systems, products, or services.</p>
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	  <dc:date>2010-10-26T09:53+00:00</dc:date>
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	  <title>Course - T553_1 Systems Modelling  (1999)  </title>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/unknown" title="Click to view all resources connected to -- Uknown -- -- Uknown --">-- Uknown -- -- Uknown --</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  1999  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/the_open_university">The Open University</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong>  &#8226; 0 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Online (Internet)<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>Provided by The Open University under their OpenLearn website as a free study units with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others.</p>
<p>Time: 4 hours</p>
<p>Level: Introductory</p>

<p>From the Open University:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maps and plans, architects and engineers, drawings, graphs and tables: all are models we use in everyday life. This unit will introduce you to the modelling process enabling you to recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding of a situation; identifying problems or formulating opportunities and supporting decision making.</p>
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<blockquote><h3>Learning Outcomes</h3>
<p>After working through these materials you should be able to:</p>
<ul><li>describe and use a general classification of models;</li>
<li>outline and discuss the process of systems modelling, where models are used as part of a systemic approach to a range of different situations;</li>
<li>recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding of a situation; identifying problems or formulating opportunities; supporting decision making.</li></ul></blockquote>
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	  <title>Course - T552_1 Systems Diagramming - OpenLearn  (2002)  </title>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/unknown" title="Click to view all resources connected to -- Uknown -- -- Uknown --">-- Uknown -- -- Uknown --</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2002  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/the_open_university">The Open University</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong>  &#8226; 0 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Online (Internet)<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>Provided by The Open University under their OpenLearn website as a free study units with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others</p><p>.</p>

<p>Time: 12 hours</p>
<p>Level: Introductory</p>

<p>From the Open University:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pictures speak louder than words. But how can you use diagrams to help you? This unit looks at how diagrams can be used to represent information and ideas about complex situations. You will learn how to read, draw and present diagrams to help illustrate how ideas or processes are connected.</p>
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<blockquote><p>After reading this unit you should be able to:</p>
<ul><li>appreciate diagrams as a powerful aid to thinking and acting;</li>
<li>distinguish between systems diagrams and diagrams helpful in systems work;</li>
<li>demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve your understanding of a situation;</li>
<li>select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation you are investigating and the purposes/preferences of you as the diagrammer.</li></ul></blockquote>
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	  <title>Book - Systems Thinking and Modelling: Understanding Change and Complexity  (2007)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/maani" title="Click to view all resources connected to Kambiz Maani">Kambiz Maani</a>, <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/cavana" title="Click to view all resources connected to Robert Cavana">Robert Cavana</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2007  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/pearson_higher_education">Pearson Higher Education</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 1877371033 &#8226; 288 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<blockquote><p>Systems Thinking, System Dynamics offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of systems thinking and dynamic modelling and its applications. The book provides a self-contained and unique blend of qualitative and quantitative tools, step-by-step methodology, numerous examples and mini-cases, as well as extensive real-life case studies. The content mix and presentation style make the otherwise technical tools of systems thinking and system dynamics accessible to a wide range of people.</p>

<p>This book is intended as a text for students in diverse disciplines including business and management, as well as the social, environmental, health and applied sciences. It also has particular relevance for professionals from all backgrounds interested in understanding the dynamic behaviour of complex systems, change management, complex decision making, group problem solving and organisational learning.</p>

<p>Systems thinking and system dynamics provide a scientific paradigm, a set of tools and computer technology which can help explain the forces and dynamics that underlie change and complexity in business, political, social, economic and environmental systems.</p>

<p>Using systems thinking and system dynamics makes it possible to:</p>

<ul><li>examine and foresee the consequences of policy and strategic decisions</li>
<li>implement fundamental solutions to chronic problems</li>
<li>avoid mistakenly interpreting symptoms as causes</li>
<li>test assumptions, hypotheses and scenarios</li>
<li>boost staff morale and improve productivity</li>
<li>improve the stability and performance of supply chains</li>
<li>find long-term sustainable solutions and avoid ‘fire-fighting’ behaviour.</li></ul>
<p><q>The world grows more and more interconnected every day, and yet our institutions of commerce, education, health care, and government, by and large, remain firmly wedded to the reductionistic worldview of the Industrial Age. While more and more leaders in institutions of all sorts realise the importance of systems thinking, few have progressed far in practical application, often daunted by what seems like a steep technical learning curve. This is unfortunate, because it leads to either complete neglect or relegating the tools to technical experts, and fails the urgent need for re-thinking critical issues that must engage us all.</q></p>
<p><q>If you believe as I do that enhanced systems intelligence is the mandate for living together in our shrinking world, you will be delighted by Kambiz Maani’s and Bob Cavana’s new book, which takes a big step toward clarifying the underlying philosophy and demystifying the system dynamics method that has long been the core of our work. </q></p>

<p>Peter M. Senge, Society for Organizational Learning, MIT -Boston</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>New to this Edition</strong></p>
<p>The slight change in the title from Systems Thinking and Modelling – Understanding Change and Complexity to Systems Thinking, System Dynamics – Managing Change and Complexity reflects two things: </p>
<ul><li>(a) the field ‘System Dynamics’ has been brought directly into the title to reflect the flow in ideas and concepts from systems thinking to system dynamics; and </li>
<li>(b) the shift from understanding to managing conveys a shift of emphasis towards practice and a broader vision of not only understanding the dynamics of change and complexity, but also to provide tools and support to manage change and complexity. </li></ul>
<p>Two new cases studies related to complex global and business issues and challenges, such as the bird flu pandemics and sustainable fishing practices, have been included.</p>
<p>An update and modernising of one case based on the dynamics of a hypothetical beer distribution system to reflect the rapidly growing field of supply chain management and modelling.
Further background on the history and development of systems thinking and system dynamics.</p>
<p>Enhancements to the problem structuring phase of the five-phase systems thinking and modelling methodology based on system dynamics outlined in the book.</p>
<p>Additional technical material to assist readers to better understand the dynamic modelling process.</p>
<p>Further improvements to applications of systems thinking in organisations and an additional learning laboratory, the Brand Management Microworld, in Chapter 6, to aid in managerial learning of systemic and dynamic behaviour of complex systems undergoing change in uncertain environments.</p>
<p><strong>Supplements</strong></p><p>This revised edition includes additional material on theory as well as several new cases.&nbsp; The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes the simulation models presented in the book as well as the installation package for a save-disabled version of the iThink software and the installation program for Vensim PLE (Personal Learning Edition).</p>
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	  <title>Course - Systems Engineering MEng/BEng  (2010)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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<category>Electronics</category>
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<category>Software</category>
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<strong>Published:</strong>  2010  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/loughborough_university">Loughborough University</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong>  &#8226; 0 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Unknown<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From Loughborough University:</p>
<blockquote><p>Systems Engineering provides a structured comprehensive approach to solving today’s complex technical challenges, particularly those related to the design and development of highly sophisticated products, such as aircraft, ships, telecommunications networks, or information management systems.</p>

<p>It is the systems engineer’s job to integrate people, processes, tools and technologies effectively and successfully in any system to produce a required capability and performance. Systems Engineering is about the bigger picture: it provides insight into the context in which design objectives are set and enables appropriate integrated solutions to be developed and implemented as operational products or services. No matter what the system of interest, a systems engineer looks at the whole product lifecycle and all the stakeholders’ needs as well as aiming to satisfy the customer.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The course contains material drawn from the following academic departments, together with contributions from industrial organisations:</p>

<ul><li>Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering</li>
<li>Business School</li>
<li>Computer Science</li>
<li>Electronic and Electrical Engineering</li>
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<li>Civil and Building Engineering</li></ul></blockquote>
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	  <dc:date>2010-09-24T15:21+00:00</dc:date>
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	  <title>Course - Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc/PgDip  (2010)  </title>
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<strong>Published:</strong>  2010  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/cranfield_university">Cranfield University</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong>  &#8226; 0 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Unknown<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From Cranfield University:</p>
<blockquote><p>The aim of this course is to provide education and training in selected electronic military systems. The course is intended for officers of the armed forces and for scientists and technical officers in government defence establishments and the defence industry. It is particularly suitable for those who, in their subsequent careers, will be involved with the specification, analysis, development, technical management or operation of military radar, electro-optics, communications, sonar or information systems, where the emphasis is on an electronic warfare environment. The main object of the course is to bring together the wide variety of disciplines involved and present them in an integrated manner, emphasising the system aspects.</p>

<p>Suitably qualified candidates who achieve an appropriate standard on the course are awarded either the MSc Degree or the Cranfield University Postgraduate Diploma in Military Electronic Systems Engineering as appropriate. The formal aims of the PGDip and MSc are as follows:</p>

<ul><li>The aim of the Postgraduate Diploma course is to provide students with a detailed knowledge and understanding of military electronic warfare systems such that they are fully equipped for roles in defence intelligence and acquisition, involving the specification and analysis of such systems, working individually or as part of a team.</li>
<li>In addition, the MSc course enables the student to carry out an in-depth investigation into an area of electronic warfare to further enhance their analytical capability.</li></ul></blockquote>
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	  <title>Course - Systems Engineering for Defence Capability MSc/PgDip/PgCert  (2010)  </title>
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<strong>Published:</strong>  2010  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/cranfield_university">Cranfield University</a><br />
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<h3>Overview</h3>
<blockquote><p>Suitable for those involved in systems decisions throughout the acquisition community, ie MOD, DE&amp;S, QinetiQ and Industry (prime contractors and the wider supply chain).</p>

<p>Takes you on to impressive career prospects across a range of roles commensurate with your experience. This includes membership of multidisciplinary teams in acquisition, supply or research organisations. This could be in both general systems engineering roles or as a focal point for specific skills such as availability, reliability and maintenance (ARM), human factors, requirements, architecture test and evaluation, etc. It is also applicable to key roles in MOD acquisition such as IPT leader, capability manager and requirements manager.</p>

<p>You will be taught by Cranfield University academic staff at the Defence Academy - College of Management and Technology who understand the challenges of translating theory into practice. Visiting lecturers include experts from industry, research establishments and Government departments, particularly the MOD.</p>
<h3>Course Description</h3>
<p>For the Systems Engineering for Defence Capability course, we offer two variants of the MSc, PgDip and PgCert programmes of study:</p>
<ul><li>full-time</li>
<li>flexible part-time</li>.</ul>
<p>Both variants are delivered by a combination of electronic learning and classroom-based lectures, workshops and exercises.</p>
<p>The taught phase provides comprehensive coverage of modern systems engineering principles, practices, methods and tools, and places great emphasis on their practical application.</p>
<p>In order to develop skills in understanding and tackling complex problems in the real world, we make extensive use of case studies and student investigation.</p>
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	  <title>Course - MSc Business and Systems Thinking (incorporating PG Cert/PG Dip)  (2010)  </title>
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<strong>Published:</strong>  2010  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/university_of_derby">University of Derby</a><br />
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<blockquote><p>You will develop a wide and in-depth knowledge across key managerial disciplines on the MSc Business and Systems Thinking programme.</p>

<p>You will practice and expand key subject area skills, unlocking business potential and management capabilities within a diverse cultural context. You will develop appropriate business strategies, policies, procedures and change programmes within a dynamic business context so you will make an immediate impact in the business sector.</p>

<p>You will also understand the impact of professional and ethical standards and principles on business practice, and enhance your own personal business skills. At the same time you will focus on systems thinking - an innovative approach to help organisations work efficiently and effectively- and start to understand the complex world of systems.</p>

<p>The MSc starts with the Postgraduate Certificate stage which is also shared across other programmes so that you build a strong support network of global colleagues to learn with. You will concentrate on the broad contextual aspects of management, developing your knowledge and understanding. The main themes here are developing people, organisational dynamics and behaviours, finance and information, marketing and operations, as well personal development skills.</p>

<p>At the Postgraduate Diploma stage the focus is on subject specific knowledge and practical skills.&nbsp; It goes beyond the operational and functional, through the tactical, and towards a more strategic level of understanding in a wider variety of business environments and global contexts.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll be internationalising your capabilities and will evaluate a range of intervention theories in terms of systems thinking and change management. You will research to evaluate the application of Systems theory to an organisation.</p>

<p>At the Masters level you will focus on the philosophies and practice of systems thinking.&nbsp; You will develop a dissertation or management project based on systems thinking and organisational change. This is a significant piece of work culminating in your resolutions of, and perspectives on, strategic managerial problems relating to systems and change management. </p>
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	  <title>Book - Thinking in Systems: A Primer  (2008)  </title>
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<strong>Published:</strong>  2008  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/chelsea_green">Chelsea Green</a>&emsp;&#8226;&emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/earthscan">Earthscan</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 1603580557 &#8226; 240 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From the Sustainability Institute:</p>

<blockquote><p><q>Thinking in Systems</q> is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”—Hunter Lovins, founder and President of Natural Capital Solutions and coauthor of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution</p>

<p>In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, <q>Limits to Growth</q>—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.</p>

<p>Meadows’ newly released manuscript, <q>Thinking in Systems</q>, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.</p>

<p>Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.</p>

<p>While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.</p>

<p>In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.</p>
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	  <title>Book - The Systems Thinking Playbook  (2008)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/meadows" title="Click to view all resources connected to Dennis Meadows">Dennis Meadows</a>, <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/booth_sweeney" title="Click to view all resources connected to Linda Booth Sweeney">Linda Booth Sweeney</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2008  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/the_sustainability_institute">The Sustainability Institute</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 0966612779 &#8226; 252 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Ring Bound<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<blockquote><p>The Systems Thinking Playbook is a lively resource for the promotion of Systems Thinking.</p><p>Packed full of hands-on games and activities that stretch the mind and alter pre-conceived perceptions, The Systems Thinking Playbook is an ideal way to teach people to &#8220;go wide&#8221; and see underlying cause and effect relationships and recognize the delays inherent in any complex systems. The Playbook also abounds with practical advice for using the exercises to maximize the learning experience.</p><p>It has been used widely by schools, government agencies (both in the US and Internationally) and corporations to train managers to &#8220;think beyond the loop.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><h4>Book with companion DVD!</h4>
<p>This book has become a favorite of K-12 teachers, university faculty, and corporate consultants. It provides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companion DVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the 30 games.</p>

<p>The 30 games are classified by these areas of learning Â– Mental Models, Team Learning, Systems Thinking, Shared Vision and Personal Mastery. Each description clearly explains when, how, and why the game is useful. There are explicit instructions for debriefing each exercise as well as a list of all required materials. A summary matrix has been added for a quick glance at all 30 games. When you are in a hurry to find just the right initiative for some part of your course, the matrix will help you find it.</p>

<p>Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows both have many years of experience working with adults. This book reflects their insights. Every game works well and provokes a deep variety of new insights about paradigms, system boundaries, causal loop diagrams, reference modes, and leverage points. Each of the 30 exercises here was tested and refined many times until it became a reliable source of learning. Some of the games are adapted from classics of the outdoor education field. Others are completely new. But all of them complement readings and lectures to help participants understand intuitively the principles of systems thinking.</p>

<p>The book includes many quotations from practitioner, who share their insights about the relevance of specific exercises. There are also citations for related reading</p>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/booth_sweeney" title="Click to view all resources connected to Linda Booth Sweeney">Linda Booth Sweeney</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2001  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/pegasus_communications">Pegasus Communications Inc.</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 1883823528 &#8226; 128 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From the publisher:</p>
<blockquote><h4>New kind of thinking prepares kids for a complex world</h4>

<p>Preparing our children for life in the complex world of the 21st century is arguably the most important of all our responsibilities. Now, a new book focuses directly on how we can cultivate in kids the thinking skills that will help them the most in facing the unique challenges ahead. <q>When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories (Pegasus Communications, 2001, $14.95)</q>, breaks new ground by educating our children to think beyond the limitations of conventional mindsets and to find creative, responsible paths to sharing our lives and our world.</p>

<p>Praised by innovators in learning such as Dawna Markova, and Peter Senge, <q>When a Butterfly Sneezes</q> guides parents (or teachers) in using popular children&#8217;s picture books to help kids learn the basic skills and concepts of &#8220;systems thinking&#8221; in a fun and memorable way. So, when you consider the outlandish consequences of giving a mouse a cookie or the escalation of the Zooks&#8217; and Yooks&#8217; battles over the right way to butter toast, you really are starting to understand the same basic processes that underpin such weighty issues as global warming, population changes, and international conflicts.</p>

<p>Systems thinking, a method for understanding complex interconnections, always looks for the &#8220;feedback loops&#8221; that determine the behavior of a system, whether biological, social, ecological, or economic. These loops are the building blocks of all systems, regardless of their level of complexity. Because most picture books fail to take into account feedback processes, author Linda Booth Sweeney contends that they give children the wrong ideas about how the world really works. Typically, A causes B, B causes C. End of story. </p>

<p>But our world is rarely so simple. Sweeney points out that getting stuck in this kind linear thinking can be a big obstacle for kids as our world becomes more complicated and interconnected. The stories featured in When a Butterfly Sneezes focus on connections that are best described as loops: that is, A causes a change in B, B causes a change in C, and then C in turn causes a change in A. In this way the feedback loops form a web of relationships among the changing elements of a &#8220;system.&#8221;</p>

<p>Changes in the world around us that are puzzling when examined with linear thinking become understandable from the perspective of systems thinking. Aided by systems thinking skills, children learn to question simplistic explanations. They start to see the systems they are part of, to look for patterns in how things happen, to understand why problems arise, and to figure out what they can do about them. Ideally, they learn to influence and design systems to produce better outcomes.</p>
<p>The first two sections of the book offer a basic introduction to systems and systems thinking, and detailed tips for how to use the book with children. The third section includes a comprehensive guide to the 12 children&#8217;s books. The books include The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Sneetches, The Lorax, The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats, Anno&#8217;s Magic Seeds, Zoom, traditional Native American stories, The Butter Battle Book, and If You Give Mouse a Cookie. Each chapter outlines the age range (generally 4 to 8 year-olds), the relevant systems thinking concepts, a quick summary of the plot, teaching tips, personal accounts from people who have used the stories with kids, the questions to stimulate thought and conversation, and a short list of related books. The book comes complete with several appendices-a guide to reading systems thinking diagrams, tips for choosing your own systemic children&#8217;s stories, and guidelines for using the book in trainings with adults.</p>
<p>Linda Booth Sweeney is a Harvard-trained educator and researcher who is dedicated to helping children and adults understand how the natural and social worlds function through the field of systems thinking. As a researcher and consultant, Linda has worked with the Society for Organizational Learning, and has helped member companies-including AT&amp;T, Ford and Visteon, and other for- and non-profit organizations-to develop capacity in systems thinking and its related disciplines. Linda lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. She is currently at work on several &#8220;systems-oriented&#8221; stories for children.</p>
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	  <title>Book - Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime&#8230;.  (2008)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[<img src="http://systems-thinkers.org/images/se_resources/0955008182.jpg" alt="Book - Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime&#8230;.  (2008)  " /><br /><br />
by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/seddon_john" title="Click to view all resources connected to John Seddon">John Seddon</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2008  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/triarchy_press">Triarchy Press</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 0955008182 &#8226; 228 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
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<blockquote><p>The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there&#8217;s been massive investment in public sector &#8216;improvement&#8217;, &#8216;customer choice&#8217; has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.</p>
<p>But our experience is that things haven&#8217;t changed much. This is because governments have invested in the wrong things. Belief in targets, incentives and inspection; belief in economies of scale and shared back-office services; belief in &#8216;deliverology&#8230; these are all wrong-headed ideas and yet they have underpinned this government&#8217;s attempts to reform the public sector.</p>
<p>John Seddon here dissects the changes that have been made in a range of services, including housing benefits, social care and policing. His descriptions beggar belief, though they would be funnier if it wasn&#8217;t our money that was being wasted.</p>
<p>In place of the current mess, he advocates a Systems Thinking approach where individuals come first, waste is reduced and responsibility replaces blame. It&#8217;s an approach that is proven, successful and relatively cheap - and one that governments around the world, and their advisers, need to adopt urgently.</p>
<p>John Seddon trained originally as an occupational psychologist. He is known around the world for his pioneering work on change in organisations and for translating and adapting the Toyota Production System (TPS) for use by service organisations.</p>
<p>John is also known for his consistently informed and controversial criticism of management fads and of much of the theory that has underpinned public sector reform. He is the leading advocate of systems thinking in business and in the public sector.</p>
<p>John is a widely published author and lectures at seminars conferences, universities and management schools around the world. He is Managing Director of Vanguard Ltd, a consultancy specialising in organisational change, and is a visiting professor at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, University of Cardiff.</p>
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	  <title>Book - Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager&#8217;s Guide to Applying Systems  (2002)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/sherwood_dennis" title="Click to view all resources connected to Dennis Sherwood">Dennis Sherwood</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2002  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/nicholas_brealey_publishing_ltd">Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd.</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 185788311X &#8226; 235 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
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<blockquote><p>Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to <q>see the forest for the trees</q>.</p>

<p>Only by taking a broad view can we avoid the twin dangers of a silo mentality - in which a fix &#8216;here&#8217; simply shifts the problem to &#8216;there&#8217; - and organisational myopia - in which a fix &#8216;now&#8217; gives rise to a much bigger problem to fix &#8216;then&#8217;.</p>

<p>Seeing the Forest for the Trees will give you all the tools and techniques you need, with many practical examples as diverse as managing a busy back office, negotiating an outsourcing deal and formulating business strategy.</p>

<p>Dennis Sherwood was for twelve years a consulting partner with Coopers &amp; Lybrand and was subsequently an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London, a partner in Bossard Consultants, and Vice President of SRI Consulting. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and California, and a Sloan Fellow, with Distinction, of the London Business School, he is now the Managing Director of Organica Consulting which specialised in building competitive advantage through innovation whose clients include Thames Water, Nestle, National Grid, Pearson TV, The Defence Evaluation &amp; Research Agency, Wedgewood, and Yorkshire Electricity. He is a is well-known on the conference circuit and is the author of five previous books including Smart Things to Know About Innovation and Unlock Your Mind.</p>
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	  <title>Book - Systems Archetype Basics: From Story To Structure  (2007)  </title>
	<dc:creator>Maestoso</dc:creator>
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<![CDATA[<img src="http://systems-thinkers.org/images/se_resources/1883823048.jpg" alt="Book - Systems Archetype Basics: From Story To Structure  (2007)  " /><br /><br />
by <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/kim" title="Click to view all resources connected to Daniel H. Kim">Daniel H. Kim</a>, <a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/person/anderson" title="Click to view all resources connected to Virginia Anderson">Virginia Anderson</a><br />
<strong>Published:</strong>  2007  by &emsp;<a href="http://systems-thinkers.org/index.php/resources/organisation/pegasus_communications">Pegasus Communications Inc.</a><br />
<strong>ISBN:</strong> 1883823048 &#8226; 208 pages   &#8226; <strong>Delivery Format: </strong> Hard Copy - Paperback<br /><br />
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>From the publisher:</p><blockquote><p>Does your organization make the same mistakes over and over again, without being able to get a grip on the cause? If so, a systems archetype might be at work behind the scenes! The archetypes depict the recurring &#8220;stories&#8221; that often indicate imbalance in a system.</p><p>Working with these tools can help individuals and teams surface their mental models, communicate the &#8220;story,&#8221; and engage in creative dialogue about the entire system.</p><p>Written by top authors in the field, this workbook brings you the latest thinking about the archetypes&#8212;and provides plenty of practice using them.</p><p>Familiarize yourself with eight classic archetypes, such as <q>Fixes That Fail</q> and <q>Limits to Success</q>, by working step-by-step through vivid examples, illustrations, and exercises. Additional activities, potential responses, a handy &#8220;archetypes at a glance&#8221; chart, and a glossary of terms complete your learning experience.</p><p>Ideal for self-study or group practice, Systems Archetype Basics will give you the confidence and skill to start putting your knowledge to work.</p>
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