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The origins and nature of critical systems thinking

Systems Practice, 1991
Critical systems thinking is a relative newcomer in the systems tradition of thought. Nevertheless, it has already made a number of significant contributions to the field and is now developing more quickly than any other part of systems thinking. The paper charts the origins and nature of this evolving, critical systems, body of work.
Michael C Jackson
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Critical reflection in planning information systems: a contribution from critical systems thinking

Information Systems Journal, 2009
AbstractThis paper presents a methodological framework to support the process of information systems (IS) planning in organizations. It draws on the ideas of critical systems thinking (CST), a research perspective that encourages the analysis of stakeholders’ understandings prior to the selection and implementation of planning methods.
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Beyond methodology choice: critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003
Summary: Professional competence in applied disciplines such as OR/MS requires both technical expertise and critically reflective skills. Yet, a widespread misconception has taken hold of the OR/MS community: `critical' and `emancipatory' systems methodologies are opposed to `hard' and `soft' ones as if they were sensible alternatives.
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The critical kernel in modern systems thinking

Systems Practice, 1990
This paper unpeels two influential contributions to modern systems thinking, Beer's viable system model (VSM) and Checkland's soft systems methodology (SSM), and finds inside a critical kernel. It is argued, indeed, that these approaches become coherent only when liberated from their regulative shells and interpreted from the critical position. So much
Michael C Jackson
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The boundaries between critical systems thinking and interpretive systems thinking: Critical comment on Flood and Ulrich's ?Testament to Conversations on Critical Systems Thinking?

Systems Practice, 1990
Ramses Fuenmayor
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Systems Thinking Through the Lens of Critical Thinking

2023
Executive Summary Systems thinking calls for a shift of our mindset from seeing just parts to seeing the whole reality in its structured dynamic unity and interconnectedness. Systems thinking fosters a sensibility to see subtle connections between components and parts of reality, especially the free enterprise capitalist system (FECS).
Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, Munish Thakur, Payal Kumar   +2 more
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Systems Thinking: A Critical Skill for Systems Engineers

INCOSE International Symposium, 2021
AbstractThis paper examines Systems Thinking (ST) as a critical skill for systems engineers. There is neither a universally accepted definition nor agreement of the knowledge base for ST or how this ‘thinking skill’ is acquired. However, there is general agreement that ST is “good” and an essential skill for a future workforce, including systems ...
Charles B. Keating, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Raed Jaradat, Joseph M. Bradley, Richard Hodge   +4 more
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Critical systems thinking and practice

European Journal of Operational Research, 2001
Abstract Critical systems thinking and the methodologies associated with it were developed precisely to allow analysis of complex societal problems and intervention to resolve such problems. Early approaches employing systems ideas, such as operational research, systems analysis and systems engineering, were suitable for tackling certain well-defined
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Critical Systems Thinking: Directed Readings

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1992
BEYOND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND HARD SYSTEMS THINKING: Operations Research as a Profession The Future of Operational Research is Past From Optimizing to Learning THE BREAK WITH SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING: Marxism and Systems Research Critical Heuristics of Social Systems Design Social Systems Theory and Practice Towards a System of Systems Methodologies ...
John Holt, R. L. Flood, M. C. Jackson
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