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Advancing enquiry for system of systems engineering: paradox, critical thinking, and critical systems enquiry

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2015
The complex nature of the system of systems engineering (SoSE) field and problems it addresses amplifies the need for effective enquiry. Enquiry serves to invoke higher level thinking that can better ground exploration of SoSE problems. Effective enquiry for SoSE practice is an essential first act in any SoSE endeavour and serves to frame all that ...
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The Sacred and Profane in Critical Systems Thinking

Systems Practice, 1991
This paper looks at what we mean by being critical about systems. In particular it seeks to expand our understanding of the process of making boundary judgments so as to explore the relationship these judgments have with values and ethics.
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Operational research and critical systems thinking—an integrated perspective [PDF]

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2012
What does good OR practice mean, and what can critical systems thinking (CST) do for it? This two-part essay proposes new answers to both questions. It reaches out to the wider community of OR professionals and explains from their perspective what CST is all about and why it matters for good practice.
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Critical Systems Thinking

1991
Critical management science began to emerge as a distinctive tendency in the 1970s. Inevitably, the first steps in its evolution consisted of radical attacks upon other forms of management science. Traditional management science, already under fire from the soft systems thinkers, came under further attack from Marxist-inclined scholars such as Hales ...
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Critical Systems Thinking for Citizens

2007
If Critical Systems Thinking is to contribute to enlightened societal practice, e.g., with respect to the pressing environmental and social issues of our time, it should be accessible not only to well-trained decision makers and academics but also to a majority of citizens.
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An Ethical Basis for Critical Systems Thinking

1995
In many respects the systems designer is in the position of a legislator, responsible for the structure of institutional arrangements within which people will spend their working lives; and with the same moral duty to ensure that those arrangements embody some conception of social justice.
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Critical Systems Thinking and Information Technology

2011
This chapter presents a summary of some features of soft systems methodology—SSM, and of critical systems thinking—CST as they have been experienced from the point of view of the field of applications of information technology. It highlights the manner in which CST completes SSM in the context of the design of computer support in the form of ...
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Signposts to Critical Systems Thinking and Practice

Kybernetes, 1993
Outlines the emergence of critical systems thinking and practice and the reasons why such a development in the systems approach was necessary. Considers the limitations of traditional systems thinking and the strengths and weaknesses of three alternatives to the traditional systems approach — soft systems thinking, organizational cybernetics and ...
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Critical systems thinking: Beyond the fragments

System Dynamics Review, 1994
AbstractThis article is concerned with systems thinking as an approach to the management of complex problems. I argue that systems thinking is currently failing to make the most of the significant steps forward taken in the discipline during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Five Commitments of Critical Systems Thinking

1991
Critical systems thinking is a relative newcomer to the systems tradition of thought. Yet it is now developing more quickly than any other part of systems thinking. It is argued that, as it has evolved, critical systems thinking has taken on five commitments which distinguish it from other types of systems approach.
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