Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students

By Peter Checkland, J. Poulter. 2007

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Sustainability criteria for bioenergy systems: results from an expert survey (2009, background): “Participatory quantitative or qualitative modeling exercises have proven useful in creating such an holistic overview on complex issues in fields related to bioenergy and is in the tradition of action research [34] or adaptive management (e.”
A review of sociotechnical systems theory: a classic concept for new command and control paradigms (2008, background): “So called ‘Rich Pictures (e.g. Monk and Howard 1998), social network diagrams (e.g. Driskell and Mullen 2005), soft systems methodologies (e.g. Checkland and Poulter 2006) and the Event Analysis for Systemic Teamwork methodology (e.g. Walker et al. 2006, Stanton et al. 2007) already reflect work…”
Socio-technical systems: From design methods to systems engineering (2011, methodology): “It has been used to evaluate existing information systems too (Checkland and Poulter, 2006).”
The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “‘Mediation’ implies that conscious human activity is guided, shaped and transformed by material (e.g. a screwdriver, a computer, a pencil) and psychological tools and artefacts (e.g. speech, literacy, logic, geometry).”
Facilitated modelling in operational research (2010, methodology): “…is typically supported via problem structuring methods such as SODA (Ackermann and Eden, 2001b) or Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 1981; Checkland and Poulter, 2006; Checkland and Scholes, 1990), whereas approaches such as Group Model Building (Vennix, 1996) and Decision Conferencing…”
An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa (2012, background): “system (Checkland, 1989; Checkland and Poulter, 2006): it exists to the extent that the actors realize they are part of a system, and thus appreciate their inter-dependence and mutuality, and coordinate their actions accordingly.”
Systems thinking and practice for action research (2008, unknown): “…of how different systems approaches or methodologies, including systems tools and techniques, have been employed within AR projects to bring about practical benefits for those involved (e.g. 152 Reason & Bradbury (2e)-3562-Ch-09.qxd 9/24/2007 5:29 PM Page 152 Checkland and Poulter, 2006).”