Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as "recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose. Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own strategic needs.

Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as "recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose. Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own strategic needs.

Das Zusammenwachsen der Welt und der rasche Wandel fordern uns alle heraus, als Einzelne, aber auch als Organisationen, Unternehmen und menschliche Gemeinschaften. Was systemisches Handeln bei diesen schwierigen Anpassungsprozessen leisten kann, zeigt dieses Buch anhand einer inspirierenden Einfuhrung in die Welt des systemischen Denkens und einer Auswahl praktischer Instrumente. Die Themen sind: Grossgruppenarbeit, Umfeldanalyse, Strategieentwicklung,Steuerung, Kompetenzentwicklung, Evaluation und viele mehr. "Instrumente systemischen Handelns" ist Handbuch, Lese- und Lernbuch zugleich. Es wendet sich an Fuhrungskrafte in Organisationen und Verwaltungen, Lehrer/innen, Trainer/innen und Coaches, Politiker/innen und politisch Aktive, die erkannt haben, dass es darum geht, im eigenen Verantwortungsbereich schoepferisch tatig zu sein und neue Antworten auf bestehende, vorausgeahnte und - ja, unvorhersehbare Probleme zu geben.