Systems Prospects: The Next Ten Years of Systems Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Systems Thinking and Theory....Pages 1-2
The Systems Study of Human Action in a Real World....Pages 3-7
Researching Systems Methodology: Some Future Prospects....Pages 9-15
Systems Thinking in the Study of Culture....Pages 17-22
System Dynamics — The Next Ten Years....Pages 23-27
An Overview of Accounting as an Information System....Pages 29-34
From Natural to Transcendental Systems: The Attributes and Systems Connectivity Problems of “What is an Information System?”....Pages 35-39
From Management Science to Cultural Science: An Exploration of Different Styles in Organisational Culture....Pages 41-45
Technological Change and the Human Aspect....Pages 47-54
Systems: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 55-60
Whatever Happened to General Systems Theory?....Pages 61-66
Towards a More Holistic Systems Analysis Process....Pages 67-71
Future Prospects in Systems Thinking....Pages 73-80
Linguistic Modelling of Situations....Pages 81-85
Reason and Magic in Systems....Pages 87-92
An Intelligent User Friendly Interface for a Database Design Expert System....Pages 93-96
Conversion of Knowledge to a New Purpose....Pages 97-102
Systems to Support Group Work Activities: The Past, Present, and Future....Pages 103-108
Towards Thematic Consolidation in Critical Management Science....Pages 109-114
Scenario Of Systems Engineering Of The Nineties In Czechoslovakia....Pages 115-120
The Systems Approach to Creative Problem Solving — A Forecast....Pages 121-125
Systems and Organisations....Pages 127-131
The Realisation of Supra-Human Processes: The Way Ahead for Cybernetics....Pages 133-139
Operational Research: From Past Imperfect to Future Subjunctive....Pages 141-146
Organisational Power and the Metaphor Commodity....Pages 147-153
Exploring the Impact of Power in the Systems Development Process — A Three-Dimensional View....Pages 155-159
Community Operational Research....Pages 161-165
Systems Concepts and the Craft Of Investigation....Pages 167-173
Systems Practice....Pages 175-175
The Use of Soft Systems Methodology in Designing a Job....Pages 177-188
An Overview of Information Systems Development Methodologies....Pages 189-193
Towards A Systems Research Agenda for the Implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology....Pages 195-200
Systems Thinking In Macro-Level Research: A Practical Example....Pages 201-206
Systems Thinking and Knowledge Technology in Medecine....Pages 207-214
Designing An Equal Opportunities Policy Framework — A Cybernetic Perspective....Pages 215-220
Is There a Role for the Systems Professional in a Fourth Generation Environment?....Pages 221-225
Attempts to Apply Systems Ideas In The Education of Technologists For the Food Industries....Pages 227-233
Which Systems Methodology When?: Initial Results From A Research Programme....Pages 235-241
Applications of Interactive Management in Planning for a University Department....Pages 243-250
Designing an Intervention System: A Prescription for Community OR....Pages 251-256
An Issue-Based Analysis of the Development of Soft Systems Methodology....Pages 257-260
The System Life Cycle: Inflexibility in an Ever-Changing Environment....Pages 261-264
The Client Centred Concept and Organisational Change....Pages 265-271
Application of a Cybernetic Methodology to the Development of Large-Scale Projects....Pages 273-277
Systems Design and Social Science....Pages 279-283
The Concept of Contradiction in Soft Systems Practice — An Illustration....Pages 285-289
The Role of System Methodologies in Implementing Manufacturing Systems Changes....Pages 291-295
Computer-Aided Control and Management System for FMSs: A Petri Net Approach....Pages 297-300
The Structural Prerequisites for the Design of Management Information Systems: A Particular Reference to a Distribution Organisation....Pages 301-309
New Perspectives In Project Management....Pages 309-314
From Sequencing to “Thinking” In Large-Scale Projects....Pages 315-322
Applying Tracer , a Methodological Driven Model, to Project Control in the Research and Development Environment....Pages 323-328
The Contribution of Systems Ideas during the Process of Knowledge Elicitation....Pages 329-334
Cognitive Transactional Analysis in Practice....Pages 335-341
Effective Modelling at the Interface of Decision-Making and Decision Analysis....Pages 343-347
Soft Systems Research and Application....Pages 349-353
Systems and Information....Pages 355-358
Characteristics of Information Systems Definition Approaches....Pages 359-367
Using Systems Ideas to Explore the Problems of the Textile Public Sector in Egypt....Pages 369-373
Concluding Note....Pages 375-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-378