Systems thinking and systems dynamics / guest editor, Peter Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Peter.

Series:

The Learning Organization - Issue 6, Volume 14

Learning Organization ; 14, no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Systems engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ebook underlines once more the relevance that system dynamics holds for the overall success of all organizations, not just learning organizations, and indeed for the quality of the lives we live. The authors contributing papers to this ebook clearly not only agree that systems thinking and system dynamics has relevance for organizations, but they have set out to prove it.

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Editorial; Guest editorial; Systems thinking: a case for second-order-learning; Some new theoretical issues in systems thinking relevant for modelling corporate learning; Learning to think systemically: what does it take?; Light bulbs and change: systems thinking and organisational learning for new ventures; Insurance sector dynamics: towards transformation into learning organization; Change in(ter)ventions to organizational learning: bravo to leaders as unifying agents

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-07931-6

9786611079314

1-84663-647-7

OCLC:

182576455