Systemic Thinking Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes
Whether you’re an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically. Problems (and messes) are everywhere and they’re getting more complicated every day. How we think abou
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Patrick T. Hester Kevin MacG. Adams
Systemic Thinking Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes
Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Volume 26
Series editor Adrian V. Gheorghe, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA Editorial Advisory Board Hirokazu Tatano, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Enrico Zio, Ecole Centrale Paris, France and Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Andres Sousa-Poza, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
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Patrick T. Hester · Kevin MacG. Adams
Systemic Thinking Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes
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Patrick T. Hester Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA USA
Kevin MacG. Adams Department of Information Technology and Computer Science University of Maryland University College Adelphi, MD USA
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To my wife for her encouragement, my children for their comic relie
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