Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity (eBook)

Part 1: Organizational Theme.- Using systems modeling to examine law enforcement collaboration in the response to serious crime; J. Brocklesby.- Managing Complexity in Organizations through a Systemic Network of Projects; D. Lepore et al.- Family of Related Systemic Elements (FoRSE™) Matrix: Big(ger) Picture Thinking and Application for Business and Organizations; B. Després.- Part 2: Disaster Management Theme.- Disentangling wicked problems: a reflexive approach towards resilience governance; H. Duijinhuven, M. Neef.- Post-disaster reconstruction – what does it mean to rebuild with resilience; K. MacAskill, P.Guthrie.- Black swans, dragon kings and beyond: towards predictability and suppression of extreme all-hazards events through modeling and simulation; A.J. Masys et al.- Part 3: Systems approaches Theme.- Supporting Intelligence Analysis through visual thinking; S. Strang, A.J. Masys.- The Benefits of systems-thinking approach to accident investigation; S.A. Bennett.- Systems Theory as a foundation for discovery of pathologies from complex system problem formulation; P. F. Katina.- Soft (?) social systems and shocks: an experiment with an agent based model; L. Ilmola, N. Strelkovsky.- System Failure? Why humanitarian assistance can’t met its objectives without systems thinking- and why it finds it so hard to use it; S. Levine.- Using First Nations systems thinking to operationalize sustainable development; I.Taylor, M. McCormick.