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RRP: £38.59  Hardback: ‎ 352 pp  Publisher: ‎ Wiley;   ISBN 978-1394191055 A straightforward explanation of root cause analysis and systems thinking, illustrating, with real-world examples and first-hand accounts, why things can ‘slip through our fingers’ and what to do to reduce the chances of things going off track. Beyond the Five Whys summarises, for the first time, many of the tried and tested ways of understanding prob... Read more
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RRP: £27.20  Paperback: ‎ 312 pp  Publisher: ‎ Routledge;   ISBN 978-1032354972  Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply. It explains the sel... Read more
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RRP: €6.00  Kindle: ‎ 144 pp  Publisher: ‎ SCiO;   ASIN B0BNGL6WW5 Diese vorliegende Zusammenstellung von 33 Systemgesetzen und -prinzipien wurde dem Buch „The Grammar of Systems“ entnommen. Das „Grammar“ umfasst zwei Bücher in einem. In beiden Teilen geht es um System Thinking, die Disziplin, welche entwickelt wurde, um sich mit Komplexität und Unsicherheit auseinanderzusetzen. Das erste Buch erklärt, „wie“ Systemdenker anders de... Read more
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RRP: £54.95  Paperback: ‎ 252 pp  Publisher: ‎ Wiley-Blackwell;   ISBN 978-1119690825  Designing Intelligent Construction Projects Explore the potential impact of management cybernetics, lean methodologies, and digitalization on the construction sector As a heavily asset-driven industry, construction is at the crossroads of a transformation. Digitalization has already begun and is acting as a beacon. Intelligently designed ... Read more
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RRP: £15.99  Hardback: ‎ 352 pp  Publisher: ‎ Allen Lane;   ISBN 978-0241447642 Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet m... Read more
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RRP: £11.50  Paperback: ‎ 100 pp ;   ISBN: ‎ 978-3756205677  (also available in German) Who is able to synchronize the work of 100 trillion suborganizations? Who can accelerate every single process by a factor of 100 billion? Which organization has a growth rate of 100% in 20 minutes? Which organization survives and growths since 4 billion years? Life is the ultimate best-of-best-benchmark for organizations. It is time t... Read more
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RRP: £12.99  Paperback: ‎ 245 pp: Publisher: SCiO; ISBN: ‎ 979-8414307754 If you feel as though the world has become more complex, you are not alone. There is a growing realisation of the need to deal with the complexity, uncertainty and speed of change of our world. These systemic factors increase the challenge for all of us and expose some traditional approaches which are unable to handle those challenges. This book sets out the fundame... Read more
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RRP: £47.59  Paperback: ‎ 282 pp  Publisher: ‎ Lannoo Campus   ISBN‏ : ‎ 978-9401481830 Wat zijn de fundamenten voor duurzame ontwikkeling van bedrijf en mens? Hoe creëer je échte doorbraken in de kwaliteit van samenwerking? Hoe herontwerp je de organisatie van werk zo, dat de strategie gerealiseerd wordt? De meerderheid van de bedrijven slaagt er niet in wendbare organisatievormen in hun werking te verankeren. De gangb... Read more
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RRP: £8.99  Kindle eBook: ‎ 444 pp  ASIN B09RV8SS9G  English (also available in German) Nature accomplished four billion years ago what companies are still struggling with today: successful organizations that master all environmental change and endure in the long run. Understand how companies can leverage life's success principles to keep pace with 21st century change and become an adaptive and sustainable organization. Join mana... Read more
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RRP: £10  Paperback: ‎ 228 pp  Publisher: ‎ Triarchy Press;   ISBN 1913743321   A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike. In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective generates new insights, particularly into the problems that we face in the stewardship of our planet. It explains how a process-based approach allows us ... Read more
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