Systems Prospects

1. Systems Thinking and Theory

   1. Scenario Of Systems Engineering Of The Nineties In Czechoslovakia

      • J. Petr

      Pages 115-120

   2. The Systems Approach to Creative Problem Solving — A Forecast

      • F. W. Przystupa, K. Pudlo

      Pages 121-125

   3. Systems and Organisations

      • D. S. Pugh

      Pages 127-131

   4. The Realisation of Supra-Human Processes: The Way Ahead for Cybernetics

      • F. F. Robb

      Pages 133-139

   5. Operational Research: From Past Imperfect to Future Subjunctive

      • J. Rosenhead

      Pages 141-146

   6. Organisational Power and the Metaphor Commodity

      • F. A. Stowell

      Pages 147-153

   7. Exploring the Impact of Power in the Systems Development Process — A Three-Dimensional View

      • P. S. Thomas

      Pages 155-159

   8. Community Operational Research

      • C. Thunhurst

      Pages 161-165

   9. Systems Concepts and the Craft Of Investigation

      • R. Tomlinson

      Pages 167-173

2. Systems Practice

   1. Systems Practice

      • R. L. Flood, M. C. Jackson, P. Keys

      Pages 175-175

   2. The Use of Soft Systems Methodology in Designing a Job

      • C. Atkinson

      Pages 177-188

   3. An Overview of Information Systems Development Methodologies

      • D. E. Avison

      Pages 189-193

   4. Towards A Systems Research Agenda for the Implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

      • P. Bowker, D. Wainwright

      Pages 195-200

   5. Systems Thinking In Macro-Level Research: A Practical Example

      • S. M. Brown

      Pages 201-206

   6. Systems Thinking and Knowledge Technology in Medecine

      • E. R. Carson

      Pages 207-214

   7. Designing An Equal Opportunities Policy Framework — A Cybernetic Perspective

      • M. Floyd

      Pages 215-220

   8. Is There a Role for the Systems Professional in a Fourth Generation Environment?

      • R. S. Hammond, S. Maguire, V. Prabhu

      Pages 221-225

   9. Attempts to Apply Systems Ideas In The Education of Technologists For the Food Industries

      • S. A. Hands, D. R. Owen

      Pages 227-233

   10. Which Systems Methodology When?: Initial Results From A Research Programme

       • M. C. Jackson

       Pages 235-241

   11. Applications of Interactive Management in Planning for a University Department

       • F. R. Janes, R. Jowitt

       Pages 243-250

Systems Prospects is a record of the papers presented at the first con­ ference organised by the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS), held at Thwaite Hall, Hull University (UK), on the dates 12th-15th July, 1988. The UKSS originally came together in 1978 as the Barford Group (the first meetings were held in the town of Barford), comprising academics from the four institutions that incorporated departments which primarily were con­ cerned with developing the theory and practice of so-called systems scienc- namely Aston University, City University, Lancaster University and the Open University. The meetings of the Barford Group were deemed to be successful, so much so that a decision was made to widen its horizons to incorporate more generally those of the United Kingdom systems community (a diffuse number of academics and practitioners) - hence the title UKSS. The society, ten years later, is extant and has achieved new levels of success in the last few years in terms of rising membership and international reputation. The membership is now drawn from a wide variety of academic and commercial and industrial organisations, and from most reaches of the nation. There is also an international contingent in the membership. It is right that there should be such diversity since the UKSS is founded on the notion of equality (of creed, sex, race, class and so on ••• ). This community is "glued" together by the Society's own publication, Systemist, as well as through workshops and now this conference.

• Institution
• Policy
• diversity
• institutions
• intervention
• management
• management science
• meeting
• organization
• project management
• reputation
• research & development (R&D)
• systems theory
• university
• value-at-risk

• University of Hull, Hull, UK

  Robert L. Flood, Michael C. Jackson, Paul Keys

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