Systems Methodology

Abstract

Systems methodology is understood in this book as a family of coherent collections of methods for dealing with the various systems problems that emanate from the conceptual framework employed.* Thus, for example, one systems methodology is based upon the GSPS framework outlined in Chap. 4. Systems methodologies based upon different but equally general conceptual frameworks are capable of covering, by and large, the same class of problems. With some adjustment, methods developed under one framework can usually be converted into methods for dealing with comparable systems problems under another framework.

As our ability to solve problems expands, the scale of the problems attached themselves seem to expand at a similar rate. As a result there always exist over the horizon new categories of problems of greater size to tackle.

—David M. Himmelblau