Tomlinson / Kiss Rethinking the Process of Operational Research & Systems Analysis

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-9293-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Frontiers of Operational FORS

Invited contributions from distinguished practitioners and methodologists of operational research and applied systems analysis which represent a true state-of-the-art and which provide, perhaps for the first time, a coherent, interlocking, set of ideas which may be considered the foundations of the subject as a science in its own right.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomlinson, R.

Kiss, I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Rethinking the Process of Operational Research and Systems Analysis;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Preface;6
6;Introduction;12
7;Chapter 1. Future Methodology Based on Past Assumptions?;16
7.1;1. ON THE METHODOLOGY - THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE;16
7.2;2. ON THE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE PRESENT METHODOLOGY;21
7.3;3. TOWARDS A SOLUTION;24
7.4;4. ON A POSSIBLE APPROACH TO BE MORE "SCIENTIFIC'';26
7.5;5. CONCLUDING REMARKS;29
7.6;REFERENCES;30
8;Chapter 2. Systems Approach and Systems Analysis;34
8.1;INTRODUCTION;34
8.2;SYSTEMS ANALYSIS CRITICISM AND ITS LESSONS;36
8.3;STRUCTURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND THE PROBLEM OF "WHOLENESS";39
8.4;THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERRELATION OF SYSTEM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT;42
8.5;REFERENCES;46
9;Chapter 3. The Deliberative Context of Systems Analysis;48
9.1;THE WORLD OF ORASA;48
9.2;THE ORIGINS OF THE PRESENTATION TO THE IIASA SEMINAR;49
9.3;AN OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION TO THE IIASA SEMINAR;51
9.4;COMMENTS ON SOME ISSUES ARISING FROM THE IIASA SEMINAR;53
9.5;REFERENCES;56
10;Chapter 4. Rethinking a Systems Approach;58
10.1;INTRODUCTION;58
10.2;SYSTEMS THINKING, THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT AND "A SYSTEMS APPROACH";58
10.3;HARD SYSTEMS THINKING AND ITS "SYSTEMS APPROACH";62
10.4;SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING AND ITS "SYSTEMS APPROACH";63
10.5;SYSTEMS THINKING, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL REALITY;66
10.6;MATCHING SITUATION AND METHODOLOGY;72
10.7;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;74
10.8;REFERENCES;74
11;Appendix to Chapter 4: The Changing Process of Systems Analysis:
An Outline Systems Analysis;76
11.1;INTRODUCTION;76
11.2;METHODOLOGY;76
11.3;RICH PICTURE;77
11.4;ROOT DEFINITIONS OF RELEVANT SYSTEMS;78
11.5;COMPARISON;79
11.6;REFERENCES;80
12;Chapter 5. Thought and Wisdom;82
12.1;REFERENCES;91
13;Chapter 6. Policy Analysis for Advising Rulers¹;94
13.1;I. SCOPE AND PURPOSE;94
13.2;II. IMPORTANCE OF RULERS AND THEIR DECISIONS;96
13.3;III. REQUIRED CHANGES IN POLICY ANALYSIS;100
13.4;POLICY ANALYSIS FOR ADVISING RULERS AS ISLANDS OFPROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE;103
13.5;POLICY ANALYSIS NEAR AND FOR RULERS;110
13.6;POLICY ANALYSIS FOR RULERS AS PROVIDING ESSENTIAL AND UNIQUE HELP;116
13.7;ADVANCED POLICY ANALYSIS METHODS FOR ADVISING RULERS;125
13.8;IV. REALITY AND PROSPECTS;131
13.9;FOOTNOTES;134
13.10;REFERENCES;135
14;Chapter 7. Change in the Paradigms of Systems Analysis;140
14.1;REFERENCES;148
15;Chapter 8. Current Methodological Problems of Systems Analysis and Its Application;150
15.1;1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;150
15.2;REFERENCES;156
16;Chapter 9. The Craft of Applied Systems Analysis;158
16.1;1. HOW SCIENTIFIC IS APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS?;158
16.2;2. THE SEARCH FOR STANDARDS OF QUALITY;160
16.3;3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM SOLVING;162
16.4;4. APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AS CRAFT WORK;164
16.5;5. THE COMPONENTS OF ANALYSIS;168
16.6;REFERENCES;171
17;Chapter 10. If Applied Systems Analysis is "True", must it also be "Bad" and "Ugly"? A note on the emerging methodology of Systems Analysis;174
17.1;INTRODUCTION;174
17.2;AN OVERVIEW OF A GENERAL METHODOLOGY FOR ASA;175
17.3;REFERENCES;181
18;Chapter 11. Organizational Decision Processand ORASA Intervention;184
18.1;INTRODUCTION;184
18.2;1. A RESEARCH PROGRAM: TO OBSERVE THE CONCRETE DECISION PROCESS IN ORDER TO MASTER INTERVENTION;185
18.3;2. WHAT IS DECISION? THE MANIFOLD COMPLEXITIES OF CONCRETE DECISION PROCESS;188
18.4;3. IMPLICATIONS FOR ORASA INTERVENTIONS;195
18.5;BIBLIOGRAPHY;199
19;Chapter 12. Analysis of Systems Support – Some ideas on improving Systems Analysis;202
19.1;INTRODUCTION;202
19.2;SIGNALS TO RETHINKING;203
19.3;SOMETHING ABOUT EXPERIENCE;205
19.4;ENLARGEMENT. MORE EXAMPLES;208
19.5;TECHNICAL MATTERS: ROUNDING UP;212
19.6;MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW;217
19.7;REFERENCES;218
20;Chapter 13. Rethinking the Process of Systems Analysis and Operational Research: From Practice to Precept – and BackAgain;220
20.1;INTRODUCTION;220
20.2;IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRACTITIONER;222
20.3;IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER ACTORS;230
20.4;REFERENCES;236
21;Appendix: About the Authors;238