Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity : From Problem Framing to Problem Solving

Part 1: Organizational Theme -- Using systems modeling to examine law enforcement collaboration in the response to serious crime -- Managing Complexity in Organizations through a Systemic Network of Projects -- Family of Related Systemic Elements (FoRSE™) Matrix: Big(ger) Picture Thinking and Application for Business and Organizations -- Part 2: Disaster Management Theme -- Disentangling wicked problems: a reflexive approach towards resilience governance -- Post-disaster reconstruction – what does it mean to rebuild with resilience -- Black swans, dragon kings and beyond: towards predictability and suppression of extreme all-hazards events through modeling and simulation -- Part 3: Systems approaches Theme -- Supporting Intelligence Analysis through visual thinking -- The Benefits of systems-thinking approach to accident investigation -- Systems Theory as a foundation for discovery of pathologies from complex system problem formulation -- Soft (?) social systems and shocks: an experiment with an agent based model -- System Failure? Why humanitarian assistance can’t met its objectives without systems thinking- and why it finds it so hard to use it -- Using First Nations systems thinking to operationalize sustainable development. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783319211053