SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING IN INDUSTRY

SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING IN INDUSTRY

<p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The industrial milieu is a traditional area for hard systems analysis, and the optimization of processes using reductionist approaches.<br />Soft Systems Thinking, with its powerful use of conceptual modelling, has been neglected in the West, but has...

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Main Author:	Keith Sandrock
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Stellenbosch University 2012-01-01
Series:	South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
Online Access:	http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/439

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