Mastering the Problematics of Competitiveness of the Modern Railway Transport Demands the Application of Dialectic ...

• Main Author: Bojan Rosi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences 2005-03-01
• Series: Promet (Zagreb)
• Subjects: railway transport system; systems thinking; dialectic network thinking; complexity; synergy effects; problem-solving
• Online Access: http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/623

In order to ensure a more efficient and successful managementof organisational and business systems a vast amount oftheoretical and practical instructions, techniques, methods, etc.are being offered nowadays. Without the knowledge and the applicationof the science of systems thinking we would not be in aposition to integrate the theory and practise into a single, so-called unintenupted inter-dependant dynamic process. Preciselythese (quotidian) processes give namely rise to complexproblematic situation, which cannot be solved by applying thesimple and in many cases already outdated methods.Therefore, the starting points of our research have beenbased on transcending merely conventional methods of the organisationstudy and we directed our efforts towards the intricacy- complexity1, that is, the one that we detect in theapplicative example of the problematics related to railway activities.In this manner we will for the first time represent somekey findings of several years of investigations (Rosi, 2004) andemergence of a new and original methodology of dialectic networkthinkintf in solving the complex (business) problems orproblematics that arise from them ( = interconnections, systemof problems).