A Designed Framework for Delivering Systems Thinking Skills to Small Business Managers

A Designed Framework for Delivering Systems Thinking Skills to Small Business Managers

Many small businesses suffer from inadequate management skills which can lead to poor business performance and unsustainable businesses. Research to date has focused on traditional skills such as communication, time management and people skills, yet critically many business managers have no systems thinking skills. This paper presents a framework targeted at delivering systems thinking skills t...

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

Systems thinking: critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond

The problems we face at all levels in the world today resist unilateral solutions. While the web of interdependencies tightens, our capacity for thinking in terms of dynamic interdependencies has not kept pace. As the gap between the nature of our problems and the ability to understand them grows, we face increasing perils on a multitude of fronts. Systems thinking and one of its subsets—system...

A systems thinking framework for knowledge management

Myriad frameworks have been developed for knowledge management. However, the field has been slow in formulating a generally accepted, comprehensive framework for knowledge management. This paper reviews the existing knowledge management frameworks and provides suggestions for what a general framework should include. The distinguishing feature of this research is that it emphasizes placing knowl...

Adapting Accountants’ Communications to Small Business Managers’ Objectives and Preferences

Purpose – This paper explores the impact of small business managers’ objectives and preferred methods of communicating on the communications aspect of accountants’ advisory relationship with small business. Through exploring these issues, the paper aims to contribute to understanding of accounting’s capacity to satisfy the communication needs of its users. Methodology – A mixed methodology, com...