Organisational learning—a critical systems thinking discipline

Critical Systems Thinking

Within the systems movement, several strands and different sub-movements have developed in the last two or three decades. One of them is the “critical systems approach” which opposes certain assumptions and methodological and practical implications of the so-called hard and soft systems approaches. The most essential characteristics of the approach are its critical standpoint against exclusion ...

Desperately Seeking Systems Thinking in the Information Systems Discipline

Although called systems, information systems in organizations are often viewed as tools that “users” use. IS success is often gauged as though it were about acceptance and usage of a tool. System development is often conceived as building computerized tools that satisfy information requirements of idealized business processes. Frequent IS disappointments and occasional failures are often attrib...

The Effect of Clinical Concept Mapping on Discipline Based Critical Thinking of Nursing Students

Introduction: Enhancing nursing students' critical thinking is a challenge faced by nursing educators. This study is aimed at determining the effect of clinical concept mapping using nursing process on discipline based critical thinking of 4th year nursing students. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, a convenient sample of 32 nursing students participated. They were randomly assigned t...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Chaordic Systems Thinking as a Basin for Organisational Novelty

Chaordic Systems Thinking (CST) is a framework that uses chaos as a lens and as a metaphor for change. CST is developed as a successor of Open Systems Thinking (OST) [5] [6]. Its basic terms and concepts are described below. Complexity is defined neither as a theory, nor as a lens, but rather as one – among many – characteristics of whole systems [3]. We take this position as point of departure...