Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospective
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What is now known as Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been continuously developed and honed in a programme of action research which is now in its thirtieth year at Lancaster University. Development continues, but SSM can fairly be described as ‘mature’, that maturity stemming from a conscious focus not on systems theory, not on systems practice, but on the relation between the two: how the two continuously create each other.
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