Soft Wholes in the Management Practice
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چکیده
Decomposition is a way to reduce complexity. After all a problem split up into manageable parts will be easier to understand than a complex whole problem. It is however a tricky, sometimes even impossible task to reconstitute these parts back to the whole. Within Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) we are advised to think in ‘wholes’. Within the (broader) systems approach the idea of ‘wholes’ relates to concepts such as layered structure, links and emergent properties. These concepts are rather hard to use for managers in practice. The paper tries to improve the usability of these concepts in practice.
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