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Author : Linda Booth Sweeney,Dennis Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603582582
DVD contains videos illustrating good practice in introducing and running 30 games.
Author : Linda Both Sweeney,Dennis L. Meadows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:845730189
Author : Michael Lewrick,Patrick Link,Larry Leifer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781119467489
A radical shift in perspective to transform your organization to become more innovative The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the future of business. By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief—and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital transformation. Design Thinking is about approaching things differently with a strong user orientation and fast iterations with multidisciplinary teams to solve wicked problems. It is equally applicable to (re-)design products, services, processes, business models, and ecosystems. It inspires radical innovation as a matter of course, and ignites capabilities beyond mere potential. Unmatched as a source of competitive advantage, Design Thinking is the driving force behind those who will lead industries through transformations and evolutions. This book describes how Design Thinking is applied across a variety of industries, enriched with other proven approaches as well as the necessary tools, and the knowledge to use them effectively. Packed with solutions for common challenges including digital transformation, this practical, highly visual discussion shows you how Design Thinking fits into agile methods within management, innovation, and startups. Explore the digitized future using new design criteria to create real value for the user Foster radical innovation through an inspiring framework for action Gather the right people to build highly-motivated teams Apply Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Big Data Analytics, and Lean Start-up using new tools and a fresh new perspective Create Minimum Viable Ecosystems (MVEs) for digital processes and services which becomes for example essential in building Blockchain applications Practical frameworks, real-world solutions, and radical innovation wrapped in a whole new outlook give you the power to mindfully lead to new heights. From systems and operations to people, projects, culture, digitalization, and beyond, this invaluable mind shift paves the way for organizations—and individuals—to do great things. When you're ready to give your organization a big step forward, The Design Thinking Playbook is your practical guide to a more innovative future.
Author : Dennis Meadows,Linda Booth Sweeney,Gillian Martin Mehers
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603586764
"The simple, interactive exercises in The Climate Change Playbook can help citizens better understand climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change. Adapted from The Systems Thinking Playbook, the twenty-two games are now specifically relevant to climate-change communications and crafted for use by experts, advocates, and educators. Illustrated guidelines walk leaders through setting each game up, facilitating it, and debriefing participants. Users will find games that are suitable for a variety of audiences--whether large and seated, as in a conference room, or smaller and mobile, as in a workshop, seminar, or meeting.
Author : Donella Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781603581486
The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Author : David Peter Stroh
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603585811
Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation. How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results. Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert. Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts to end homelessness, improve public health, strengthen education, design a system for early childhood development, protect child welfare, develop rural economies, facilitate the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more. The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.
Author : Linda Booth Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biological systems
ISBN : 0982248016
Uses folk tales, myths and stories from various cultures to demonstrate natural laws and principles relating to living systems, including topics such as interdependence, biodiversity, and nonlinearity.
Author : Simon Mueller,Julia Dhar
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781292129358
The Decision Maker's Playbook is an easy-to-use, “how-to” toolkit to improve managers' decision making, using visualisations, relevant examples and actionable checklists that cater to its main target group: analytically interested, busy managers and entrepreneurs. The Decision Maker's Playbook will help readers navigate a complex world. Along the four chapters of the books, it will help you in: 1. Collective Evidence 2. Connecting the Dots 3. Crafting the Approach 4. Complete the Mission The Decision Maker's Playbook is your personal toolbox to help you make better decisions. It offers practical advice to help you understand, analyse and shape your world. As simplified representations of reality, the models portrayed in this book allow us to see patterns, identify relationships, and view the world from different vantage points. They help us understand and break up complex phenomena into tractable pieces. From Unknown unknowns over Fat Tails to Counterfactuals, this book will make lesser known but highly relevant models available for immediate use – in a visual way, supported by applicable case studies and without jargon.
Author : Derek Cabrera,Laura Cabrera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948486024
Author : Linda Booth Sweeney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399547218
A snow-day journey with Grandma highlights all of the beauty, magic, and fun of winter. With sparkling flakes calling from outside, this sister and brother bundle up for an outdoor adventure with Grandma. In the hushed woods, they see and hear wildlife thriving under a new blanket of snow. In the bustle of town, they help their grateful Grandpa dig out. Then, it’s time to get sledding! Snowy scenes capture the beauty of freshly fallen snow, and the lyrical verse delights in the magic of playing in the snow and the warm comfort of family.
Author : Gerald M. Weinberg
Publisher : Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0932633498
A classic introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. -- Back cover.
Author : Linda Booth Sweeney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698173415
Spring weather can be exciting! When wind chimes start singing and clouds race across the sky, one little guy knows just what to do—grab his kite! But as the kite soars, the wind picks up even more, and soon he and his grandma are chasing the runaway kite into town. As they pass swirling leaves, bobbing boats, and flapping scarves, breezes become gusts and the sky darkens. Rain is on the way! Can they squeeze in one more adventure before the downpour? Scenes rich with springtime details for little eyes to follow and lyrical verse that captures the changeable mood of the weather make this perfect for spring story times.
Author : Draper L. Kauffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Association of ideas
ISBN : 0964704420
Author : Will Larson
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781953953339
A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt. There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success and failure of companies. Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management—from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning—and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management for leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.
Author : Peter M. Senge
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804153164
Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.