Peter Checkland

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Peter Checkland is affiliated with the following schools: Lancaster University, University of Oxford, University of Manchester

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#823

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#1591

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#481

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#895

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Peter Checkland's Degrees

Bachelors Chemistry University of Oxford
PhD Management Science University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Checkland is a British management scientist and emeritus professor of systems at Lancaster University. He is the developer of soft systems methodology : a methodology based on a way of systems thinking systems practice. Systems practice is the idea of uncovering an optimal solution within complex environments, thus leading to a thorough understanding of the system, analysing and adapting to change in the environment. In an important way his work preceded data science and change management disciplines in the next century.

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Peter Checkland's Published Works

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Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (1981) (7886)
Soft Systems Methodology in Action (1990) (2688)
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field (1998) (1177)
Soft Systems Methodology: A Thirty Year Retrospective a (2000) (1148)
Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students (2007) (876)
Action Research: Its Nature and Validity (1998) (838)
Diagnosing the system for organizations: S. BEER Wiley, Chichester, 1985, 152 + xiii pages, £7.50 (1986) (697)
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective (1999) (644)
From Optimizing to Learning: A Development of Systems Thinking for the 1990s (1985) (597)
Information, Systems, And Information Systems (1997) (528)
Soft Systems Methodology: a 30-year retrospective (1999) (526)
From framework through experience to learning: The essential nature of action research (1991) (423)
Soft Systems Methodology (2020) (299)
O.R. and the Systems Movement: Mappings and Conflicts (1983) (239)
Achieving ‘Desirable and Feasible’ Change: An Application of Soft Systems Methodology (1985) (187)
Systems Theory and Management Thinking (1994) (153)
Information systems and systems thinking: time to unite? (1988) (142)
Process and content: two ways of using SSM (2006) (125)
Soft systems methodology : a 30-year retrospective . Soft systems methodology in action (1999) (114)
Varieties of systems thinking: The case of soft systems methodology (1994) (110)
Model validation in soft systems practice (2007) (87)
Soft systems: a fresh perspective for project management (2003) (81)
Soft systems methodology: an overview (1988) (81)
Rethinking a Systems Approach (1984) (81)
Soft Systems Methodology in Action: Including a 30-Year Retrospective (2000) (76)
The Emergent Properties of SSM in Use: A Symposium by Reflective Practitioners (2000) (75)
Reflecting on SSM: the link between root definitions and conceptual models (1997) (73)
Four Conditions for Serious Systems Thinking and Action (2012) (66)
The case for “holon” (1988) (57)
Techniques in soft systems practice. III, Monitoring and control in conceptual models and in evaluation studies (1990) (54)
Developing a Methodology for Multidisciplinary Action Research: A Case Study (1995) (54)
Webs of significance: the work of Geoffrey Vickers (2005) (53)
Autobiographical retrospectives: Learning your way to ‘action to improve’ – the development of soft systems thinking and soft systems methodology (2011) (53)
Solving Problem Solving: A Potent Force for Effective Management (1996) (52)
Science and the Systems Paradigm (1976) (51)
Researching real‐life: Reflections on 30 years of action research (2010) (51)
Information management and organizational processes: an approach through soft systems methodology (1993) (51)
Systems and Scholarship: The Need to Do Better (1992) (46)
Extending the Metaphor "System" (1988) (44)
Soft systems methodology : a 30-year retrospective ; and, Systems thinking, systems practice (1999) (44)
'Classic OR' and 'Soft OR' - an asymmetric complementarity (2004) (42)
Reflecting on SSM: The dividing line between ‘real world’ and ‘systems thinking world’ (1996) (42)
Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science (1984) (37)
THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT AND THE “FAILURE” OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (1980) (36)
Reply to Eden and Ackermann: Any future for problem structuring methods? (2006) (29)
The heart of enterprise Stafford Beer (1980) (27)
Systems theory and information systems (1986) (23)
Conventional Wisdom and Conventional Ignorance: The Revolution Organization Theory Missed (1994) (23)
Formulating Problems for Systems Analysis (1980) (19)
New maps of knowledge some animadversions (friendly) on: science (reductionist), social science (hermeneutic), research (unmanageable) and universities (unmanaged) (2000) (19)
Images of systems and the systems image: presidential address to ISGSR, June 1987 (1988) (18)
Techniques in soft systems practice. IV, Conceptual model building revisited (1990) (16)
Vibration-rotation bands of deuterium cyanide (1955) (15)
Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Methodology (2011) (15)
Towards the coherent expression of systems ideas (1991) (15)
An information system won the war (1998) (11)
OR and Social Science: Fundamental Thoughts (1989) (11)
Rhetoric and reality in contracting: research in and on the NHS (1997) (10)
Data, capta, information and knowledge (2006) (10)
Researching Systems Methodology: Some Future Prospects (1989) (10)
Churchman's “anatomy of system teleology” revisited (1988) (9)
Reflections on 40 years in the management field: A Parthian shot (friendly) (2019) (9)
The Approach to Plural Rationality through Soft Systems Methodology (1985) (8)
Infra-red spectrum of rubber hydrochloride (1956) (7)
Playing Language Games (1994) (5)
The need for 'passionate'(not 'dispassionate') research in management (2004) (3)
Systems Concepts Relevant to the Problem of Integrated Production Systems (1983) (2)
Cybernetics of cognition and learning : structure and dynamics of socio-economic systems : health care systems : engineering systems methodology (1978) (1)
Comment from the Editor: Response (1993) (1)
“A Systems Approach” and “Health Service Systems”: Time to Re-Think? (1984) (1)
POM model, COAT model (2000) (0)
Progress of Cybernetics—vols. 1, 2 and 3 (1971) (0)
Book reviewNew trends in systems analysis: International symposium, Versailles 1976: C. PROUST and A. DUSSAUCHOY Volume 2 in: Lecture notes in control and information sciences Springer, Berlin, 1978, vii + 759 pages, DM 49,00, US $ 24.50, soft cover (1980) (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
BookSystems science and world order: Ervin Laszlo 260 pages (Oxford, Pergamon, 1983) (1984) (0)
Understanding Information: An introduction (1991) (0)
Comments on the conference and special issue (2010) (0)
Glimpses of Soviet Systems thinking: A Moscow diary (1989) (0)
The rise of systems theory: An ideological analysis: Robert LILIENFELD Wiley, 292 pp., £14.05 (1979) (0)
Conference Viewpoints (1983) (0)
Towards a Soft Systems Methodolgoy@@@Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. (1985) (0)
Information Systems Development: A tool kit is not enough In the paper 'Towards a tool kit for the systems analyst', Benyon and Skidntore (1988) (0)
Dealing with Complexity (1988) (0)
LONG TITLE: RETHINKING SYSTEMS THINKING: LEARNING AND COEVOLVING WITH THE WORLD SHORT TITLE: Rethinking Systems Thinking (2013) (0)
Conference Viewpoints: Invited Reviews (1985) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Address from the Systems Science Panel (1984) (0)
SIGNPOSTS TO SUCCESSFUL SYSTEMS PRACTICE (1985) (0)
Handbook of Systems Analysis: Volume 1. Overview. Chapter 5. Formulating Problems for Systems Analysis (1981) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
EE Framework of Theories GENERIC GOAL F 1 , F 2 (2014) (0)

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