O’Donovan, Brendan
Systems Thinking: From Heresy to Practice
1. Introduction
Keivan Zokaei, John Seddon, Brendan O’Donovan
Part I. Systems Thinking in Public Sector
2. How Systems Thinking Provides a Framework for Change: A Case Study of Disabled Facilities Grant Service in Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Keivan Zokaei
3. Systems Thinking in Adult Social Care: How Focusing on a Customer’s Purpose Leads to Better Services for the Vulnerable in Society and Enhances Efficiency
Brendan O’Donovan
4. Seeing Shared Work within a System
Rhian Hamer, Sarah Lethbridge
5. Improving Performance Throughout a Housing Supply Chain: Portsmouth City Council’s Systems Thinking Transformation
Brendan O’Donovan, Keivan Zokaei
6. Organisational Change: Evaluating Systems Thinking in the UK Housing Sector — A Work in Progress
Joe Marshall
7. Rethinking for Radical Improvement in the Delivery of Housing Services: An Overview of the Application of Systems Thinking in the Housing Sector
Donna Samuel, Barry Evans
8. Systems Thinking for Public Services: Adopting Manufacturing Management Principles
Ayham Jaaron, Chris Backhouse
Part II. Systems Thinking in Private Sector
9. Real Service Improvement: An Empirical Investigation of Service Improvement Initiatives within a UK Bank
David Longbottom, Julie Hilton, Ying Xia-Zheng
10. Electrifying Performance: A Study of a Systems Thinking Intervention at a UK Electrical Distribution Network Operator
Mark Hopkinson
11. Improving Software Project Management in Bureaucracies
Peter Middleton, Brendan O’Donovan
12. The System is Always Greater than its Parts: Using the Theory of Constraints and Factory Physics to Transform Manufacturing Operations
Justin Watts
Avainsanat: Business and Management, Operations Management, Business Mathematics, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Industries, Human Geography
- Toimittaja
- O’Donovan, Brendan
- Seddon, John
- Zokaei, Keivan
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2011
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 301 sivua
- Kategoria
- Talous
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230299221
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-33072-0