„The systems approach is not a bad idea“
— C. West Churchman American philosopher and systems scientist 1913 - 2004
Quelle: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 232
„There are no experts in the systems approach“
Quelle: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 232
C. West Churchman
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„The synthetic mode of thought, when applied to systems problems, is called the systems approach. In this approach a problem is not solved by taking it apart but by viewing it as a part of a larger problem.“
— Russell L. Ackoff Scientist 1919 - 2009
Quelle: 1970s, Redesigning the future, 1974, p. 14.
„In a quality object-oriented software system, you will find many classes that speak the language of the domain expert“
— Grady Booch American software engineer 1955
Quelle: Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project. (1996), p. 39; as cited in: Journal of Database Management. Vol 10-11. p. 33
„The comprehensiveness of OR’s aim is an example of a ‘systems’ approach, since ‘system’ implies an interconnected complex of functionally related components.“
— C. West Churchman American philosopher and systems scientist 1913 - 2004
Quelle: 1940s - 1950s, Introduction to Operations Research (1957), p. 7; cited in Werner Ulrich (2004, p. 210)
„In the modern systems approach, the concept "system" is used not to refer to things in the world but to a particular way of organising our thoughts about the world.“
— Robert L. Flood British organizational scientist 1959
Quelle: Creative Problem Solving (1991), p. 2.
„In the modern systems approach, the concept "system" is used not to refer to things in the world but to a particular way of organising our thoughts about the world.“
— Mike Jackson systems scientist 1951
Quelle: Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention (1991), p. 2
„The systems approach goes on to discovering that every world-view is terribly restricted.“
— C. West Churchman American philosopher and systems scientist 1913 - 2004
C. West Churchman, (1970) cited in: Michael C. Jackson ( 1992) Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences. p. 137
1960s - 1970s
„When it comes to the design of social and societal systems of all kinds, it is the users, the people in the system who are the experts. Nobody has the right to design social systems for someone else. It is unethical to do so. Design cannot be legislated, it should not be bought from the expert, and it should not be copied from the design of others. If the privilege of and responsibility for design is "given away," others will take charge of designing our lives and our systems. They will shape our future.“
— Béla H. Bánáthy Hungarian linguist and systems scientist 1919 - 2003
Quelle: Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996), p. 128; Cited in: Roberto Joseph et al. (2002) " Banathy's Influence on the Guidance System for Transforming Education http://www.indiana.edu/~syschang/decatur/reigeluth_pubs/documents/95_banathy_influence_on_gste.pdf". World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, 58(5/6) 379-394
„You can still fulfil your traditional obligations but the contradiction in the system between the communal approach and the free market approach needs to be addressed.“
— Mahendra Chaudhry Fijian politician 1942
Interview with Fiji Live, 22 August 2005
„For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.“
— Jasper Fforde, buch One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Quelle: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
„There are two fundamental ways of (re-)engineering information systems. The “formal driven” approach is based on the goal of developing and implementing a technical correct running system. The “content driven” approach is based on the goal of developing and implementing an organizational correct running system. By using reference models, content and technology can be combined in a new way“
— August-Wilhelm Scheer German business theorist 1941
Quelle: ARIS architecture and reference models for business process management (2000), p. 376.
„An example from soft systems thinking is Checkland's appreciation of soft systems methodology. He wants to introduce hard systems approaches to deal with hard problems only after and through a soft systems analysis.“
— Robert L. Flood British organizational scientist 1959
Robert L. Flood (1993) Dealing with Complexity: An Introduction to the Theory and … - Pagina 127.
„If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.“
— David Ben-Gurion Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel 1886 - 1973
As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 170
„However a systems problem is solved—by a planner, scientist, politician, antiplanner, or whomever—the solution is wrong, even dangerously wrong. There is bound to be deception in any approach to the system.“
— C. West Churchman American philosopher and systems scientist 1913 - 2004
Quelle: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 229; cited in Charles Smith (2007, p. 43)
„Biological communities are systems of interacting components and thus display characteristic properties of systems, such as mutual interdependence, self-regulation, adaptation to disturbances, approach to states of equilibrium, etc.“
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy austrian biologist and philosopher 1901 - 1972
As cited in: Debora Hammond (2005). "Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Systems Thinking", in: tripleC 3(2): pp. 20–27.
1950s, Problems of Life (1952, 1960)
„Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom…?“
— Gerald M. Weinberg American computer scientist 1933 - 2018
Weinberg (1976) cited in: Slawomir Sztaba (2010) "Economy and Sociology. The Likely Directions of Cooperation.". In: WFES. Vol 1, nr.1 2010. p. 218
„In sharp contrast (with the traditional social planning) the systems design approach seeks to understand a problem situation as a system of interconnected, interdependent, and interacting issues and to create a design as a system of interconnected, interdependent, interacting, and internally consistent solution ideas.“
— Béla H. Bánáthy Hungarian linguist and systems scientist 1919 - 2003
Quelle: Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996), p. 46; as cited in: Charles François (2004), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics. p. 164
„Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.“
— Arthur C. Clarke British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host 1917 - 2008
Profiles of the Future (1999, London: Victor Gollancz) p. 143
„The open system approach to organizations is contrasted with common-sense approaches, which tend to accept popular names and stereotypes as basic organizational properties and to identify the purpose of an organization in terms of the goals of its founders and leaders.
The open system approach, on the other hand, begins by identifying and mapping the repeated cycles of input, transformation, output, and renewed input which comprise the organizational pattern. This approach to organizations represents the adaptation of work in biology and in the physical sciences by von Bertalanffy and others.“
— Daniel Katz American psychologist 1903 - 1998
Quelle: The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966), p. 33
„The systems approach to problems focuses on systems taken as a whole, not on their parts taken separately. Such an approach is concerned with total- system performance even when a change in only one or a few of its parts is contemplated because there are some properties of systems that can only be treated adequately from a holistic point of view. These properties derive from the relationship between parts of systems: how the parts interact and fit together“
— Russell L. Ackoff Scientist 1919 - 2009
Cited in: Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer, Vikas Krishna (2011) The Science of Service Systems. p. 274.
1970s, Towards a System of Systems Concepts, 1971