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I was delighted to be invited to write a review of Peter B. Checkland’s Systems Thinking Systems Practice – A 30 years Retrospective. As someone who has spent a significant amount of their career immersed in soft systems this was a welcome opportunity to retrace my steps by rereading one of the most significant Systems texts published in the past 35 years. I base my review of the text on my experience as a post-graduate and PhD student of Checkland’s, a practitioner and an academic.
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Stowell, F. (2016). Soft, Not Vague. In: Baecker, D. (eds) Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-20004-0_30
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