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A platform for designing business architecture jamshid gharajedaghi president and ceo of interact former director of the busch center the research arm of the systems sciences department and adjunct professor of systems sciences at the wharton school university of pennyslvania. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading systems thinking. Download gharajedaghi sociocultural systems revised 12312 with. Systems thinking, managing chaos and complexity, a platform. He is known for his work of systems thinking, managing complexity, and business architecture. Jamshid gharajedaghi president and ceo of interact former director of the busch center the research arm of the systems sciences department and adjunct professor of systems sciences at the wharton school university of pennyslvania. Managing chaos and complexity a platform for designing business architecture third edition jamshid gharajedaghi amsterdam boston heidelberg london new york oxford paris san diego san francisco singapore sydney tokyo morgan kaufmann is an imprint of elsevier. Jamshid gharajedaghi has done just this to my work. The first edition of systems thinking was the first book to develop a working concept of systems theory and to deal. There are a few books on systems thinking out there, but this book is unique it its 30,000 feet view of the discipline.
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