Systems Thinking and Action Research for Innovation

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-12
• Mått: 174 x 246 x 21 mm
• Vikt: 730 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 284
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781032650418

• Affärsutveckling

Ben Clegg is Professor of Operations Management and Systems Thinking and Founder of the PrOH Modelling Methodology. His research has received millions of pounds of funding from industry and government that has recently focused on the digitalisation of small-to-medium sized organisations. He has previously worked with larger international companies and their supply chains to improve lean six sigma, concurrent engineering, enterprise management, service delivery and technical innovation. He specialises in MBA teaching and supervising researchers. He has 100+ publications including articles in top journals; he is the co-author of a leading textbook on Operations Management. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) committee member. He is Advance-HE Fellow, Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He has been Associate Dean for Business Engagement and Head of Department at Aston Business School. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Systems journal.Krishna Chaitanya Balthu is Lecturer in Operations Management and Systems Thinking. His work focuses on applying systems thinking to design and implement change in organisations. He spent over a decade as a practitioner, leading process improvement and change initiatives across knowledge-intensive firms. Drawing on this industrial experience, Krishna has led industry-academia collaboration projects that bridge research and practice. He predominantly works on funded projects enabling organisations to adopt digital technologies, circular economy principles and systemic transformation using participatory approaches such as the PrOH Modelling Methodology. He has applied PrOH Modelling across diverse industrial contexts, enhancing and extending its application to deliver measurable impact. This body of work has featured in leading management journals and practitioner magazines. He is also actively involved in transnational education and capacity-building initiatives with India and Kenya, building collaborative learning and research partnerships. His teaching portfolio includes courses on Systems Thinking, Management Consultancy and Business Model Innovation.

It's clear to me that pursuing action research is the best way to advance systems thinking and practice. This book is a significant step forward in that regard bringing together as it does systems theory, methodological practice and case studies.Professor Mike C Jackson OBE, Emeritus Professor, University of HullResearch with impact is challenging to do, this book shows a way to do this. It gives a detailed methodology and techniques, show how to abduct to theory and illustrates its narrative with beautiful diagrams from real cases.Professor Janet Godsell, Professor, Loughborough UniversityThis book is highly recommended for its holistic and structured approach to understanding and improving organisational processes as dynamic, interrelated systems that drive sustainable performance. Although systems thinking underpins change it is difficult to practice; this book achieves this with gravitas.Professor Umit Bititci, Emeritus Professor, Herriot Watt UniversityAction research is about accessing meaning through rigorous attention to how issues are constructed, how actions are planned, implemented, and evaluated, and how learning captured informs practical and theoretical knowledge; it can benefit from the scholarly application of a well-defined methodology as presented in this book.Professor Paul Coughlan, Professor, Trinity College Dublin

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