Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of Systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers.
Karen Shipp is an educator and facilitator who created interactive and transformative learning experiences at The Open University from 1987 to 2011, the last ten of these as a lecturer in the Systems Group..
He holds a Ph D in information Systems from the University of Lancaster.
As well as researching the history of Systems thinking, he conducts research on critical approaches to the concept of information and on the organisational and social impact of collaborative technologies.
About the Author Magnus Ramage is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at The Open University, where he has worked since 2000, teaching Systems thinking and sociotechnical IT systems.
A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader\'s interest in Systems writers, providing an appetising \'taster\' for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the Thinkers themselves.
Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the Thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas - biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others.
This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker\'s own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which Thinkers are most relevant to their own interests.
It discusses each thinker\'s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas.
Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of Systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers
