Here is a growing list of resources related to Systems Theory, Systems Thinking and Systems Practice.
Introductory Level:
- Systems explained by Sir Geoffrey Vickers in 1978 (OU – video)
- Systems explained by Peter Checkland, creator of the “soft systems methodology” approach to management problem solving (OU – audio)
- Systems explained by Russell Ackoff (OU – audio)
Blogs & Communities:
- Systems thinking in practice (OU alumni’s LinkedIn group)
- Systems thinking network (LinkedIn systems group, formerly Systems Thinking World)
- Systems wiki (entry point into Gene Bellinger’s Systems Thinking World)
- Just practicing (systems practice blog by Helen Wilding)
- When systems thinking crosses my mind (a systems thinking inquiry student-blog)
- Wouldn’t it be nice if…? (another systems thinking in practice student-blog)
- Boundaries, perspectives, relationships (part of the Bryan Hopkins’ consulting website)
Academic Journals:
- Cybernetics and Human Knowing – cybernetics (traditionally referring to the exploration of regulatory systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities) and autopoiesis (systems with the capability for reproducing and maintaining themselves) – link to OU Library here)
- Emergence: Complexity & Organization – human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those organizations (OU access link here)
- Knowledge Management Research & Practice – managing knowledge, organisational learning, intellectual capital and knowledge economics (OU access link here)
- Systemic Practice and Action Research – critical systems thinking and its applications in understanding complexities in the modern world (OU access link here)
- Systems Research and Behavioral Science – theories, research and applications about of living and non-living systems (OU access link here)