TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff

Open Thinkering MSc Systems Thinking, TB871, Critical Systems Heuristics, Systems Thinking

Note: this is a post reflecting on one of the modules of my MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. You can see all of the related posts in this category.

This post is unashamedly a dumping ground for useful stuff from the TB871 Block 6 Tools Stream about Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) that I might want to come back and reference at some point — potentially in an upcoming assignment.

But then [a systems thinking practitioner], when he becomes very serious about his own models, in which ‘all’ of the objectives are represented and a ‘proper’ compromise is created, is also deceived. In the straight-faced seriousness of his approach, he forgets many things: basic human values and his own inability really to understand all aspects of the system, and especially its politics.

(Churchman, 1968, p. 227, quoted in The Open University, 2020a)

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