Fostering Design Culture Through Cultivating the User-Designers' Design Thinking and Systems Thinking

In this paper, the essence of design thinking and systems thinking is reviewed, analyzed, and synthesized. Although there are many valuable schools of systems thinking, I focus on both Banathy's and Senge's since there are design spirit embedded in their systems thinking. I attempt to grasp the spirit of Banathy's systems models and the essence of Senge's systems thinking, incorporating them into my design inquiry. I propose adopting an enlightened, transformative design approach in order to enhance the revolution of the public's inner and outer systems through collaborative design engagement. It is expected that by utilizing the transformative design approach, the public or user–designers could gain the necessary skills to envision their own learning, assume responsibility for designing their own learning environments, and systematically reflect upon their habitual thinking and actions. Ultimately, the user-designers would be able to transform their model-driven or theory-driven approaches to systems application into a cultural approach to the cultivation of systems thinking and design thinking. Indeed, design thinking, as well as contemporary systems thinking are two powerful wings to make us fly in the capacious learning world of the 21st century.     

基于神经网络的管理信息系统综合评价方法

在建立管理信息系统综合评价指标体系的基础上，提出了一种基于BP网络的管理信息系统的综合评价方法，该方法不仅能够模拟专家对管理信息系统进行综合评价，而且避免了评价过程中的人为失误，仿真实验表明采用该方法获得的结果是令人满意的。     

Continuous Communication Control Disruptors During Systems Development

This paper presents an open-ended, exploratory study of formal and informal communication and control subprocesses during information systems development (ISD) over an extended period in a large bureaucracy. Using a participant action research strategy, the case study explores the continuous unintended disruptions and barriers to the effective implementation of the ISD project and suggests major variables associated with them. Based on an inductive analysis of the data, the authors suggest some tentatively hypothesized action stages for future research and a broad conceptual model incorporating the process variables. Implications for MIS research, management, and MIS professionals are discussed.     

基于软件重用的应用生成

软件重用技术是提高软件生产率的重要途径之一。MISAG是我们研制的一个基于软件重用技术的、集成的、通用于辅助开发MIS的工具软件系统。利用MISAG,结合程序生成技术,可以构造出满足用户需求的应用系统。     

A teleonic framework for the discussion of education policy and governance

The education systems of many countries are experiencing problems of crisis proportions today. The main reasons for this state of affairs are not so much the economic difficulties, but the outdated world views and models on which the education system is based. The present paper discusses the existing education system in terms of Teleonics, which is a process-based approach derived from general systems thinking. This approach helps to place the difficulties experienced in education in context and to formulate a more suitable system for education which would contribute to the development of both the individual and the society in which the individual find him/ herself.     

Uncovering the Dynamics of the Saudi Youth Unemployment Crisis

This paper explores a systems thinking approach to the persistent and urgent issue of youth unemployment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a complex problem given the unique social contract between government and citizens in the Kingdom. Generations of government-dependent Saudi nationals have come of age in recent decades, unfit for private sector needs and unprepared for its realities. Attempts to force this population into the private workforce are futile, resisted by Saudi workers and by private sector employers. The authors present a systems map inclusive of employment trends, education, and social dynamics, whose interactions undermine employment among Saudi youth. This mental model indicates that unemployment among this particular demographic is exacerbated by increased government spending on education, and by government-initiated measures aimed at protecting Saudi nationals in the private sector. Uncovering an archetypal systems thinking relationship between major stakeholders, that of accidental adversaries, the authors present the first steps towards modeling solutions.     

基于资源分配的MIS项目选择模型及其应用

本文论述了MIS项目选择问题的重要性, 对常用的MIS项目选择方法进行了综合分析。为克服常用方法的缺陷即无力解决具有资源约束的、多目标相互冲突且计量单位不可比的MIS项目选择问题, 本文提出了MIS项目选择的目标规划模型。最后, 本文以某公司的数据对模型进行了上机运行, 运行结果与应用常用方法所得结果比较表明, 目标规划法是MIS项目选择的较满意方法。     

关于管理信息系统与组织重构问题

本文研究管理信息系统建立、运行与组织重构的关系问题。指出了管理信息系统的建立与运行并不是一个单纯的技术任务, 组织重构应视为管理信息系统开发战略中的重要部分。在此基础上还讨论了与管理信息系统及组织重构相关的一些问题。     

A multiperspective systems-based framework for decision support systems design

This paper reviews the dominant approaches to the design of decision support systems with reference to recent developments in information technology. The complexities and difficulties of the various developments are also discussed and their implications explored. A multiperspective, systems-based framework is presented which aims to lessen these difficulties. The framework is based on the theory and concepts of critical systems thinking.     

Analysis and Study of Parallel Processing Mode inVLDB Decision Support System

1.PROBLEMSOFMISANDDSSMISprovidesallthebasicinformationindatabaseandcanderivelogicalinformationofdifferentapplicationfromacertainorganization.Afterseveralinteractiondesign,thedatabasesystemcanapproachperfectly.ThisisthecurrentconditionofmostMISdesigninChina.However,withthedevelopmentofMIS,ithasbeenrealizedthatthemorecomprehensiveandwide-rangeinformation,thelongertheresponsetimeofMISsystemworkingmeclianism,andthedatabasefilesofsuchaMISexceed4oorv5oo,whichisavery-largescalesystem.Th…     

系统思维对于独立思考精神的构建

独立思考在于能够超越感性生活的表象世界而对客观规律获得真知,并对于真正"好"生活进行合理构建。独立思考并非脱离客体而抽象存在,而是需要将主观观点通过语言进行"外化"获得客观肯定。运用系统的眼光看待自然界以及人类社会的发展是进行科学研究的必备条件,所以独立思考精神的塑造离不开现代性系统思维方式。     

决策支持系统的探讨

决策支持系统(DSS)是一种计算机辅助决策的工具,它是管理信息系统发展的高级阶段。本文介绍了决策支持系统的演变过程,并讨论了决策支持系统中模型管理的设计策略和决策支持系统结构框架的现状和未来。     

Educational systems design: Making it more user friendly

Concerns about our current public education systems have given rise to a variety of reform efforts. During the past several years, efforts have begun to emphasize the importance of systems thinking and a “systemic” approach for bringing about fundamental educational reform. In spite of the promise of system design as a model for systemic change, it has been largely ignored by its intended clients, the educational leadership. This paper explores some of the reasons for this and proposes a number of actions that need to be taken if system design is to become a viable approach.     

The Relationship of ‘Systems Thinking’ to Action Research

This article investigates the relationship of systems thinking to action research by reviewing the main developments in systems thinking and relating these to action research. There are two main lines of thought in systems thinking that lead to wholly different conceptions about action research. The first (systems thinking) advocates thinking about real social systems that it assumes exist in the world. The second (systemic thinking) supposes only that the social construction of the world is systemic. Greater emphasis is placed on systemic thinking consistent with its greater importance to contemporary action research. The article concludes that systemic thinking when taken to its practical conclusion from a critical perspective offers to action research a somewhat unique liberating praxis. Concern that any liberating praxis could remain hollow is addressed through a certain kind of ‘spiritual’ awareness that is suggested by wholeness.     

Systems Thinking and Higher Education: The Vanguard Method

Reforms to the higher education sector in the UK are only increasing competitive pressures between institutions. Universities are therefore looking to gain competitive advantage over their rivals both in terms of student experience and through administrative efficiency. This paper will present an alternative view of how to transform the way that the higher education system delivers service to students in an environment where ‘student choice’ will be viewed as of paramount importance. The paper will argue that the prevailing ‘command and control’ (Seddon 2003) management logic, which can be found at work throughout both the public and private sectors, is the primary cause of inferior, expensive service. As an alternative, this paper will explore the benefits of working in a systems thinking way, whilst comparing and contrasting this with the flawed thinking which currently prevails. The Vanguard Method (Seddon 2008) is one particular form of systems thinking which has been developed for use in service organisations (Jackson et al. 2008) and which has been applied to many public sector organisations (ODPM 2005; Middleton 2010; Zokaei et al. 2010). Using a case study methodology (Yin 2009), this paper will address what has been learnt by applying the Vanguard Method in an HEI environment for the first time.     

How can systems thinking help us in bridging the gap between science and wisdom?

The question posed in this paper refers to the inspiration of those who founded systems thinking in the fifties. It is a question that has been given new life in discussions of the foundations within the more recent schools of systems thinking of the eighties and nineties. The first part of this paper investigates the relation between science and wisdom by analysing each more closely. Against this background, the second part evaluates differing conceptions of systems thinking. Emphasized is the service science can render to wisdom. To this service, systems thinking can make a specific contribution.     

系统思维方式与主体价值观的提升

人的价值观的提升应是一项系统教育过程。教育要成功，必须要关注教育信息的互动性与互应性，促使价值观教育方式科学化、合理化。     

超越启蒙时代精神

17—18世纪欧洲启蒙运动把人类从宗教迷信中解放出来,使理性大放光华,但也坠入理性崇拜之中兼有成就和缺失。片面的理性忽略人类的人性存在和用简单性思维方式看待事物,这造成近现代史上新的社会问题。所以我们现在需要超越启蒙时代精神,把理性与人类的人文精神价值结合起来,并建立起适应复杂世界的复杂性思维方式。     

The origins and nature of critical systems thinking

Critical systems thinking is a relative newcomer in the systems tradition of thought. Nevertheless, it has already made a number of significant contributions to the field and is now developing more quickly than any other part of systems thinking. The paper charts the origins and nature of this evolving, critical systems, body of work. The author's own impressions of its development are first set out. This helps establish that critical systems thinking has come to rest upon five commitments which define its essential character. These commitments are then used to classify the published literature associated with critical systems thinking. The result is a review of the origins and nature of critical systems thinking up to 1990.