Managing Complex Tasks with Systems Thinking

This book is about improving human decision making and  performance in complex tasks. Utilizing systems thinking approach, this  book presents innovative and insightful solutions to various managerial  issues in various domains including agriculture, education, climate  change, digital transformation, health care, supply chains, and  sustainability. Practical insights and operational causal models are  systematically presented. The key features of the didactic approach of  this book are core knowledge, numerous tables and figures throughout the  text, system archetypes, and causal loop models.

This  book serves as a text for college and university courses on Systems  Thinking for Management Decision Making in Complex Tasks. Researchers  use the developed “causal models” to design and evaluate various  decision-aiding technologies. It is used as a source of practical  information for a broad community of decision-makers, researchers, and  practitioners concerned with the issue of improving human performance in  complex organizational tasks.