Lane, David C. with Mike C Jackson, "Only Connect! Part II: An annotated Selection from the Literature on the Breadth and Scope of Systems Thinking", 1994
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What other activities and techniques exist that are interest to system dynamicists? Are there possibilities for system dynamics itself to contribute to them? These questions have been of interest to the authors for some time and now the 1994 System Dynamics conference is helping to advance the debate. This paper tries to help things along. We consider two areas of interest: the problem structuring techniques of ‘soft’ operational research and the wide range of system thinking concepts employed in the systems movement. Both involve valuable ideas and experiences. Both have a more European-orientated perspective, in contrast to the mainly-US viewpoint of system dynamics. In this two-part paper we therefore offer a selection from the literature of the two as well as brief annotations.