Sunday, 8.48pm
Sheffield, U.K.
My methodology is not knowing what I’m doing and making that work for me. –Stone Gossard
This is a retake of a talk I did in 2025 at the EURO conference on the history and foundations of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
I go into:
- The origins of SSM in Systems Engineering applied to problems faced by managers
- SSM as a part of Soft Operations Research (OR), and views of Soft OR.
- Key books that documented SSM’s development
- SSM over the years, and the “definitive” version of the methodology
- Issues and critical views of SSM
- A summary of how to use OR for problem solving.
The AI transcription of this talk is laughable so I’m going to protect you from that summary.
Cheers,
Karthik
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