The Systems Approach

agencies airstrip alco alcoholism mission alternatives anti-planning approach to systems arrivals aspects assumption automobile basic become behavioral scientist benefits budget components consider constraints cost counterplan course critical debate decision maker determine dollars economic efficiency empiricist environment example extrasensory perception fact feasible goals Hence holism human values humanist idea idle industrial firm information system labor labor unions larger system level of aspiration look management scientist mathematical matrix means measure of performance ment obvious occur operation Operations Research organization philosophy planning function point of view political port possible proach prob problems product-line profit programs question real objectives relevant ship simply simulation social specific stage subprogram subsystem system scientists systems approach SYSTEMS THINKING things thinking tion total system understand United various kinds whole system