How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to understand the whole system?


Challenge to Reason (1968), p. 2; cited in '" C. West Churchman — 75 years" by Werner Ulrich, in Systems Practice (December 1988), Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 341-350

C. West Churchman Quotes

How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to...

How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to...

How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to...

How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to...