Peter Checkland Quote

Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are forced to reduce it to some separate areas which we can examine separately'...


p. 60 cited in: Frederik Pretorius (2008) Project Finance for Constructions and Infrastructure. p. 36 - Systems thinking, systems practice: includes a 30-year retrospective, 1999


Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are...

Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are...

Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are...

Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are...