"What is ‘Systems’?
The concept of ‘system’ embodies the notion of a collection of elements connected together to form a whole.
Systems thinking uses this concept to help understand the world. Central to the approach are the ideas of emergence and hierarchy, and communication and control.
Systems practice employs systems ideas to design and manage complex processes and artefacts for the benefit of individuals, organisations and society.
Why is ‘Systems’ useful?
Conventional scientific method seeks to reduce its object of inquiry into elementary parts. This mode of investigation runs into difficulties when faced with highly complex, real-world problems set in social context.
Systems thinking complements scientific method by dealing with such complexities. It has been successfully applied in engineering, the information and decision sciences, management and the human and social sciences.
Why join the UKSS?
The benefits of membership include receipt of the publication, Systemist, reduced rates for Society workshops and conferences, and the possibility of reduced subscriptions to other journals and international ‘systems’ bodies to which the UKSS is affiliated.
Through Systemist, its workshops and conferences the Society provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experience, news and views in the systems community in the UK and abroad. It aims to maintain friendly and informal relationships amongst its members and to foster an environment in which they will find it very easy to conduct intellectually critical, emotionally accommodating and fruitful debates.
If you are interested in ‘systems’ the society needs you and you need the Society.
The UKSS constitution is documented in the UKSS Articles of Association.
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