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C West Churchman devoted his life to a new philosophy of knowledge. He called it “systems thinking or the systems approach”. I had the privilege to be part of this work from 1973 when I first was advised to meet with him. There are many good stories about the start of this new philosophy of knowledge, including writings of Churchman himself. In this text I am not going to repeat those stories. Instead, the main focus is to discuss some results and implications when we start to use this new philosophy of knowledge in practice.
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Forsgren, O. (2006). Churchmanian Co-design — Basic Ideas and Application Examples. In: Nilsson, A.G., Gustas, R., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W.G., Wrycza, S., Zupančič, J. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36402-5_4
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