October 22, 2010
Review of “Learning for Action” by Peter Checkland (SSM)
“Learning for Action” does exactly what it says on the tin. It clearly and straightforwardly meets the claim of its subtitle – “A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students”. In the book the authors define SSM as “an action orientated process of inquiry into problematical situations in