Policy analysis and problem-solving for social systems: Toward understanding, monitoring, and managing complex real world problems - Hardcover

9788170362784: Policy analysis and problem-solving for social systems: Toward understanding, monitoring, and managing complex real world problems

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In this pathbreaking study, Rastogi presents a radical methodology for policy analysis and problem-solving for complex and ill-defined real world problems. The author's unique methodology consists of an interrelated set of specific steps and procedures. It unifies the analytic themes of explanation and understanding, monitoring and assessment, foresight and predictive inference, policy identification and problem solving.

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About the Author

P N Rastogi was professor at IIM Lucknow and IIT Kanpur. He has been a post-doctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Nuffield Fellow at the London School of Economics; National Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He is well-known for his work in the field of social and management cybernetics, computer simulation of systems, dynamics of conflict, rural development, societal systems, organizational design and development, management of productivity and technovation, technology policy, and policy analysis and problem-solving methodology for complex real-world problems.

He has developed numerous state-of-the-art course modules on management themes for both managers and engineers. He has authored Social and Management Cybernetics (1979); Intelligent Management Systems (1987); Productivity, Innovation, Management and Development (1988); Quality Circles (1990); Managing New Technology (1991); World Class Manufacturing (1992); Total Quality Management: Theory and Practise (1993); Policy Analysis for Complex and Unstructured Problems (1992); Managing Constant Change (2005) among others.