id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9285 System - Wikipedia .html text/html 3596 461 54 In 1945 he introduced models, principles, and laws that apply to generalized systems or their subclasses, irrespective of their particular kind, the nature of their component elements, and the relation or 'forces' between them.[5] Important distinctions have also been made[15] between hard systems – technical in nature and amenable to methods such as systems engineering, operations research, and quantitative systems analysis – and soft systems that involve people and organisations, commonly associated with concepts developed by Peter Checkland and Brian Wilson through Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) involving methods such as action research and emphasis of participatory designs. Systems modeling is generally a basic principle in engineering and in social sciences. In management science, operations research and organizational development (OD), human organizations are viewed as systems (conceptual systems) of interacting components such as subsystems or system aggregates, which are carriers of numerous complex business processes (organizational behaviors) and organizational structures. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9285.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9285.txt