Professor Peter Checkland
MA Oxford, Hon. DSc City, Hon. Dr of Open University, Hon. DSc Erasmus University
Professor of Systems (Emeritus)
Department
Management Science
Organisational Roles
Editorial Board: European Journal of Information Systems Editorial Board: International Journal of Information Management Editorial Board: International Journal of General Systems Editorial Board: Systems Practice Editorial Board: Systems Research
Teaching
Postgraduate MSc in Information Management, full-time MBA Managing Complexity. Post-Experience: Executive MBA. Other Teaching Competence: Soft Systems Methodology SSM in Information Systems creation
Research Interests
Systems thinking and its relation to real-world problem solving, especially in relation to the creation of information systems.
Research Grants
Information provision in the NHS (including an awarded contract under the Contracts and Competition Initiative - £65,000)
Profile
Recipient of the 'Most Distinguished and Outstanding Contributor' Award of the British Computer Society Methodologies Group, 1994 Recipient of the Gold Model of the UK Systems Society for 'Outstanding Contribution to Systems Thinking', 1997 Recipient of a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, 1998-2000.
View all publications (17)
Journal/Serial (6)
Book (4)
Chapter in Book (6)
Conference (1)
Selected Publications
- Checkland PB, 2006, 'Reply to Eden and Ackermann: Any future for problem structuring methods?', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 57(7), pp 769-771
- Checkland PB and Winter MC, 2006, 'Process and content: two ways of using SSM', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 57(12), pp 1435-1441
- Checkland PB and Poulter J, 2006, Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its Use, for Practitioners, Teachers and Students, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, ISBN: 0-470-02554-9
- Checkland PB and Holwell SE, 2006, 'Data, capta, information and knowledge', in Introducing Information Management: the business approach, (eds) Hinton M, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp 47-55, ISBN: 0-7506-6668-4
- Checkland PB and Holwell SE, 2006, 'The processes which information systems support', in Introducing Information Management: the business approach, (eds) Hinton M, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp 63-74, ISBN: 0-7506-6668-4
- Checkland PB, 2004, 'The need for 'passionate'(not 'dispassionate') research in management', Systemist, vol 26(2), pp 142-149
- Checkland PB and Holwell SE, 2004, ''Classic OR' and 'Soft OR' - an asymmetric complementarity', in Systems Modelling: Theory and Practice, (eds) Pidd M, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, ISBN: 0-470-86731-0
- Winter MC and Checkland PB, 2003, 'Soft systems: a fresh perspective for project management', Civil Engineering, vol 156(4), pp 187-192
- Checkland PB and Winter MC, 2000, 'The relevance of soft systems thinking', Human Resource Development International, vol 3(3), pp 411-417
- Checkland PB, 1999, Soft Systems Methodology in Action, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, ISBN: 0-471-98605-4
