Managing Complex Tasks with Systems Thinking by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

Managing Complex Tasks with Systems Thinking by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex tasks. Utilizing systems thinking approach, this book presents innovative and insightful solutions to various managerial issues in various domains including agriculture, education, climate change, digital transformation, health care, supply chains, and sustainability. Practical insights and operational causal models are systematically presented. The key features of the didactic approach of this book are core knowledge, numerous tables and figures throughout the text, system archetypes, and causal loop models.

This book serves as a text for college and university courses on Systems Thinking for Management Decision Making in Complex Tasks. Researchers use the developed “causal models” to design and evaluate various decision-aiding technologies. It is used as a source of practical information for a broad community of decision-makers, researchers, and practitioners concerned with the issue of improving human performance in complex organizational tasks.

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah is a professor of decision sciences at York University, Toronto Canada. Dr. Hassan, although a citizen of Canada, is truly a global citizen. He has received education from Asia (Pakistan and Singapore), Europe (Norway), and North America (USA). Teaching and Learning is his passion. Hassan is an active researcher in decision sciences and energy policy area. He has authored over 80 refereed publications including eight books which are adopted by many schools in the world. Hassan is also an appointed member of the Program Advisory and Editorial Board of Springer Complexity, USA. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Complexity in Applied Science and Technology. Hassan loves traveling and the exploration of various cultures across the globe. He has been to 133 countries: part business and part pleasure. Hassan is also a director of the board of Swiss Federation of Private Business Schools, Switzerland. Hassan has been honored as a State Guest of Pakistan in 2016 and 2017.