Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: King's Fund, Plamping, Diane, Pratt, Julian, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This book offers a radical way of thinking about organisations as living systems, and practical methods of engaging with complex social and organisational issues, which the authors call 'working whole systems'. The whole system approach they have developed involves working with many types of stakeholder. It always engages local people ...

Author:: King's Fund, Gordon, Pat, Harries, John, Plamping, Diane, and Fischer, Martin
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...

Author:: Fischer, Martin, Plamping, Diane, Harries, John, King's Fund, and Gordon, Pat
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper reconsiders the meaning and impact of projects, the most common device for spending development monies. They argue that projects can distort the priorities of the host organisation. There are four aspects to this problem: the disruption caused to an organisation by the existence of a project; the project ...

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