Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports
There are two systems thinking that we should apply to the “food process plant” case; ‘Hard systems’ or ‘System Intervention Strategy (SIS)’ and ‘Soft System Methodology (SSM)’. e.g. use soft system ideas to structure analysis for the hard system applications. SSM seems to be very useful to projects that have many problems such as unclear objectives and conflicting stakeholder needs. There are many of these 'unstructured' systems trying to be defined and developed everyday. It is clear that a methodology such as Rapid Application Development would not be useful in these circumstances. SSM provides useful tools to help solve such projects. It seems that the stages in SSM can be easily adapted to the specific project being worked on.