[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit

Williams & Hummelbrunner, 2010, Stanford University Press

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Systems-evaluation book that incorporates DSRP theory.

## What they found (results)

The tools are offered as options to combine creatively rather than recipes to follow; no single systems method fits every messy situation.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A practitioner's field guide to systems methods — each chapter presents a distinct approach for describing, analyzing, learning about, or intervening in complex situations, drawn from across the systems thinking traditions.

## Abstract

Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. [Remainder of the publisher description was returned only in paraphrase: the work functions as a field guide where each chapter presents a distinct method for describing, analyzing, learning about, or addressing challenges and problems; it covers a broad range of approaches from multiple systems thinking domains; the introduction provides systems thinking context and origins, while part introductions offer background on selected methods; the tools are presented as options to combine creatively rather than rigid recipes.]

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/resources/guide/systems_concepts_in_action)