| Article ID: | iaor1993411 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 321 |
| End Page Number: | 332 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1992 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Mingers J., Taylor S. |
| Keywords: | soft systems |
This paper reports the results of a survey intended to discover the extent to which Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is used in practice. Some 300 questionnaires were sent to people who had had some exposure to SSM and, surprisingly, nearly half were returned. The majority described in detail their uses of SSM and most felt that it had been successful. This paper describes the overall quantitative results from the survey as well as presenting a qualitative analysis of the experiences of using SSM.