رویکردهای سیستم به توسعه اقتصادی برای مردم بومی: مطالعه مورد از بومیان نونگار استرالیا

This paper illustrates a case study in the application of systems approaches to securing economic development for a specific group of indigenous people in Australia. The case study combines Field Anomaly Relaxation (FAR) with Effects-Based Operations (EBO) planning to realise more purposeful actions and endeavours in pursuit of economic development. The approach is a hybrid of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Rhyne’s FAR and an advancement of the EBO process emerging from within national security domains. The paper focuses primarily on the use of FAR as a means of understanding an economic development problem space within a present and future orientation, with minor reference to EBO planning as a method of bringing about purposeful change within a combined solution and design space. The paper seeks to demonstrate the utility of ‘soft’ approaches, such as FAR, in the exploration of economic undevelopment and how more purposeful corrective actions can result if they are harnessed to a deepened understanding of the problem space.

This paper has provided a case study of using a systems approach to explore economic development for disadvantaged indigenous communities. It has demonstrated that the application of SSM, employing a hybrid of Checkland’s SSM and Rhyne’s FAR, along with an effects-based approach can provide for detailed expression of the problem space, exploration of the solution space and construction of purposeful actions within the design space. The plan resulting from this work was awarded an Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Industry Community Collaboration in 2003.