About this Presentation
This presentation is a reflection on 30 years of using TOC in academic research. I will illustrate 1. TOC’s versatility across a range of topics and research paradigms; 2. Complementary use of TOC alongside other methods.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
TOC can be effectively combined with other methods to leverage its efforts and gain more traction in areas unfamiliar to TOC.
Different methods provide different frames of thinking and can complement each other, addressing their respective weaknesses and providing a more comprehensive solution.
Using models as thinking aids can foster critical thinking and improve communication, making them crucial tools in problem-solving and decision-making processes.
Instructor(s)
Vicky Mabin
Vicky Mabin, PhD FORS is Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Business and Government. She has taught several hundred students about TOC and conducted and supervised many projects using TOC. Vicky led the first implementation of TOC in New Zealand in 1987, and has written over 200 journal articles, books, chapters, conference papers, teaching texts, and technical reports, many of which are on TOC. She is leading author of TOC TP articles, and co-author of The World of TOC (2000), bibliographical articles on TOC, and co-creator of the TOC research articles database.
Vicky served on the TOCICO Board of Directors from 2016–2019 and is a frequent presenter at TOCICO and Operations Research/Decision Sciences conferences. She has received top awards including Fellow of the ORS (UK), the ORSNZ’s premier award the Hans Daellenbach Prize for her contributions to the theory and application of OR, particularly TOC, and most recently the Griffiths Medal for the best paper in the last 2 years in the Health Systems journal.