Soft Systems methodologies provide a means by which systems researchers can
understand and work with complex systems. However they rarely attempt to model the
cognitive processes that often occur within their models. Artificial Intelligence researchers,
on the other hand, do try to develop models of cognitive processes. This paper examines the
possibility of combining the two approaches in such a manner as to maintain the strengths of
each. To do so it combines Checkland and Holwell's POM (Processes for Organisational …