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Strategic assumptions sufacing and testing (SAST) is a method for approaching ill-structured problems. It can be applied as a dialectical approach to policy and planning.

The method originated through the collaboration between Richard O. Mason and Ian Mitroff.

Four stages in the method include [1]:

  1. Assumption specification
  2. Dialectic phase
  3. Assumption integration phase
  4. Composite strategy creation

Notes

  1. ^ Mitroff, I. I., and J. R. Emshoff. 1979. “On Strategic Assumption-making: A Dialectical Approach to Policy and Planning.” Academy of Management Review: 1–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/257398


References

W.H. ElMaraghy, J.Gao, "A System Modeling Framework for Collaborative Engineering", The 15th International CIRP Design Seminar-2005

Mitroff, I. I., and J. R. Emshoff. 1979. “On Strategic Assumption-making: A Dialectical Approach to Policy and Planning.” Academy of Management Review: 1–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/257398

Mason, R.O., and Mitroff, I.I., 1981; "Challenging Strategic Planning Assumptions:Theory,Cases and Techniques", NY, Wiley, ISBN 0471082198

Mitroff, Ian I., and Richard O. Mason. 1981. Creating a Dialectical Social Science: Concepts, Methods, and Models. D. Reidel. http://books.google.com/books?id=cKJ8AAAAIAAJ.

Mason, Richard O., and Ian I. Mitroff. 1981. Challenging Strategic Planning Assumptions: Theory, Cases, and Techniques. Wiley. http://books.google.com/books?id=EmaQAAAAIAAJ.

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