What is this thing called the theory of constraints? -- What is this thing called lean manufacturing? -- What is this thing called six sigma -- How to integrate lean, six sigma, and the theory of constraints -- A better way to measure a system's success -- Toc's distribution and replenish model...

Forward / by Fred Voskoboynikov -- The concept of self-regulation in the studies of human activity -- Applied and systemic-structural activity theories / Gregory Bedny, Inna Bedny and Waldemar Karwowski -- Assessing the probability of decision-making outcomes in task analysis / Gregory Bedny and...

A history of creativity -- Socio-cultural creativity -- Other systems ideas to creativity -- Creativity in knowledge ecologies -- Practising creativity : a self-ethnography -- Governing creativity -- Developing ethics for a creative living.