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Cyborgs and cybernetics Featuring: video,audio, Copyrighted ImageUsed with permission

By The iTunes U team (The Open University)

18 February 2010

What are cyborgs? Would a cyborg future deliver positive human advances or a Hollywood-style nightmare in which human beings have become a sub-species? Could we one day download our minds?  Read more :Cyborgs and cybernetics

Systemic InquiryEurofighter Typhoon

By Dr Simon Bell (The Open University)

19 October 2005

Simon Bell, senior lecturer at the Open University, looks at why this multi-national design and construction project is a textbook case in Systems Thinking and...  Read more : Systemic Inquiry

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What is a system? Boundaries and Biases Featuring: video, OU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

What do we actually mean by a system? A group of objects with their own boundaries and biases.  Read more : What is a system? Boundaries and Biases

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Systems explained by Russell Ackoff Featuring: audio, OU

By Russell Ackoff (Guest)

18 May 2005

Russell Ackoff talks about his career, systems thinking and operational research.  Read more : Systems explained by Russell Ackoff

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EmergenceOpen2 team

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

Tony Wright explains emergence and emerging properties.  Read more : Emergence

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Systems thinking: a select glossaryOU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

Get to grips with the terms which drive systems thinking.  Read more : Systems thinking: a select glossary

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Systems in action: Trading on uncertainty Featuring: video, OU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

Systems can cope with changes of all sorts, as Manpower demonstrated.  Read more : Systems in action: Trading on uncertainty

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Systems in action: Modelling a muddle Featuring: video, OU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

How did the government set about balancing the needs of fish and people?  Read more : Systems in action: Modelling a muddle

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Systems in action: Electrolux Featuring: video, OU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

How did one company cope with falling profits and a takeover? What can we learn from Electrolux?  Read more : Systems in action: Electrolux

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Systems in action: Coping with queues Featuring: video, OU

By The Systems Practice team (The Open University)

18 May 2005

Success in a production line environment is down to coping with queues.  Read more : Systems in action: Coping with queues

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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