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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...Systems Thinking (ST) offers a critical framework through which to think about issues with many moving parts. The concept of a wicked problem is used to refer to complex situations that give rise to issues of concern. Global issues have all the characteristics of wicked problems. Such characteristics are that the problems involve a wide and diverse range of actors who are...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...system thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand environmental management and organisations...It is believed that environmental management requires action at all levels and by organisations of all types and sizes. However it is not always clear what we mean by environmental management and the role that organisations do and could play. This free...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...Systems thinking and practice: Diagramming from which much of the diagramming source material for this unit was derived. T552 is a diagramming pack which supported modules in the undergraduate Systems Diploma and Systems Residential School and supports modules in the postgraduate Systems Thinking in Practice qualifications. Further details of this ......
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...system to. reduce ethnic conflict); think of and map four or five bounded sub-system components key to the success of your chosen SoI; if you have more then five components, examine how some might be grouped together and present these on your map as sub-systems of sub-systems (or sub-sub-systems);...Diagramming for development 1: Bounding realities:......
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...systems thinking about how the different parts of energy fit together, rather than thinking, ‘Here’s one technology, we’ll plug it in and that will provide all the solutions.’ So getting stability on the grid is a mixture of storage, it’s demand side response, getting the right kind of signals to build plant in the right places and it’s systems, thinking about...
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Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...Systems Thinking Value creation comes from understanding how an organisation is a part of broader inter-dependant systems that it must work within and effectively respond to. Real Options Theory Value creation comes from understanding the various short- and long-term options an organisation can pursue and then forming flexible strategies to maximise these possibilities....
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...Systems Thinking in Housing, 2008). Most callers were council tenants who were dealing with necessary repairs to their properties. The team grouped these calls around main themes, listed below. Use the table to click whether you see the demand as ‘true’ demand or ‘failure demand’. Count up what percentage of the total you see as failure demand. Then look at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...systems thinking, design thinking, theory of constraints and so on as figurative tools in the toolbox, suited to your context. Every organisation is unique and is a complex adaptive system; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Table 1 summarises the types of organisational problem these patterns can assist with. (Italic text in the third column refers to topics...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs