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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...thinking and mores is extremely risky and difficult. The use of systems engineering and an holistic approach can help reduce risk and difficulty in all these types of change and becomes more applicable and important with the degree of novelty being faced. Novelty is also linked to the degree of knowledge in a given situation and is something you will consider later in...
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...Systems thinking encourages us to think of a service microsystem as something that: needs to achieve certain overall goals in response to demands placed on it by a wider ‘environment’ of larger organisations receives resources from this wider environment and is subject to some external constraints as to how it can use these resources has a degree of autonomy as to how...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...Systems thinking and practice and Systems diagramming or, if you want to learn them in an environmental context, the courses on Understanding the environment: a systems approach and Understanding the environment: problems with the way we think. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T319 Environmental management 2...Organisations, ......
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...system Think of Lego bricks and the much larger Duplo bricks and consider building one pyramid out of Lego and one out of Duplo. It will take considerably longer to make the pyramid out of Lego (lower build rate) but the feature precision will be considerably higher (Figure 24). [Described image] Figure 24 (a) Duplo pyramid with large bricks, (b) Lego pyramid with small...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...think of. But design is also the least noticeable (and often most important) services and systems. This course will introduce you to some characteristics and drivers for design, some of which you might not have come across before, and start to explore how data can be used to inform design decisions. This free course, An introduction to design engineering, looks at the way...
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...thinking together as well as systems for sharing information are technically easy to access and contribute to, and create real dialogue about cutting edge issues. This seems to encapsulate many of the issues raised above. So, let’s explore this a bit further. Activity 2 Whose community? Timing: 45 minutes Read Akinyemi, A., Rembe, S., Shumba, J. and Adewumi, T. (2019)...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...system’ in a different way from the general sense, to think in terms of systems. For now, you should note that it was possible to focus on some different systems, boundaries and environments in the different definitions, even though they started with the same word. Consider these further examples of systems from Sir Geoffrey Vickers, who was ......
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...systems. Think about getting dressed in the morning. Mom is trying to get your shoe on. You’re playing with the Cheerio. Your mom takes a Cheerio away because it’s three days old. She puts your other shoe on in an attempt to get you dressed. The dog runs through. Everybody’s distracted for a moment. What does the naming of objects in that look like? It looks like a...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs