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Strategic planning: systems thinking in practice
Strategic planning: systems thinking in practice

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Martin Reynolds.

This free course is adapted from a former Open University course Thinking strategically: systems tools for managing change (TU811).

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The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Part 1

1. Extract from: Cohen, L. (1993) Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, New York, Pantheon Books. © Leonard Cohen (1993).

Activity 1, Activity 5: Activity 7: from: Reynolds, M. and Holwell, S. (2010) ‘Introducing systems approaches’, in: Reynolds, M. and Holwell, S. (eds) Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide, London, Springer, pp. 1–23. © The Open University 2010.

Box 1, Box 2: Open Systems Group (2004) Systems practice: a distinctive competence with the Open University. Unpublished discussion paper containing notes by Morris, D. about the Anglia Schumacher Conference in 2003.

Box 3: extract adapted from: Chakravarty, M. (2005) The 10 schools of strategic planning [Online]. Available at http://www.rediff.com/ getahead/ 2005/ sep/ 01strategy.htm

Part 2

Activities 1, 7: Chapter 1 from M. Reynolds and S. Holwell (eds.), Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-809-4_1, © The Open University 2010. Published in Association with Springer-Verlag London Limited.

Activities 2, 4,7: from Chapter 7: M. Reynolds and S. Holwell (eds.), Systems Approaches to Managing Change:A Practical Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-809-4_7, © The Open University 2010. Published in Association with Springer-Verlag London Limited.

Box 1: extract from: Box 4: Cabinet Office (2004) Systems Thinking in Practice, [online], Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, http://interactive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/survivalguide/skills/systems.htm49 © Crown Copyright 2004.

4. Extract from: Cohen, L. (1993) Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, New York, Pantheon Books. © Leonard Cohen (1993).

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