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Strategic planning: systems thinking in practice
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References

Part 1
Caulkin, S. (2006) ‘Why things fell apart for joined-up thinking’, The Observer, 26 February.
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Part 2
Cabinet Office (2004) Systems Thinking in Practice, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit [Online]. Available at http://interactive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ strategy/ survivalguide/ skills/ s_systems.htm (Accessed July 2009).
Cohen, L. (1993) Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, New York, Pantheon Books.
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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 Unpublished discussion paper containing notes by Morris, D. about the Anglia Schumacher Conference in 2003.