See how systems thinking can make a difference for you by watching our selection of videos.

What can we learn from the way business is done in Asian cultures? The dominant management philosophy in the Asia-Pacific region is a Chinese one, emphasising Confucian values, the family and respect for authority. Does the enduring success of this approach have important lessons for us in the West, or is this management style increasingly redundant, as economies and companies internationalise and mature? This album visits several companies in Asia to explore the relationship between value systems and business management. This material forms part of The Open University course B822 Creativity, innovation and change.

How can systems practice help you to avoid falling into common business traps?

The weakness with even the best run systems is they require fallible people to make them work.

How did the government set about balancing the needs of fish and people?

Systems thinking can help give some soft answers to hard questions

What does the construction of the Docklands Light Railway demonstrate about successful system practice?

Success in a production line environment is down to coping with queues.

What do we actually mean by a system? A group of objects with their own boundaries and biases.