Programme Details
Strategic planning: systems thinking in practice
By The Open University
About the programme
Strategic planning: systems thinking in practice is a free, two-part course introducing core ideas of systems thinking in practice for managing and improving complex situations. The ideas correspond with three core activities of, firstly, understanding inter-relationships, secondly, engaging with multiple perspectives, and thirdly, reflecting on boundary judgements.
The two parts of the course complement each other by way of introducing elements of systems thinking in practice; with Part 1 focusing more on the ‘thinking’ and Part 2 veering more towards the ‘practice’.
This course provides a detailed account for five key systems approaches.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TU811 Thinking strategically: systems tools for managing change