Course : T306_1 Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach (2000)
Categories: Education • Systems Thinking
Tags: complexity • course • education • open university • systems thinking • university
Publisher: The Open University
Author(s): —Unknown—
Published: 2000 • Delivery Format: Online (Internet)
Summary
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Time: 20 hours
Level: Advanced
From The Open University:
Do you need to change the way you think when faced with a complex situation? This unit examines how systemic thinking and practice enables you to cope with the connections between things, events and ideas. By taking a broader perspective complexity becomes manageable and it is easier to accept that gaps in knowledge can be acceptable.
Content / Structure
Introduction Learning OutcomesActivity Answers References Acknowledgements External Assessor
- 1 Managing Complex Systems
- 1.1 Thinking About Expectations
- 2 Preparing to Tackle This Unit
- 2.1 the Nature of Systems Thinking and Systems Practice
- 2.2 Taking Responsibility for Your Own Learning
- 2.3 Appreciating Epistemological Issues
- 3 Understanding Systems Approaches to Managing Complexity
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Making Sense of the Metaphor
- 4 Systems Practice – Unpacking the Juggler Metaphor
- 5 Being a Systems Practitioner
- 5.1 the State of ‘Being’
- 5.2 Being Aware of the Constraints and Possibilities of the Observer
- 5.3 Appreciating Your Basis for Understanding
- 5.4 Experience – Making Distinctions Based on a Tradition and Constructing a History
- 5.5 Distinctions About Systems Practice
- 5.6 Learning and Effective Action
- 5.7 Being Ethical
- 5.8 Reviewing Some Implications for Systems Practice
- 6 Engaging With Complexity
- 6.1 Articulating Your Appreciation of Complexity
- 6.2 Experiencing Complexity As Mess or Difficulty
- 6.3 Where Is the Complexity and What Is It?
- 6.4 Choosing to Distinguish Between Complex Situations and Complex Systems
- 6.5 Appreciating Some Implications for Practice
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