Systems Thinking: Strategic Options for Development & Analysis

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to effectively apply Systems Thinking principles to a given situation.

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Face-to-face delivery

£1800 +VAT

4 days

Is this course for you?

Do you deal with complex, multifaceted situations? Do the problems you work on often have no single cause and no single solution? Systems Thinking and Strategic Options Development & Analysis (SODA) can help you shed an alternative light on the issues by viewing problems as part of a wider dynamic system. By taking this course, you will be encouraged to understand the influences behind that system to help you to discover novel solutions.

1. Overview of Systems Thinking & SODA, including situations of concern, rich pictures, project boundaries and stakeholders.

2. Semi-structured interviews and Cognitive Mapping

3. Analysis and Causal Maps

4. Presentations of projects

  • Define the principles of Systems Thinking and describe how Strategic Options Development & Analysis (SODA) can help R&D projects.
  • Outline how to correctly conduct semi-structured interviews in order to create an effective cognitive map.
  • Design an effective causal map for a given situation which applies Systems Thinking principles.

Managers/Business leaders

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