Systems Thinking
Course
In London
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Course
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Level
Intermediate
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Location
London
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Class hours
7h
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Duration
1 Day
This one-day workshop introduces you to the benefits of using a systems thinking approach.
The course introduces the perspectives of holism, hierarchy, partitioning, life cycles and subjectivity.
It also looks at how to apply systems thinking tools such as systems dynamics and soft systems methodology.
The course is run by the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering within UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL).
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About this course
This course will help you be able to:
understand and discuss the properties of systems
classify systems against a range of criteria
understand and discuss the principles of systems thinking
apply a number of techniques to understand systems in a holistic way
This workshop is particularly relevant to anybody who is looking for new approaches to managing complexity in projects, organisations or businesses.
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Subjects
- Approach
- Systems
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Architecture
- Systems Engineering Management
- Systems Administration
- Systems thinking
- Systems thinking approach
- Hierarchy
- Partitioning
Course programme
How many systems have you used today since getting up? Have you travelled? Made phone calls or sent emails? What about banking, shopping or going to the doctor's?
We spend our lives interacting with all kinds of systems, which are often complex mixes of technology and people. How can we use them as effectively as possible?
We can start by understanding them better, though this is often easier said than done - which is where systems thinking approaches come in.
Instead of looking at the parts of the system each in isolation (a reductionist approach) systems thinking helps us understand behaviour emergent from component interactions.
Even in a simple system there can be a number of subtle cause-and-effects that we have to deal with if we want to change or improve things. Learning about systems thinking means learning about these behavioural properties and characteristics.
It gives you a framework to help make sense of complexity - to analyse the system, understand it better and to make changes that improve its effectiveness.
Systems Thinking