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O ritmo acelerado de mudanças na maior parte dos setores da economia mundial vem sendo uma grande fonte de ansiedade para executivos, organizações e nações inteiras. As competências, habilidades e conhecimentos que contribuem para que uma empresa ...

A wide range of Systems teaching and research has taken place within the Open University over the last quarter of a century. This has covered the spectrum from “hard” to “soft” and has encompassed a rich variety of domains including food production, cooperatives and the social economy, ...

About the book: Leadership has proved a tricky beast to pin down and the subject has been approached from a variety of perspectives over the years. The beauty of this textbook lies in its role as an illustrative guide though the wilds of an elusive discipline. This second edition of ...

About the book: Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. The four-volume set includes the most influential theoretical papers, as well as applications in domains as diverse as global environmental modelling, ...

Multi-agency partnership working is becoming increasingly prevalent, particularly within and between the public and voluntary sectors. However, it is widely accepted that while this method of working brings the prospect of benefits, it also has the potential to be problematic. This ...

Despite people's best efforts information systems are particularly prone to failure. Some systems never materialize, others appear late and/or over budget and those that are implemented often fail to deliver the promised levels of performance. The consequences of these failures ...

Most major failures arise from highly complex human activity systems containing large numbers of interconnected subsystems and components. It is for this reason that systems concepts, techniques and methods have gained widespread acceptance as useful tools in the analysis and ...

The Open University's `New Directions' programme deliberately created a `chaotic' space for random communication across organizational boundariesÐso that the organization can begin to learn as a whole and respond faster to change. New Directions began as a series of ...

In 1993 the author applied aspects of the formal system model to gain an under-standing of the contemporary issues facing UK Higher Education and its potential for failure. In this paper that analysis is utilised to provide a perspective and a comment-ary on aspects of the ...

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The intent of all planning frameworks is to transform complex systems into some-thing that is simplified so that it can become comprehensible to many and therefore becomes something that can be managed. In an effort to contribute to the many sim-plifications, we offer the ...