TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating modes of systems thinking into strategic planning education and practice: the thinking person's institute approach
AU - Andersen, D.F.
AU - Bryson, J.
AU - Richardson, George P.
AU - Ackermann, F.
AU - Eden, C.
AU - Finn, C.B.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Working periodically between 1995 and 2005, a team of scholar-practitioners involved in related streams of strategic management and systems thinking developed a series of conceptual maps that attempted to integrate ideas from these theoretical and practical fields. Whimsicially dubbed the Thinking Persons' Institute Worldview, these maps provided the basis for an integrated approach that has been used over the past five years to improve teaching and practical interventions in both areas. This paper reports on successful efforts to teach the TPI worldview to classes of students at the University at Albany, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Strathclyde, although the main emphasis is on a one-week seminar at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. The paper concludes with an evaluation of these experiences.
AB - Working periodically between 1995 and 2005, a team of scholar-practitioners involved in related streams of strategic management and systems thinking developed a series of conceptual maps that attempted to integrate ideas from these theoretical and practical fields. Whimsicially dubbed the Thinking Persons' Institute Worldview, these maps provided the basis for an integrated approach that has been used over the past five years to improve teaching and practical interventions in both areas. This paper reports on successful efforts to teach the TPI worldview to classes of students at the University at Albany, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Strathclyde, although the main emphasis is on a one-week seminar at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. The paper concludes with an evaluation of these experiences.
KW - strategic management
KW - organisational learning
KW - learning organisation
KW - systems theory
UR - http://www.albany.edu/~gpr/JPAE06.pdf
M3 - Article
VL - 12
SP - 265
EP - 293
JO - Journal of Public Affairs Education
JF - Journal of Public Affairs Education
SN - 1523-6803
IS - 3
ER -