The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency

Ison, Ray,Straw, Ed

ISBN 10: 1138493996 / ISBN 13: 9781138493995

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

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This persuasive, lively book shows how systems thinking can be harnessed for profound, complex change and offers 21 principles for systemic governance. Inspiring reading for students of systems thinking, specialists in change management or public administration, activists for whole system change and decision makers.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Ray Ison is Professor of Systems at the UK Open University (OU). As part of ASTiP (Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group) he is responsible with colleagues for managing a post-graduate program in Systems Thinking in Practice. He has held a number of leadership posts within the international Systems and Cybernetics community including Presidencies of the IFSR (International Federation for Systems Research) and ISSS (International Society for the Systems Sciences). His research field is systems praxeology, institutional innovation and systemic governance.

Ed Straw is a visiting fellow at the OU's ASTiP group. He has seen government from every angle: as a citizen and consumer, adviser to several government ministers, Chair of Demos and Relate and as a specialist on government task forces. He was a consultant on both the Conservative and Labour government's public sector reforms, and a 'moderniser' for the UK Labour party. As a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) and Coopers & Lybrand, he was a global and UK board director.

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Titel: The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: ...
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good