System Thinking Practice

The current coronavirus pandemic has set in motion a trend of ‘Work From Home’ with many companies and even employees opting for it permanently. Hence, there is a strong need of a user friendly and active software/system and studies in this subject furnish insights about the effective measures to build such a system. Many universities are offering Master’s degree program.

Cranfield University offers an MSc in System Thinking Practice, which helps in enhancing “knowledge and application of systems thinking to support organisational viability and the development of appropriate governance and decision making processes for organisations.” (https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/taught/systems-thinking-practice) University of Exeter runs an MSc in Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, which enhances “skills in a variety of key areas, including: cross-disciplinary problem solving; evidence-based practice; stakeholder analysis methods; stakeholder engagement, interventions, and management; and applied soft systems theory.” (https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/degreeapprenticeships/programmes/systemsthinkingpractitioner/#careers). The University of Strathclyde Glasgow’s MSc in Systems Engineering Management imparts learning in “systems decomposition and integration, management of complexity and uncertainty within engineering, business and socio-technical systems, processes for managing the lifecycle of systems, verification and validation.” (https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/systemsengineeringmanagement/) The London School of Economics and Political Science offers an MSc in Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation, which focuses on the “development and management of information systems with the critical study of emerging domains of digital innovation, such as social networking, crowdsourcing platform and ecosystems, big data analytics and AI.” (https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/degree-programmes-2022/MSc-Management-Information-Systems-and-Digital-Innovation)

University of Concordia offers has an MA in Human Systems Intervention, which gives “understanding of how individuals, teams and systems function and will apply that knowledge to interventions for third-party organisations.” (https://www.concordia.ca/academics/graduate/human-systems-intervention.html) MIT has Master’s program in System Design & Management (SDM), which helps early and mid-career professionals “to understand the technical, managerial, and societal components of large-scale, complex challenges.” (https://sdm.mit.edu/sdm-program/master-of-science-in-systems-design-management/) Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a Master’s in Systems Modeling, which strengthens “foundation in system dynamics and in the underpinnings of how mathematical modeling is used in other disciplines.” (https://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/masters-systems-modeling) Ivey Business School offers an MSc in System Thinking focuses on “the influence of specific recent disruptions (e.g., artificial intelligence, climate change, human tracking, public health crises, migration, water and food scarcity, etc.) and offer tools that will help students better manage a business environment that has become increasingly volatile.” (https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/msc/courses/systems-thinking/)

At The University of Vermont’s MS in Complex Systems and Data Science, you can learn “industry standard methods of data acquisition, storage, manipulation, and curation; visualization techniques, with a focus on building high quality web-based applications; finding complex patterns and correlations” (https://catalogue.uvm.edu/graduate/complexsystemsdatascience/complexsystemsdatasciencems/)

The University of Sydney has a Master of Complex Systems which provides “expertise to model, analyse and design resilient technological, socioeconomic and socioecological systems, as well as develop strategies for crisis forecasting and management.”

(https://www.sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/pc/master-of-complex-systems0.html)