Systems thinking learning for management education: what are our ideas and how are we going about it in Seville?

Abstract

A great number of System Dynamicists coincide in our belief that the methods and tools presently used in virtually all management education centres insufficient to cope with an ever more complex reality. For some years now there has been a significant movement within our field which aims to provide alternative ways and tools which will serve to fill the existing gap. Working along these lines we created a work group and started, withn the EC Comett framework. In a period when the time avaliable to managers is scarce, and increasing of complexity makes the need for learning more critical, open learning must play an important role. To this end we must consider creating tools which will allow the user to have as much access as possible to reflection on causes, to decision-making based on causes ad not on symptoms, in short to systemic thought.