Friday, October 21, 2005
Instructor: Bill Harris; Founder, Facilitated Systems

Strategy is vitally important to the success of most companies.  This ELI workshop will help participants discover how to apply relatively new insights from the field of systems thinking to the challenge of strategic planning.

We'll start by forging a common understanding of strategy and its role in organizations.  We'll take a quick, broad view of systems thinking and then explore how one systems thinking approach can address strategic issues effectively.  Participants will practice this approach on problems of their own choosing.  We'll finish by discussing how this relates to other systems thinking approaches for strategic planning.

By the end of the day, participants will have an approach they can apply in their won organizations, and they'll have some idea of both its strengths and limitations.

Bill Harris founded Facilitated Systems in 1999 to help other organizations make sense of the puzzles they face, whether they involve complex business or organizational dynamics, tough internal collaboration issues, distributed workgroups, or complex messages.

Facilitated Systems' core expertise includes system dynamics and systems thinking, online and developmental facilitation, action learning and action research, process design and improvement, and writing.  Bill has been involved with system dynamics for over 18 years and has over 30 years of business experience.

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