Systems thinking for civil servants
The Government Office for Science's introduction to systems thinking for complex public sector problems, bringing together guidance, tools and case studies.
You can find here
- an introduction to systems thinking
- an introductory toolkit
- the civil servant's systems thinking journey
- case studies
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