Overview

Within this Systems Thinking in Practice Postgrad.Cert from The Open University UK will change how you think about situations. It will teach you to think holistically and understand stakeholders’ roles while considering the interconnectedness of the problem’s components. You’ll discover how to relate the ideas of systems thinkers to your practice and learn to recognise that each person brings a perspective.

Key facts:

Deepens your understanding of the nature of complex and messy problem situations and how they can be tackled
Helps you develop new ways of thinking about and approaching situations that cross multiple discipline and skill boundaries
Provides skills to think more holistically and work more collaboratively to avoid systemic failures.

Career opportunities:

The knowledge and skills developed through this postgraduate certificate course will provide benefits in a wide variety of economic sectors to you as well as to your employers or other organisations.

Applications exist in any organisation where complex processes exist and where a change is required, including, for example, health services, environmental and development management, manufacturing and IT.

Managers at all levels will find the ability to approach complex problems from a systems perspective to be a useful addition to their management and leadership skills portfolio. If you are self-employed you may also find the knowledge developed enables you to take a more objective and innovative view of the systems you have already created and how to change these for the future.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Making strategy with systems thinking in practice
Managing change with systems thinking in practice
Sustainable creative management
Strategic capabilities for technological innovation
Technology innovation management
Managing for sustainability

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Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 12 months
- Flexible

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-11-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-10-03 00:00:00
Starting 2026-05-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-04-10 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Software Engineering View 22 other Masters in Software Engineering in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

To start this programme, you should normally hold a UK bachelors degree, or equivalent. It may be possible to demonstrate your ability to study at postgraduate level by successfully completing a module and linking your studies to the programme at a later date.
Your spoken and written English must be of an adequate standard for postgraduate study. If English is not your first language, we recommend that you will need a minimum overall score of 6 and minimum score of 5.5 in each of the four components: reading, writing, speaking and listening under the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

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Tuition Fee

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International

4650 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 4650 GBP for the full programme during 12 months.
National

3320 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 3320 GBP for the full programme during 12 months.

Funding

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