Description

Learn how to employ systems thinking to disentangle complexities, recognize and interpret patterns and diagnose problems. Understand concepts such as interconnectedness, synthesis, and emergence and use this understanding to foresee risks and build collaborative teams. Learn systems mapping, causality, and feedback loops to be able to assess culture more accurately, support good group decision-making, and bolster professional skepticism. Systems thinking will help you develop deeper insights into complex problems and understand how changes in policies, procedures and controls affect behavior.

Target Audience

Designed for analysts, auditors, attorneys, CPAs, governance and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers and other decision-makers interested in understanding systems thinking

Course Objectives

• Identify three strategies of system mapping
• Recognize two foresight strategies
• Determine two approaches for recognizing emerging patterns

Subjects

• Pattern recognition and interconnectedness
• Foresight
• Emergence
• Complexity
• System mapping