{"id":12834,"date":"2016-09-13T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf101\/?page_id=12834"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:49:50","slug":"systems-thinking-and-a-unifying-framework-for-strategic-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf101\/learning-pathways\/understanding-systems\/systems-thinking-and-a-unifying-framework-for-strategic-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems thinking and a unifying framework for strategic sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<p>Strategy is about focusing on a desired outcome, and pursuing an approach that is calculated to produce it.  Most organisations use strategic planning to frame a series of goals to work towards that will create their future.  Traditionally, strategic planning has taken a narrow approach towards defining the desired success, at either an industry level or the company level.  This approach has ignored the fact that companies and, indeed, entire industries are part of bigger systems that make up our society and the interwoven ecological systems that make up the biosphere.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf101\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>WEnotes activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Read this short paper <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsd2012.org\/content\/documents\/319TNS_InputsforDraft%20Zero_Rio20_1Nov2011.pdf\">Proposing a Unifying Framework for Sustainable Development<\/a>  that was presented by The Natural Step Global Network to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.\n<\/li>\n<li> Consider the following question and note down your thoughts in WEnotes:\n<ul>\n<li> In what ways do you think the Five Level Framework encourage greater collaboration and work more effectively towards the shared goal of creating a sustainable future?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><div><p>You must be logged in to post to WEnotes.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.030 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.068 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 91\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 812\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 2809\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1282\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:175148-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20160913224947 and revision id 999750\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/csf101\/learning-pathways\/understanding-systems\/using-a-systems-approach-to-foster-sustainability\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/csf101\/learning-pathways\/understanding-systems\/applying-the-five-level-framework-to-smaller-systems\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy is about focusing on a desired outcome, and pursuing an approach that is calculated to produce it. 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