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Towards the Case for More Deliberate Strategic is

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“Systems thinking is traditionally practice driven where other disciplines are not”1. It is the purpose of this paper to deliver an account of major change driven by an IT department in one of Europe’s largest local authorities and hence help bridge Systems Thinking and Practice.

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  1. Information Systems Department of Computing Science, University of Paisley, Scotland

    J. G. Howell

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  1. University of Paisley, Paisley, Scotland, UK

    Frank A. Stowell , Daune West  & James G. Howell ,  & 

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Howell, J.G. (1993). Towards the Case for More Deliberate Strategic is. In: Stowell, F.A., West, D., Howell, J.G. (eds) Systems Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2862-3_102

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