Thinking Differently Together: A Long-Lived Systemic Inquiry into Growing Colleagues’ Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open University

How might Open University colleagues support one another in thinking differently and acting with purpose? Anne Gambles introduced the early stages of a long-lived systemic inquiry within The Open University Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) Community of Practice (CoP), co-developing strategy through Soft Systems Methodology and Hypothesis-Driven Delivery. Starting with Why?, Focusing on Outcomes and treating the CoP as a living case study, using STiP methods to guide and reflect on our development. Through our evolving approach, we aim to deepen STiP capability and create value at multiple levels - individual, STiP CoP, The Open University and beyond.