By Merrelyn Emery.
How can we produce strategic plans that people actually want to implement? How can the process create a sense of belonging and allow members of communities and organizations to take control over their own affairs?
Fred Emery and I tackled these questions while producing Open System Theory.
Open Systems Theory: The framework
Open Systems Theory has two basic concepts:
1. The world consists of systems with permeable boundaries, ie., systems which are open to their environments. This gives us co-evolution, the mutual determination of system and environment.