ToTAL/OPEN Programs "System Thinking & Leadership (Series of 2 classes)" (AY2022 3Q4Q)

We are happy to announce "Call for Entries" to the subject workshop. Any of Tokyo Tech students, who are belonging to the categories below, are being encouraged to apply the workshop.

Systems Thinking is a broader concept than the word "system" used in IT and institutions. It's the interdependence of mutual influence.

In the society we live in, cause and effect are not always close to each other. Our usual thinking about consequences that occur physically and temporally distant from our actions may not work well, resulting in a reality that "no one wants". For example, if we use insecticides to try to prevent a malaria epidemic, another epidemic will spread. If you build a construction project to alleviate road congestion, you find that the road is badly clogged with more cars than before. You're running promotions to meet your sales budget, but the same problems keep recurring every quarter. How can we solve the challenges of the interconnectedness that surround us? Systems Thinking is a way of thinking that delves into the "connections" between the complex events we experience in reality, and improves our insight to create the results we really want from a deeper level than simply dealing with problems. In this session, we will focus on Systems Thinking, touching on ideas such as "learning organizations" and "mental models", and we will also explore the nature of leadership in this complex society.

Session 1 Sunday, February 5, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session 2 Sunday, February 12, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Room S422, South Bldg. 4, Ookayama Campus

ToTAL/OPEN Programs are courses that graduate students outside of ToTAL may apply (credits and Gas can be given) and are workshops, the contents of ToTAL courses, to which both graduate and undergraduate students may join on ad-hoc basis (no credits/GAs will not be given).
The most of ToTAL/OPEN Programs are a part of "Entrepreneurship Development Programs" of Tokyo Tech and are also "events" listed in "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program".

Schedule (and Attending Plan) and outline of ToTAL courses and workshops, as contents of the courses (and if the workshop are part of "Events" designated by "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program") can be downloaded from URL below.

If you want to join any workshop(s) of ToTAL/OPEN Programs, please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as above and send it back to followings;