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Theodore Frick is an associate professor in the Department of Instructional Technology in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. His teaching and research interests include Web design praxiology, analysis of temporal and structural patterns in education and systemic change in education (http://education.indiana.edu/~frick).
Kenneth R. Thompson is an independent consultant for developing predictive theories of intentional systems; e.g., educational systems, military systems, personnel hiring systems and so on. He is founder of the theory ATIS, Axiomatic Theories of Intentional Systems. He can be reached at ken@raven58vn.com.
Joyce Koh is a doctoral student in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her current research interests include motivation strategies, classroom applications of general systems theory, and instructional strategies for technology skills education.
A corporate reengineering approach to systemic change
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Francis M. Duffy., Charles M. Reigeluth., Monica Solomon. et al. The Process of Systemic Change. TECHTRENDS TECH TRENDS 50, 41–51 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-006-7585-y
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