Stephen G. Haines (1945) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, author of books on management and systems thinking, and an international recognized leader in strategic planning and strategic change.[1]
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Stephen Haines has a B.S. in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, an Ed.D (all but dissertation) in management and educational psychology from Temple University, and a M.S.A. in organizational development under Richard F. Ericson and Jerry Harvey at the George Washington University.[1]
As a former U.S. Naval officer, Stephen flew Navy jets, piloted ships, and served off Vietnam.[2] Since the 1970s Haines has worked as executive and consultant in several positions. He has been Executive Vice President of Imperial Corporation of America,[1] a nationwide financial service firm that filed for bankruptcy in 1990.[3] and Senior Vice President of Freddie Mac. Further he had executive positions with MCI Inc., Exxon, Sunoco, and Marriott Corporation. In the 1980s he was president of University Associates (UA) Consulting and Training Services. And in 1990 he founded the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, where he has been CEO ever since, with offices in over 25 countries
In order to develop a strategic management systems Haines (2000) suggests "using the Systems Thinking Approach and its five phases (ABCDE) Systems Thinking model that invites the leader to ask and answer five important questions".[4] These five questions are:[5] (A) Where do we want to be? (B) How do we want to get there? (C) Where are we right now? (D) How do we get there from here?, and (E) What is changing in the environment, that we need to take into account? These five questions "aligns directly with the five phases of a system: (1) output, (2) feedback loop, (3) input, and (4) throughput/actions (5) within the dynamic and changing environment".[5]
Haines written more than 16 books, over 50 articles, and developed 12 volumes of the Haines' Strategic Library.[6] A selection: