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Management-Kybernetik als allgemeiner Rahmen für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Lean Management in v...

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Zahlreiche Lean-Transformationsprojekte scheitern oder erreichen nicht die gewünschte Performance und/oder Tragfähigkeit, die für eine nachhaltige Umsetzung des Lean Managements erforderlich ist. Es gibt jedoch einige Faktoren, die die erfolgreiche Umsetzung......
Online event
Thu, Sep 25th, 2025
19:00 - 20:30  CET+1
SCiO DACH
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Dutch
SCiO NL
Development
SCiO NL

SCIO-NL monthly meeting October 2025 (live in Vianen and in Dutch)

Vianen, Netherlands
Fri, Oct 3rd, 2025
12:30 - 16:30  CET+1
FREE
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NL Members + Guests
Dutch
SCiO NL

SCIO-NL monthly meeting October 2025 (live in Vianen and in Dutch)

Development
SCIO-NL komt elke 1e of 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen, afwisselend in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c) of in Woerden (Pelmolenlaan 2). Er staan (meestal) geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert......
Vianen, Netherlands
Fri, Oct 3rd, 2025
12:30 - 16:30  CET+1
SCiO NL
FREE
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NL Members + Guests
Dutch
meeting
Development
SCiO Belgium

Intervisiesessie 1: Systemisch denken voor taaie vraagstukken

Mechelen, Belgium
Tue, Oct 14th, 2025 - Sun, Dec 14th, 2025
19:00 - 21:00  CET+1
30 euro
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Dutch
meeting

Intervisiesessie 1: Systemisch denken voor taaie vraagstukken

Development
In een tijd waarin maatschappelijke, ecologische en organisatorische uitdagingen steeds complexer en meer verweven raken, volstaat lineair probleemdenken niet langer. Wat vandaag als oplossing geldt, kan morgen deel worden van het probleem. Het vraagt van ons......
Mechelen, Belgium
Tue, Oct 14th, 2025 - Sun, Dec 14th, 2025
19:00 - 21:00  CET+1
SCiO Belgium
30 euro
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English
Development
SCiO UK

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event - October 2025

Online event
Tue, Oct 21st, 2025
13:00 - 15:00  GMT+1
FREE to members
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English

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event - October 2025

Development
SCiO’s Development Event offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO......
Online event
Tue, Oct 21st, 2025
13:00 - 15:00  GMT+1
SCiO UK
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Selected Courses

VSM introduction
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Viable System Model

introduction - VSM1

£200 pre-recorded Patrick Hoverstadt
This pre-recorded course of 1h 49 minutes plus exercises originally took a 6h day to work through. This course provides learners with an overview of the Viable System Model covering: Overview of VSM Basic modelling using VSM If you don’t know how to design an organisation to deliver your strategy, or how structural change happens in organisations, how effective can you be in implementing your
VSM introduction
Viable System Model

introduction - VSM1

This pre-recorded course of 1h 49 minutes plus exercises originally took a 6h day to work through. This course provides learners with an overview of the Viable System Model covering: Overview of VSM Basic modelling using VSM If you don’t know how to design an organisation to deliver your strategy, or how structural change happens in organisations, how effective can you be in implementing your...
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Course is online
£200 pre-recorded
SD intro
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System Dynamics

introduction - SD1

£200 pre-recorded Peter Lacey
This pre-recorded course of 2h 07 minutes plus exercises originally took a 6h day to work through. System dynamics modelling, often referred to as stock-flow modelling, is an accessible approach to understanding change in complex systems. It is based on the principle that system structure determines behaviour over time as system outcomes, or performance, emerges. The approach builds on an
SD intro
System Dynamics

introduction - SD1

This pre-recorded course of 2h 07 minutes plus exercises originally took a 6h day to work through. System dynamics modelling, often referred to as stock-flow modelling, is an accessible approach to understanding change in complex systems. It is based on the principle that system structure determines behaviour over time as system outcomes, or performance, emerges. The approach builds on an...
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Course is online
£200 pre-recorded
CSH intro
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Critical Systems Heuristics

introduction - CSH1

£100 pre-recorded Tony Korycki
This pre-recorded course of 1h 19minutes plus exercises originally took a 3h half-day to work through. This course provides learners with an introduction to the Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) method. Understanding situations using Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) is an introductory module, designed for those relatively new to systems thinking and provides basic training in modelling
CSH intro
Critical Systems Heuristics

introduction - CSH1

This pre-recorded course of 1h 19minutes plus exercises originally took a 3h half-day to work through. This course provides learners with an introduction to the Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) method. Understanding situations using Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) is an introductory module, designed for those relatively new to systems thinking and provides basic training in modelling...
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Course is online
£100 pre-recorded
SSM core
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Soft Systems Methodology

core - SSM2

£300 pre-recorded Ian Cammack
This pre-recorded course of 3h 34minutes plus exercises originally took one and a half 6h days to work through. This is a core training course, designed for those relatively new to systems thinking and provides basic training in modelling organisational or institutional situations using SSM. You’ll develop an understanding of a methodology that offers a pluralistic methodology to your inquiry into
SSM core
Soft Systems Methodology

core - SSM2

This pre-recorded course of 3h 34minutes plus exercises originally took one and a half 6h days to work through. This is a core training course, designed for those relatively new to systems thinking and provides basic training in modelling organisational or institutional situations using SSM. You’ll develop an understanding of a methodology that offers a pluralistic methodology to your inquiry into...
buy now
Course is online
£300 pre-recorded

Why Practice Systems Thinking?

The world around us is full of complexity, from the environment, to our workplaces to our own bodies. Systems thinking equips you with a framework to understand these complexities and navigate them more effectively. 

Systems thinking helps you tackle complex problematic situations: Many situations we face have interconnected causes and effects. By seeing the bigger picture and the relationships within a situation, you can identify patterns, causal mechanisms, structures, power, and dynamics. This allows you to design changes that address the system as a whole, rather than just treating symptoms.

English
0:24

Understanding impact of sustainability intermediaries in a complex adaptive system

This presentation outlines an evolving attempt by an organisation working in a densely-populated, complex and dynamic ecosystem to understand the impact of its policy-influencing work. The organisation is exploring impact across numerous dimensions and seeks to understand its contributions to wider systemic change, rather than seek direct attribution.
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English
0:24

Understanding impact of sustainability intermediaries in a complex adaptive system

This presentation outlines an evolving attempt by an organisation working in a densely-populated, complex and dynamic ecosystem to understand the impact of its policy-influencing work. The organisation is exploring impact across numerous dimensions and seeks to understand its contributions to wider systemic change, rather than seek direct attribution.
Use with Accreditation
English
0:21

Recursive canvases in management consulting: applied systems thinking or not?

Tim presented an approach to integrating different systems thinking methodologies and tools with business analysis tools into a bespoke inhouse Strategy and Transformation Canvas, building on Osterwalder's business model canvas and his own work at the University of Northampton on a social venture canvas. He showed the the canvas is recursive and helps the practitioner to 'locate' the common...
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English
0:21

Recursive canvases in management consulting: applied systems thinking or not?

Tim presented an approach to integrating different systems thinking methodologies and tools with business analysis tools into a bespoke inhouse Strategy and Transformation Canvas, building on Osterwalder's business model canvas and his own work at the University of Northampton on a social venture canvas. He showed the the canvas is recursive and helps the practitioner to 'locate' the common...
Contact the Author
English
0:11

Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability

Using a causal loop diagram for designing points of intervention in the OODA Loop to enhance the competencies for protecting yourself, other around you and your business. Translating this into a non-systems model for designing the training delivery of the competencies for a non-systems thinking participants. (Bringing safety into systems thinking and taking systems thinking into safety).
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Confidential – Members Only
English
0:11

Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability

Using a causal loop diagram for designing points of intervention in the OODA Loop to enhance the competencies for protecting yourself, other around you and your business. Translating this into a non-systems model for designing the training delivery of the competencies for a non-systems thinking participants. (Bringing safety into systems thinking and taking systems thinking into safety).
Confidential – Members Only
English
0:24

A cybernetic perspective on service provision in medium-sized enterprises – current status of implementation in the company and outlook for the research project

The author is leading a project at her employer's company that aims to transform the traditional hierarchical organisational structure of the owner-managed business into a cybernetic model based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). The planned contribution to SysPrac will first briefly outline the genesis of the project and the implementation steps achieved so far in the company. The...
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English
0:24

A cybernetic perspective on service provision in medium-sized enterprises – current status of implementation in the company and outlook for the research project

The author is leading a project at her employer's company that aims to transform the traditional hierarchical organisational structure of the owner-managed business into a cybernetic model based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). The planned contribution to SysPrac will first briefly outline the genesis of the project and the implementation steps achieved so far in the company. The...
Contact the Author