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NHS reforms have exposed leaders and staff to a scope and speed of change unlike anything they have experienced before. At a time when the NHS is still acclimatising to the most significant change since its establishment, we may pose a question, 'does the current context present a prime opportunity for new ways of thinking and working to emerge?” and “How does it feel to be a NHS manager trying to champion systems thinking in this new world?'&nbs... Read more
I joined the ICT industry in 1974, teaching COBOL programming. By the early 1990's I had opened the first computer training department at Tesco head office, been a systems programmer, written one of the first database systems to run on the IBM PC, and generally had a lot of fun.
But I had also noticed that many of the best paid jobs I had done were on projects that either failed or were barely successful. My experience showed... Read more
Angus has a transdisciplinary biography that includes professor, entrepreneur, consultant, writer, meditant and photographer.
• Most businesses have an intentional but inadequate and dysfunctional approach to managing identity. This session will propose that any organism or organization has its own organizational logic, which closes it off from being anything else, and anything else from being it.
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Markets are the ecosystems in which enterprises thrive, survive, and periodically die. A successful enterprise understands its value in the context of the wider environment, and can constantly redesign itself as the ecosystem evolves.
Understanding context when designing or re‐designing a structure is one of the fundamental capabilities of any architect. Whether their medium is buildings, landscapes, ships or enterprises, the ... Read more
Managing the complexity of the internet-based global market. During the last 20 years, the complexity of the Internet-based global market has increased to such extend that many conventional resource-allocation systems have difficulty in coping with the increased demand/supply dynamics.
The talk will focus on new methods for managing complexity of the Internet-based global market based on concepts of adaptability and real-time decision makin... Read more
The public sector is beginning to apply systems thinking to society’s wicked issues. Through the relatively new profession of commissioning, an emerging culture and set of tools is pushing the boundaries of leadership, service development and the role of the state. A revolution is afoot.
During the discussion we’ll explore the application of systems thinking to local children’s services – What are we here to deliver? How do we ... Read more
In, October Steve set out a framework fro mapping systems concepts, principles and models to real life applications of the sort that interest SCIO members. In this presentation, Steve will describe an example of the explicit use of a systems model (the VSM) to critique, diagnose and design interventions in a specific domain - the management of financial performance.
Steve Morlidge is an ex Unilever ‘lifer’ now working as an independent researche... Read more
This theoretical and experiential session explores the practice of mindfulness and the qualities of intention that may help cultivate a concept of the self as part of a wider interdependent and interconnected system. We will also discuss the role that mindfulness could play in developing adaptive relationships between humans and the natural world.
Nadine specialises in mindfulness and nature-based approaches to coaching, facilitation, consu... Read more
People have been working in the systems field for over 50 years and there is a rich array of approaches and perspectives that can leave even seasoned practitioners in the field with large blind spots, not least those actively engaged in creating new systems knowledge. Newcomers to systems can easily be confused and overwhelmed. In addition, the language of systems has often been hijacked in an attempt to make their own ideas appear more comprehen... Read more
Lynnclaire Dennis is a member of an international team of mathematicians, scientists and researchers who’ve worked together since 1994 to systematically verify a geospherical system. From 1998- 2007, computer modelling validated it universal; showing how it dynamically unites Nature’s building blocks. ‘The Mereon Matrix; Unity, Perspective and Paradox’, published by Elsevier in 2013, present the basics and show it applied to the origin of the uni... Read more