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Adaptive Organisation Design - organising with stakeholders in mind

As companies increasingly need to collaborate to deliver large projects, and as the world of work gets evermore complex with short-term contracts and the ‘gig economy’, it is getting harder to structure organisations that are fit for purpose and adaptive to changing needs
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Adaptive Organisation Design - organising with stakeholders in mind

As companies increasingly need to collaborate to deliver large projects, and as the world of work gets evermore complex with short-term contracts and the ‘gig economy’, it is getting harder to structure organisations that are fit for purpose and adaptive to changing needs
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Using Lego® Serious Play® for problem framing and solving

This will be an interactive workshop session where Parag will introduce the science behind the Lego® Serious Play® methodology and guide the group working on a real world problem. The Lego® Serious Play® methodology is an innovative, experimental process designed to enhance innovation and business performance. It is based on research which shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning...
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Using Lego® Serious Play® for problem framing and solving

This will be an interactive workshop session where Parag will introduce the science behind the Lego® Serious Play® methodology and guide the group working on a real world problem. The Lego® Serious Play® methodology is an innovative, experimental process designed to enhance innovation and business performance. It is based on research which shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning...
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The Confrontation Analysis Handbook: How to Resolve Confrontations by Eliminating Dilemmas; Innovations in Wargaming Volume 3

RRP: £14.95 Paperback: 92 pages Publisher: lulu.com (26 Mar 2018) ISBN: 0244913870 Confrontation Analysis, also called dilemma analysis or drama theory, was originally devised by Professor Nigel Howard in 1997 as a way of modelling crises. Although used by UK General Rupert Smith in his 2006 book The Utility of Force, the method fell into obscurity. After 10 years work in the defence sector, the...
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The Confrontation Analysis Handbook: How to Resolve Confrontations by Eliminating Dilemmas; Innovations in Wargaming Volume 3

RRP: £14.95 Paperback: 92 pages Publisher: lulu.com (26 Mar 2018) ISBN: 0244913870 Confrontation Analysis, also called dilemma analysis or drama theory, was originally devised by Professor Nigel Howard in 1997 as a way of modelling crises. Although used by UK General Rupert Smith in his 2006 book The Utility of Force, the method fell into obscurity. After 10 years work in the defence sector, the...
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Die Intelligente Organisation: Das Playbook für organisatorische Komplexität

RRP: 24,95 € Taschenbuch : 286 Seiten ISBN-10 : 3869804092 Publisher : BusinessVillage GmbH (19 Mar. 2018) Language : German In Zeiten zunehmender Dynamik erkennen immer mehr Unternehmen, dass das tayloristische „Command & Control“ nicht mehr funktioniert. Auch die Reduktion auf Teal Organisations oder Holokratie und andere Kochrezepte bringen keineswegs die erhofften Erfolge. Wir müssen erkennen...
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Die Intelligente Organisation: Das Playbook für organisatorische Komplexität

RRP: 24,95 € Taschenbuch : 286 Seiten ISBN-10 : 3869804092 Publisher : BusinessVillage GmbH (19 Mar. 2018) Language : German In Zeiten zunehmender Dynamik erkennen immer mehr Unternehmen, dass das tayloristische „Command & Control“ nicht mehr funktioniert. Auch die Reduktion auf Teal Organisations oder Holokratie und andere Kochrezepte bringen keineswegs die erhofften Erfolge. Wir müssen erkennen...
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Modelling BT using the Viable System Model

Stephen will talk about the latest developments in building and using his dynamic computer based viable system model for planning and delivering change in BT.
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Modelling BT using the Viable System Model

Stephen will talk about the latest developments in building and using his dynamic computer based viable system model for planning and delivering change in BT.
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Testing Viability – Data Transitions

Between each of the VSM constituent systems there are feedback loops. An explanation of the nature of the kinds of processing that each feedback loop may require to support the principle of “Clear Line of Sight” on a coherent basis such that the impact of inferential distance can be reduced and at the same time detect anomalies associated with “Inversion of Control” and their impact.
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Testing Viability – Data Transitions

Between each of the VSM constituent systems there are feedback loops. An explanation of the nature of the kinds of processing that each feedback loop may require to support the principle of “Clear Line of Sight” on a coherent basis such that the impact of inferential distance can be reduced and at the same time detect anomalies associated with “Inversion of Control” and their impact.
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Welcome to the Edge: A Model to Successfully Navigate Change

The term "edge" is more and more part of our daily language. Situations can feel "edgy" or you might declare yourself to be on the "edge of a breakthrough" (or breakdown...) Understanding Edge Theory provides us with a simple framework to work effectively with the complexities of change. This model helps teams and organisational systems to understand: WHERE they are in relation to the change, WHAT...
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Welcome to the Edge: A Model to Successfully Navigate Change

The term "edge" is more and more part of our daily language. Situations can feel "edgy" or you might declare yourself to be on the "edge of a breakthrough" (or breakdown...) Understanding Edge Theory provides us with a simple framework to work effectively with the complexities of change. This model helps teams and organisational systems to understand: WHERE they are in relation to the change, WHAT...
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A Mini-Primer of Critical Systems Heuristics

"Critical Systems Heuristics," also just called "Critical Heuristics" or "CSH," is a framework for reflective practice based on practical philosophy and systems thinking. The basic idea of CSH is to support boundary critique – a systematic effort of handling boundary judgments critically. Boundary judgments determine which empirical observations and value considerations count as relevant and which...
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A Mini-Primer of Critical Systems Heuristics

"Critical Systems Heuristics," also just called "Critical Heuristics" or "CSH," is a framework for reflective practice based on practical philosophy and systems thinking. The basic idea of CSH is to support boundary critique – a systematic effort of handling boundary judgments critically. Boundary judgments determine which empirical observations and value considerations count as relevant and which...
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2:00

Making more meaningful models: A hands-on guide

This will be a practical session on visualising systems in ways that other people can understand. If “all models are wrong but some are useful”, we propose that some of this usefulness comes down to how meaningful the model is to those who didn’t create it. If you have ever built an elegant, powerful, predictive model of a system that excited little or no interest from the people affected by it...
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2:00

Making more meaningful models: A hands-on guide

This will be a practical session on visualising systems in ways that other people can understand. If “all models are wrong but some are useful”, we propose that some of this usefulness comes down to how meaningful the model is to those who didn’t create it. If you have ever built an elegant, powerful, predictive model of a system that excited little or no interest from the people affected by it...
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0:41 +Q

ITIL and Systems

Talks describing an investigation into ITIL and IT service management from a systems perspective. The viable systems model is here applied to IT Service Management - which is regulated in many countries by the ITIL standard. A particular focus in this talk is the cybernetic loops - the stability, adaptability and transformation loops - that function in the operations space of IT support - known as...
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0:41 +Q

ITIL and Systems

Talks describing an investigation into ITIL and IT service management from a systems perspective. The viable systems model is here applied to IT Service Management - which is regulated in many countries by the ITIL standard. A particular focus in this talk is the cybernetic loops - the stability, adaptability and transformation loops - that function in the operations space of IT support - known as...
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1:01

Meta-contextuality through the medium of Bongard games: why methods and practices depend on context

Many of us are searching for 'neat and complete' answers to the messiness and complexity of (organisational / social / economic / ecological) life. Me too, though I've always known it's impossible. Then I stumbled across Bongard games on meaningless.com thanks to Mike Haber, and discovered a way to demonstrate - through experience - why it's not possible. I'll invite you to experience the joy of...
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1:01

Meta-contextuality through the medium of Bongard games: why methods and practices depend on context

Many of us are searching for 'neat and complete' answers to the messiness and complexity of (organisational / social / economic / ecological) life. Me too, though I've always known it's impossible. Then I stumbled across Bongard games on meaningless.com thanks to Mike Haber, and discovered a way to demonstrate - through experience - why it's not possible. I'll invite you to experience the joy of...
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0:51 +Q

Fake art, bad science and what we can learn from using systems thinking to examine the mechanics of law

Stemming from the Enlightenment period, science has come to be viewed as the best way to establish truth from an objective standpoint. In its quest for the black and white outcomes of “guilty/not guilty”, it is perhaps not surprising that the legal system has become affected by the dominant reductionist narrative of positivism. Positivist politics have been enforced though both the technicalities...
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0:51 +Q

Fake art, bad science and what we can learn from using systems thinking to examine the mechanics of law

Stemming from the Enlightenment period, science has come to be viewed as the best way to establish truth from an objective standpoint. In its quest for the black and white outcomes of “guilty/not guilty”, it is perhaps not surprising that the legal system has become affected by the dominant reductionist narrative of positivism. Positivist politics have been enforced though both the technicalities...
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Systems Practice: How to Act: In situations of uncertainty and complexity in a climate-change world

RRP: £59.99 Hardback: ‎ 374 pp Publisher: ‎ Springer; 2nd ed. 2017 edition; ISBN 978-1447173502 This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action). It will be welcomed by those managing or governing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and personal life. The development of capabilities to...
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Systems Practice: How to Act: In situations of uncertainty and complexity in a climate-change world

RRP: £59.99 Hardback: ‎ 374 pp Publisher: ‎ Springer; 2nd ed. 2017 edition; ISBN 978-1447173502 This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action). It will be welcomed by those managing or governing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and personal life. The development of capabilities to...
Engels
0:35+(0:18Q)

An Ecology of Health

We refer to 'healthcare' as a system, suggestive of structures and boundaries. What can we take health to mean beyond healthcare? Are our efforts to create 'person centred healthcare' simply a matter of re-drawing organisational charts with patients at the middle? If we define patient as a person in the care of a health professional, are we increasing reliance on a system geared toward the...
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0:35+(0:18Q)

An Ecology of Health

We refer to 'healthcare' as a system, suggestive of structures and boundaries. What can we take health to mean beyond healthcare? Are our efforts to create 'person centred healthcare' simply a matter of re-drawing organisational charts with patients at the middle? If we define patient as a person in the care of a health professional, are we increasing reliance on a system geared toward the...
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0:35+0:24

Thinking Systemically - what is it and how might diagramming help?

In this session, I wish to explore 3 themes (1) the nature of 'thinking systemically' (2) the role of critical reflection in thinking systemically (3) the interplay between use of diagramming, critical reflection and thinking systemically. The approach will be a mix of presentation and participant discussion. I will present some of my own thoughts on each theme, and at intervals ask participants...
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0:35+0:24

Thinking Systemically - what is it and how might diagramming help?

In this session, I wish to explore 3 themes (1) the nature of 'thinking systemically' (2) the role of critical reflection in thinking systemically (3) the interplay between use of diagramming, critical reflection and thinking systemically. The approach will be a mix of presentation and participant discussion. I will present some of my own thoughts on each theme, and at intervals ask participants...
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0:36+0:20 +Q

A Map To Think “Systemically” About What Is Not Yet There

The fourth industrial revolution is powered by cognitive computing, which automates many aspects of the human intellect. Algorithms are increasingly capable of identifying connections, patterns and co-evolution in big data, enabling us to make sense from a systemic perspective. At the same time complexity is paralyzing innovation in ecosystems. It is more and more difficult to describe...
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0:36+0:20 +Q

A Map To Think “Systemically” About What Is Not Yet There

The fourth industrial revolution is powered by cognitive computing, which automates many aspects of the human intellect. Algorithms are increasingly capable of identifying connections, patterns and co-evolution in big data, enabling us to make sense from a systemic perspective. At the same time complexity is paralyzing innovation in ecosystems. It is more and more difficult to describe...
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Making it Personal: Viable Systems, NLP & A Body-Mind of Knowledge

Gregory Bateson’s influence reaches deep into the fabric of NLP which can be defined in essence as ‘the study of the structure of subjective experience’. All its major techniques are based on cybernetic principles. We will explore some key systemic NLP concepts and what these might offer the conversation between the inner world of the individual and the larger systems that form its life conditions...
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Making it Personal: Viable Systems, NLP & A Body-Mind of Knowledge

Gregory Bateson’s influence reaches deep into the fabric of NLP which can be defined in essence as ‘the study of the structure of subjective experience’. All its major techniques are based on cybernetic principles. We will explore some key systemic NLP concepts and what these might offer the conversation between the inner world of the individual and the larger systems that form its life conditions...
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0:59 +Q

Systems Thinking and Doing in Defence – the misadventures of a boundary spanner and other experiments

Adoption of systems thinking and systems approaches in a hierarchical public sector organisation such as defence can be challenging.
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0:59 +Q

Systems Thinking and Doing in Defence – the misadventures of a boundary spanner and other experiments

Adoption of systems thinking and systems approaches in a hierarchical public sector organisation such as defence can be challenging.
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From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM

Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM

Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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0:25 +Q

Organisational Decision Making: What lies beneath managers’ decisions

Natalie Marguet is currently a PhD student at Alliance Manchester Business School. The session focuses on an emergent and unexpected finding of her PhD that is aligned with VSM.
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0:25 +Q

Organisational Decision Making: What lies beneath managers’ decisions

Natalie Marguet is currently a PhD student at Alliance Manchester Business School. The session focuses on an emergent and unexpected finding of her PhD that is aligned with VSM.
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1:06

Miles Runs the Gurus Down: what we can learn from Miles Davis

Miles Davis merely changed the face of music 4 or 5 times in his career. To be a successful jazz musician and leader is a challenge; to sustain that over more than 30 years is astonishing.
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1:06

Miles Runs the Gurus Down: what we can learn from Miles Davis

Miles Davis merely changed the face of music 4 or 5 times in his career. To be a successful jazz musician and leader is a challenge; to sustain that over more than 30 years is astonishing.
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0:28 +Q

From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM

Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM

Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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The Search for Viability: A practitioner's view of how the Viable Systems Model is helping transform English local government (and why it has passed unrecognised)

Since 2010, local authorities in England have experienced an unprecedented reduction in their resourcing at a time when demands on services have risen substantially through social and demographic changes. Faced with such external challenges, various Councils' internal transformations have sought to change the organisation as a system, but also to alter the relationship with the environment. These...
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The Search for Viability: A practitioner's view of how the Viable Systems Model is helping transform English local government (and why it has passed unrecognised)

Since 2010, local authorities in England have experienced an unprecedented reduction in their resourcing at a time when demands on services have risen substantially through social and demographic changes. Faced with such external challenges, various Councils' internal transformations have sought to change the organisation as a system, but also to alter the relationship with the environment. These...
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The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting: A New Operating System for Organisations: What it is and Why it Works

RRP: £12.99; Paperback: ‎ 96 pp; Publisher: ‎ Matador; Language: ‎ English; ISBN: ‎ 9781785899287 It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting, yet businesses carry on doing it because they believe that there is no alternative . But there is - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement...
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The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting: A New Operating System for Organisations: What it is and Why it Works

RRP: £12.99; Paperback: ‎ 96 pp; Publisher: ‎ Matador; Language: ‎ English; ISBN: ‎ 9781785899287 It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting, yet businesses carry on doing it because they believe that there is no alternative . But there is - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement...
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Unified Service Management: An Introduction to the USM Method

RRP: £36.55 Paperback: ‎ 204 pp Publisher: ‎ Inform-IT, Knowledge Center for Service Management Language: ‎ English ISBN: ‎ 978-9491710353 USM is a universal, methodical way of managing service delivery. The USM method provides a standardized management system for a service organization to manage its people, its resources, its routines, and its services. USM can be used in all service...
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Unified Service Management: An Introduction to the USM Method

RRP: £36.55 Paperback: ‎ 204 pp Publisher: ‎ Inform-IT, Knowledge Center for Service Management Language: ‎ English ISBN: ‎ 978-9491710353 USM is a universal, methodical way of managing service delivery. The USM method provides a standardized management system for a service organization to manage its people, its resources, its routines, and its services. USM can be used in all service...
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0:41

Patterns of Strategy

Patterns of Strategy has been described as: “the first major new approach to strategy in a long time.”* It is also the first systems approach developed specifically for understanding and formulating strategy. This extended session will introduce the Patterns of Strategy approach, some of the systems theory behind it and then we’ll move into a practical workshop where the participants will use the...
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0:41

Patterns of Strategy

Patterns of Strategy has been described as: “the first major new approach to strategy in a long time.”* It is also the first systems approach developed specifically for understanding and formulating strategy. This extended session will introduce the Patterns of Strategy approach, some of the systems theory behind it and then we’ll move into a practical workshop where the participants will use the...
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Limitations of Systems Approaches, Methods and Models in Addressing Challenges in Complex Environments

Issues such as the Anthropocene are testament to the complexity of the issues with which systems people (Thinkers, Practitioners, and Engineers) are having to address. The nature of the systems we need to create are more interdependent with complexity inherent and require transient and agile approaches. However, no matter the approach, method, methodology or model our interventions often fail to...
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Limitations of Systems Approaches, Methods and Models in Addressing Challenges in Complex Environments

Issues such as the Anthropocene are testament to the complexity of the issues with which systems people (Thinkers, Practitioners, and Engineers) are having to address. The nature of the systems we need to create are more interdependent with complexity inherent and require transient and agile approaches. However, no matter the approach, method, methodology or model our interventions often fail to...
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Ladder of Abstraction

This short presentation will give an overview of the Ladder of Abstraction, a simple but effective tool for helping practitioners and their customers identify the most appropriate level at which to tackle a stated problem and explore a broader range of potential solutions. A real example will be worked through to demonstrate its application.
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Ladder of Abstraction

This short presentation will give an overview of the Ladder of Abstraction, a simple but effective tool for helping practitioners and their customers identify the most appropriate level at which to tackle a stated problem and explore a broader range of potential solutions. A real example will be worked through to demonstrate its application.
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Creating living strategies in a complex world: Implementing cybernetics to create the social capital needed for sustainable success.

In a fast-moving and complex world we need to make speedy decisions involving a large number of business perspectives. We need to co-ordinate a large number of activities to deliver on those decisions. We need all these elements to be bound by a common purpose, to ensure the buy-in of all those involved. Rather than, as in the past, sticking rigidly to “strategic” plans defined at the start of a...
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Creating living strategies in a complex world: Implementing cybernetics to create the social capital needed for sustainable success.

In a fast-moving and complex world we need to make speedy decisions involving a large number of business perspectives. We need to co-ordinate a large number of activities to deliver on those decisions. We need all these elements to be bound by a common purpose, to ensure the buy-in of all those involved. Rather than, as in the past, sticking rigidly to “strategic” plans defined at the start of a...
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Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled

RRP: £8.68 Paperback: ‎ 220 pp Publisher: ‎ SAGE Response; ISBN 978-9386446732 Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the...
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Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled

RRP: £8.68 Paperback: ‎ 220 pp Publisher: ‎ SAGE Response; ISBN 978-9386446732 Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the...
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Patterns of Strategy

RRP: £22.21 Paperback: 406 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (9 Dec. 2016) ISBN-10: 1138242675 Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand how to manoeuvre their organisation to change its strategic fit to their advantage. The 80 ‘patterns’ of strategy help you explore options for...
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Patterns of Strategy

RRP: £22.21 Paperback: 406 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (9 Dec. 2016) ISBN-10: 1138242675 Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand how to manoeuvre their organisation to change its strategic fit to their advantage. The 80 ‘patterns’ of strategy help you explore options for...
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Learning and Performance: A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training

RRP: £29.50 Paperback: ‎ 258 pp Publisher: ‎ Routledge; ISBN 978-1032838519 Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and...
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Learning and Performance: A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training

RRP: £29.50 Paperback: ‎ 258 pp Publisher: ‎ Routledge; ISBN 978-1032838519 Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and...
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1:07 +Q

Organisations as complex viable systems:

In this talk Angela will provide a brief review of development of complex systems approaches to management and sustainability research.
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Organisations as complex viable systems:

In this talk Angela will provide a brief review of development of complex systems approaches to management and sustainability research.
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Reflexivity in Systems Thinking

How do we regulate ourselves in practice? How do we bring elegance and aesthetics to our work? How can single double and triple loop learning prompt greater reflexivity in practice? How can we embody theoretical knowledge in a way that encompasses all our being and act with deep awareness? How do we ensure that the quality of the interventions we make are enhanced by an awareness of our internal...
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Reflexivity in Systems Thinking

How do we regulate ourselves in practice? How do we bring elegance and aesthetics to our work? How can single double and triple loop learning prompt greater reflexivity in practice? How can we embody theoretical knowledge in a way that encompasses all our being and act with deep awareness? How do we ensure that the quality of the interventions we make are enhanced by an awareness of our internal...
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Systems Thinking Focussed Workplace Learning Groups

Mike Haber, a University IT Team Leader, and Tim James, a Health Care Commissioner, met at a recent SCiO Development Day and discovered they were independently leading Systems Thinking focussed workplace learning groups.
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Systems Thinking Focussed Workplace Learning Groups

Mike Haber, a University IT Team Leader, and Tim James, a Health Care Commissioner, met at a recent SCiO Development Day and discovered they were independently leading Systems Thinking focussed workplace learning groups.
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0:37 +Q

Using systems thinking tools to identify training needs and evaluate training

Organisations often see training as an important way to improve individual and team performance, but may fail to consider how training relates to broader organisational issues affecting performance, or how it may complement ongoing informal learning activities. Systems thinking as a broader concept provides a useful way of identifying how training can be designed so that it supports individual and...
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Using systems thinking tools to identify training needs and evaluate training

Organisations often see training as an important way to improve individual and team performance, but may fail to consider how training relates to broader organisational issues affecting performance, or how it may complement ongoing informal learning activities. Systems thinking as a broader concept provides a useful way of identifying how training can be designed so that it supports individual and...
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The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

RRP: £50 Paperback : 212 pages ISBN : 9811013500 Publisher : Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 edition (18 Sept. 2016) Language: : English This fully-updated and re-imagined version of the classic book offers a detailed outline for developing an action research project, focused specifically on Critical Participatory Action Research. Elaborates a new view of 'participation'...
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The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

RRP: £50 Paperback : 212 pages ISBN : 9811013500 Publisher : Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 edition (18 Sept. 2016) Language: : English This fully-updated and re-imagined version of the classic book offers a detailed outline for developing an action research project, focused specifically on Critical Participatory Action Research. Elaborates a new view of 'participation'...
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1:04

CareStellations: A systemic constellations approach for the health and care sector

Richard will give an introduction to the constellations methodology used in 1:1 coaching and with organisations to explore underlying dynamics of systems. It will include an experiential element. The technique was originally devised within psychotherapy and now has a wide range of applications. Richard will explain the CareStellations structural approach that he is developing specifically for the...
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CareStellations: A systemic constellations approach for the health and care sector

Richard will give an introduction to the constellations methodology used in 1:1 coaching and with organisations to explore underlying dynamics of systems. It will include an experiential element. The technique was originally devised within psychotherapy and now has a wide range of applications. Richard will explain the CareStellations structural approach that he is developing specifically for the...
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1:00

System leadership - what does it mean to lead a system?

Benjamin will give a flying overview and critique some perspectives on 'system(s) leadership', including: - collaborative leadership and influencing models - living systems - 'whole systems' and large group methods - systems leadership theory - Barry Oshry's power+systems approach - adaptive leadership - leading in complexity - approaches based on behavioural and cognitive insights - approaches...
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System leadership - what does it mean to lead a system?

Benjamin will give a flying overview and critique some perspectives on 'system(s) leadership', including: - collaborative leadership and influencing models - living systems - 'whole systems' and large group methods - systems leadership theory - Barry Oshry's power+systems approach - adaptive leadership - leading in complexity - approaches based on behavioural and cognitive insights - approaches...
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The New Transformational Leadership Mindset

We live in a world of digital transformation, where ongoing change is disrupting organisations and business models. It is challenging and disrupting us as leaders or agents of change. It can inspire a pioneer mindset, to be excited and energized to find and build the future. It can be stressful, with too much to do, and too little time. It’s a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and...
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Engels
0:38 +Q

The New Transformational Leadership Mindset

We live in a world of digital transformation, where ongoing change is disrupting organisations and business models. It is challenging and disrupting us as leaders or agents of change. It can inspire a pioneer mindset, to be excited and energized to find and build the future. It can be stressful, with too much to do, and too little time. It’s a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and...
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Governing in the Anthropocene: towards systemic governance

The talk will reprise themes associated with a number of international addresses given in 2016 that address the question of what does the field of cybersystemics have to offer for governing in the Anthropocene? A response to this question entails examining how the concept 'system' has gone feral and its implications as well as what a field of cybersystemics might look like, and why? Through...
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Engels

Governing in the Anthropocene: towards systemic governance

The talk will reprise themes associated with a number of international addresses given in 2016 that address the question of what does the field of cybersystemics have to offer for governing in the Anthropocene? A response to this question entails examining how the concept 'system' has gone feral and its implications as well as what a field of cybersystemics might look like, and why? Through...
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Engels

Exploring Levels of 'Connected Happenings' - Visioning and Architecture for Transforming the Electrical Power System 

This is a talk about systemic methods in practice. Roger and Jane have been addressing the architecture for future GB electrical power systems in various ways over the last three years. This talk will bring SCiO up to date on progress since their previous SCiO talk, in October 2013, on a distributed electricity architecture. They will address their experiences of grounding a wholly systemic...
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Exploring Levels of 'Connected Happenings' - Visioning and Architecture for Transforming the Electrical Power System 

This is a talk about systemic methods in practice. Roger and Jane have been addressing the architecture for future GB electrical power systems in various ways over the last three years. This talk will bring SCiO up to date on progress since their previous SCiO talk, in October 2013, on a distributed electricity architecture. They will address their experiences of grounding a wholly systemic...
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