Engels
1:01

Exploring a multi-agency system - requisite variety, complexity, systems laws and a bit of a whack

Multiple Disadvantage is a systemic issue - yet the prevailing narrative can be one of individual choice. Multiple disadvantage is also almost an exclusively multi-agency issue. Combine this perceptual and structural complexity and it becomes a little bit tricky to try and sort out. Here we take a heavy dose of requisite variety, add some complexity balancing, blend in some [other] systems laws...
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Exploring a multi-agency system - requisite variety, complexity, systems laws and a bit of a whack

Multiple Disadvantage is a systemic issue - yet the prevailing narrative can be one of individual choice. Multiple disadvantage is also almost an exclusively multi-agency issue. Combine this perceptual and structural complexity and it becomes a little bit tricky to try and sort out. Here we take a heavy dose of requisite variety, add some complexity balancing, blend in some [other] systems laws...
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1:01

10 Years of Systems Thinking Practice: Learnings from the Struggle

Ten years ago, I embarked on a mission to help people tackle complex challenges by synthesising them into maps. Over time, I mastered the technique and further developed it. However, only a few of the hundreds of people I worked with developed a deeper interest in improving their understanding of Systems Thinking principles, tools, and methodologies. I would like to share my reflections on my...
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1:01

10 Years of Systems Thinking Practice: Learnings from the Struggle

Ten years ago, I embarked on a mission to help people tackle complex challenges by synthesising them into maps. Over time, I mastered the technique and further developed it. However, only a few of the hundreds of people I worked with developed a deeper interest in improving their understanding of Systems Thinking principles, tools, and methodologies. I would like to share my reflections on my...
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Engels
1:00

Self-organising beings: the art and practice of embodied wisdom

We are by nature complex self-organising beings, situated within a universe organised in the same way. This has profound implications for how we could potentially organise society, our organisations, and our lives. Systemic practice calls us to attend not just to the systems out there, but also to ourselves, so we can effectively leverage our embodied wisdom towards desired change. This session...
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1:00

Self-organising beings: the art and practice of embodied wisdom

We are by nature complex self-organising beings, situated within a universe organised in the same way. This has profound implications for how we could potentially organise society, our organisations, and our lives. Systemic practice calls us to attend not just to the systems out there, but also to ourselves, so we can effectively leverage our embodied wisdom towards desired change. This session...
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0:38 +Q

Perceptual Control Theory - an 'inside-out' approach to systems thinking

This presentation introduces Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) as an 'inside-out' approach to systems thinking, offering a unique perspective for practitioners in the field. PCT posits that control is an internal process, emphasizing the control of perception rather than behaviour. This distinction sets PCT apart from many traditional systems thinking approaches. The talk will elucidate key PCT...
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0:38 +Q

Perceptual Control Theory - an 'inside-out' approach to systems thinking

This presentation introduces Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) as an 'inside-out' approach to systems thinking, offering a unique perspective for practitioners in the field. PCT posits that control is an internal process, emphasizing the control of perception rather than behaviour. This distinction sets PCT apart from many traditional systems thinking approaches. The talk will elucidate key PCT...
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Engels
0:35

Exploring Systems Thinking practices for transformative change

Systems thinking offers a complementary way of working with complexity through a different lens. It taps into our intuitive knowing that all things and beings are interconnected and inter-dependent. The practice of systems thinking lies in understanding patterns between phenomena rather than breaking issues down into constituent parts, in the knowledge that the definition of a problem determines...
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0:35

Exploring Systems Thinking practices for transformative change

Systems thinking offers a complementary way of working with complexity through a different lens. It taps into our intuitive knowing that all things and beings are interconnected and inter-dependent. The practice of systems thinking lies in understanding patterns between phenomena rather than breaking issues down into constituent parts, in the knowledge that the definition of a problem determines...
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0:54 +Q

opening the box: systems thinking for transformative conversations

This was a special event focusing on learning and communication of systems thinking for practitioners, decision-makers and executives, through the new essay and booklet 'opening the box' and features four SCiO chapter leads: Jan de Visch (Belgium), Miguel Pantaleon (Spain), Namrata Arora (India) and Tony Korycki (UK). The team has been working for several months on an initiative to explore how we...
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0:54 +Q

opening the box: systems thinking for transformative conversations

This was a special event focusing on learning and communication of systems thinking for practitioners, decision-makers and executives, through the new essay and booklet 'opening the box' and features four SCiO chapter leads: Jan de Visch (Belgium), Miguel Pantaleon (Spain), Namrata Arora (India) and Tony Korycki (UK). The team has been working for several months on an initiative to explore how we...
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0:45 +Q

Interactive Planning in Action?

In this talk, Dr Tim Curtis considers Ackoff’s Interactive Planning as a model of interorganisational change. He discusses his decade of collaboration with community police officers to identify whether IP was the primary model used, and what other influences were involved.
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Engels
0:45 +Q

Interactive Planning in Action?

In this talk, Dr Tim Curtis considers Ackoff’s Interactive Planning as a model of interorganisational change. He discusses his decade of collaboration with community police officers to identify whether IP was the primary model used, and what other influences were involved.
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Engels
0:39 +Q

Disability inequality in the healthcare workforce: how my journey through the systems thinking apprenticeship helped to add a new perspective to the problem

Having passed her Systems Thinking Practitioner apprenticeship, Elisse shares her experiences of the course and how, as her skill set developed, she was able to apply it to work based projects. "Disability inequality in the healthcare workforce is a subject close to my heart and I seized on the opportunity to utilise systems thinking approaches to reveal a new perspective on the problem in order...
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Engels
0:39 +Q

Disability inequality in the healthcare workforce: how my journey through the systems thinking apprenticeship helped to add a new perspective to the problem

Having passed her Systems Thinking Practitioner apprenticeship, Elisse shares her experiences of the course and how, as her skill set developed, she was able to apply it to work based projects. "Disability inequality in the healthcare workforce is a subject close to my heart and I seized on the opportunity to utilise systems thinking approaches to reveal a new perspective on the problem in order...
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Fins
1:27

Systeemidynamiikan soveltaminen organisaatioiden kehittämisessä

Systeemidynamiikan työkalut auttavat organisaatiota ymmärtämään monimutkaisia yhteyksiä ja riippuvuuksia toimintaympäristössään sekä ennakoimaan päätösten ja toimintamallien pitkän aikavälin vaikutuksia. Auttamalla tunnistamaan ja ymmärtämään takaisinkytkentöjä ja niiden vaikutuksia organisaation toimintaan, ne tukevat tulevaisuuden eri mahdollisuuksien hahmottamista ja valmistautumista niihin...
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1:27

Systeemidynamiikan soveltaminen organisaatioiden kehittämisessä

Systeemidynamiikan työkalut auttavat organisaatiota ymmärtämään monimutkaisia yhteyksiä ja riippuvuuksia toimintaympäristössään sekä ennakoimaan päätösten ja toimintamallien pitkän aikavälin vaikutuksia. Auttamalla tunnistamaan ja ymmärtämään takaisinkytkentöjä ja niiden vaikutuksia organisaation toimintaan, ne tukevat tulevaisuuden eri mahdollisuuksien hahmottamista ja valmistautumista niihin...
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1:00

What's Stopping Us Stopping Climate Change? - a Systems Thinking answer

The operations of the world are dominated by two artificial human creations: corporations and states. Corporations mostly operate according to the precepts of the global monetary system and neoliberal economics, where money is all and the environment an externality. States attempt regulation for the latter, but are neutered by the system of preferential lobbying. Despite wetter and hotter warnings...
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1:00

What's Stopping Us Stopping Climate Change? - a Systems Thinking answer

The operations of the world are dominated by two artificial human creations: corporations and states. Corporations mostly operate according to the precepts of the global monetary system and neoliberal economics, where money is all and the environment an externality. States attempt regulation for the latter, but are neutered by the system of preferential lobbying. Despite wetter and hotter warnings...
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The Viability of 'Alternative' Systems

Forming alternatives to established economic, technological or political systems, whatever their composition of organisations or institutions, can be difficult, and such alternatives can be susceptible or vulnerable to the 'establishment'. This presentation explores how we can use the Viable System Model as a diagnostic, from data gathered about a number of outsider organisations through dialogue...
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The Viability of 'Alternative' Systems

Forming alternatives to established economic, technological or political systems, whatever their composition of organisations or institutions, can be difficult, and such alternatives can be susceptible or vulnerable to the 'establishment'. This presentation explores how we can use the Viable System Model as a diagnostic, from data gathered about a number of outsider organisations through dialogue...
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How to Transform Organisations by Managing Tensions, not People

Russ presents the findings from his doctoral research into managers as agents of change across large organisations. Essentially, the five behaviours that update the role of the manager from guardian of a resource (project, team, or department) to transformer of the system. How would their bosses measure that, you may ask. The answer is ‘ambidexterity’ – being good at both exploring new knowledge...
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How to Transform Organisations by Managing Tensions, not People

Russ presents the findings from his doctoral research into managers as agents of change across large organisations. Essentially, the five behaviours that update the role of the manager from guardian of a resource (project, team, or department) to transformer of the system. How would their bosses measure that, you may ask. The answer is ‘ambidexterity’ – being good at both exploring new knowledge...
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Engels
0:31 +Q

Running a systemic intervention in Government – a new practitioners perspective

As a new systems practitioner, designing and running a systemic intervention requires not just new knowledge, but also a broad skill set. Using a worked example, this talk will explore how the intervention was designed and implemented, what felt really important in that work, and what impact this all has on the viability of the organisation.
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Engels
0:31 +Q

Running a systemic intervention in Government – a new practitioners perspective

As a new systems practitioner, designing and running a systemic intervention requires not just new knowledge, but also a broad skill set. Using a worked example, this talk will explore how the intervention was designed and implemented, what felt really important in that work, and what impact this all has on the viability of the organisation.
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Engels
0:28 +Q

Cave Drawings and Campfire Conversations: Relocalizing Creativity in your Neighbourhood

Abstract: The “Relocalize Creativity" initiative aims to empower citizens to use causal loop diagrams to see the system that is their community. This enables them to have more meaningful conversations, identify leverage points, make informed choices and act together to become more creative and resilient learning communities. Our aim is to take this one idea to one million neighbourhoods - one...
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0:28 +Q

Cave Drawings and Campfire Conversations: Relocalizing Creativity in your Neighbourhood

Abstract: The “Relocalize Creativity" initiative aims to empower citizens to use causal loop diagrams to see the system that is their community. This enables them to have more meaningful conversations, identify leverage points, make informed choices and act together to become more creative and resilient learning communities. Our aim is to take this one idea to one million neighbourhoods - one...
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Nederlands
1:39

Case - de sustainability aanpak van Sweco

Als drijvende kracht achter het Sustainability Program binnen Sweco heeft Kathleen Van de Werf een uniek coaching weefsel opgezet. Het is erop gericht om de verschillende projecten binnen Sweco te koppelen aan een meer omvattende ambitie: Transforming Society Together . Sweco is Europa’s grootste ingenieurs- en advies- en ontwerpbureau dat vorm geeft aan de duurzame gemeenschappen en steden van de...
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1:39

Case - de sustainability aanpak van Sweco

Als drijvende kracht achter het Sustainability Program binnen Sweco heeft Kathleen Van de Werf een uniek coaching weefsel opgezet. Het is erop gericht om de verschillende projecten binnen Sweco te koppelen aan een meer omvattende ambitie: Transforming Society Together . Sweco is Europa’s grootste ingenieurs- en advies- en ontwerpbureau dat vorm geeft aan de duurzame gemeenschappen en steden van de...
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Engels
0:33 +Q

Discovering Organisational systems - helping leaders learn to see submerged patterns of co-creation and interdependence

The session explores the discovery of organisational systems, how we can see submerged patterns of co-creation and interdependence, as well as models and paradigms for change, and how those can be challenged. It touches on the difficulties leaders have in solving problems; those they think they have, rather than those they actually have, and how leaders miss systemic patterns within their...
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0:33 +Q

Discovering Organisational systems - helping leaders learn to see submerged patterns of co-creation and interdependence

The session explores the discovery of organisational systems, how we can see submerged patterns of co-creation and interdependence, as well as models and paradigms for change, and how those can be challenged. It touches on the difficulties leaders have in solving problems; those they think they have, rather than those they actually have, and how leaders miss systemic patterns within their...
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Engels
0:39 +Q

Mosaic Transformation

Being able to understanding how to 'change' a system, be it organisational, institutional or social, is vital for anyone involved in a systemic inquiry or intervention. The session will outline how this can be achieved, from a practical perspective.
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0:39 +Q

Mosaic Transformation

Being able to understanding how to 'change' a system, be it organisational, institutional or social, is vital for anyone involved in a systemic inquiry or intervention. The session will outline how this can be achieved, from a practical perspective.
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Engels
1:01

Whatever works - Adventures of a couple of systems consultants in IT organizations

In this light-hearted talk Ed van der Winden will share some of his experiences in trying to help IT departments move to a better place. A lot of systems models have played a role in this: the talk will focus on examples of their practical use. Some of the more well-known models that will be discussed in this talk will be: The Viable System Model, causal loop diagrams and Fernando Flores’...
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Engels
1:01

Whatever works - Adventures of a couple of systems consultants in IT organizations

In this light-hearted talk Ed van der Winden will share some of his experiences in trying to help IT departments move to a better place. A lot of systems models have played a role in this: the talk will focus on examples of their practical use. Some of the more well-known models that will be discussed in this talk will be: The Viable System Model, causal loop diagrams and Fernando Flores’...
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Engels
1:04

Shifting minds and shifting sands

In this talk, Simon will share some of his experiences in working with government-linked bodies in Asia and the Middle East seeking to harness new opportunities: to do new things or to do things differently. And yes: systems thinking can provide a solid basis for shaping and harnessing positive change, not just serve its traditional purpose of addressing the negative effects of ‘problematic...
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Engels
1:04

Shifting minds and shifting sands

In this talk, Simon will share some of his experiences in working with government-linked bodies in Asia and the Middle East seeking to harness new opportunities: to do new things or to do things differently. And yes: systems thinking can provide a solid basis for shaping and harnessing positive change, not just serve its traditional purpose of addressing the negative effects of ‘problematic...
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Engels
0:37 +Q

The purpose thing…

There is a split within Systems in both thinking and practice around purpose. Is it about ‘intention’ or is it about effects – the POSIWID position. This split is not limited to the field of systems, as an example it also splits the field of ethics, but for us in our discipline it has had enormous consequences. This talk will explore this from several angles – why the split exists, how different...
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0:37 +Q

The purpose thing…

There is a split within Systems in both thinking and practice around purpose. Is it about ‘intention’ or is it about effects – the POSIWID position. This split is not limited to the field of systems, as an example it also splits the field of ethics, but for us in our discipline it has had enormous consequences. This talk will explore this from several angles – why the split exists, how different...
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Engels
0:39 +Q

New Meta-systems Thinking for Regenerative Leadership

Socially, we see a trend in organizations toward being more conscious and sustainable. The number of companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint to zero is growing. To achieve this, new business and operational models are emerging, often focused on ecosystemic collaboration. Often a broad common ground is lacking, and one must cooperate in diversity. The leadership required for this...
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0:39 +Q

New Meta-systems Thinking for Regenerative Leadership

Socially, we see a trend in organizations toward being more conscious and sustainable. The number of companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint to zero is growing. To achieve this, new business and operational models are emerging, often focused on ecosystemic collaboration. Often a broad common ground is lacking, and one must cooperate in diversity. The leadership required for this...
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Engels
1:51

Systemic Posture: Five movements for successful relationships (workshop)

When it is time for relationships in the professional realm, switching from an individualistic or interventionist approach to one with a systemic posture is a great support in professional life as well as a “life rule” for any relationship in a healthy, truthful, harmonious and effective and productive, creative way. Lucia's workshop took participants through a number of thoughts about inter...
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1:51

Systemic Posture: Five movements for successful relationships (workshop)

When it is time for relationships in the professional realm, switching from an individualistic or interventionist approach to one with a systemic posture is a great support in professional life as well as a “life rule” for any relationship in a healthy, truthful, harmonious and effective and productive, creative way. Lucia's workshop took participants through a number of thoughts about inter...
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Engels
1:02

Epistemology, Agnotology and Systems Thinking practice

Epistemology (theory of knowledge) addresses several questions which are pertinent to Systems Thinking practice. For example, social epistemology is concerned with epistemic communities of practice, including the formation and crossing of disciplinary boundaries, the development of localised epistemic standards relating to the purpose of the discipline, and the relationship between consensus...
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1:02

Epistemology, Agnotology and Systems Thinking practice

Epistemology (theory of knowledge) addresses several questions which are pertinent to Systems Thinking practice. For example, social epistemology is concerned with epistemic communities of practice, including the formation and crossing of disciplinary boundaries, the development of localised epistemic standards relating to the purpose of the discipline, and the relationship between consensus...
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Critical Thinking: an argument clinic

Methods such as Critical Systems Heuristics and Boundary Critique use the idea of evaluation and assessment in specific ways, within those approaches. However, what does critique mean, why do we use it, and how is critical thinking useful or important for Systems Thinking practitioners?
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Critical Thinking: an argument clinic

Methods such as Critical Systems Heuristics and Boundary Critique use the idea of evaluation and assessment in specific ways, within those approaches. However, what does critique mean, why do we use it, and how is critical thinking useful or important for Systems Thinking practitioners?
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Engels
0:56

Meta Causal Loop Modelling

Standard Causal Loop Diagrams from systems dynamics are very effective tools for describing and structuring complex problems. It enables conversations and brings different perspectives into the analysis for improving the decision-making process. However, Causal Loop Diagrams have three main limitations, i) The nature of the relationships prevents integrating people into the model effectively, ii)...
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0:56

Meta Causal Loop Modelling

Standard Causal Loop Diagrams from systems dynamics are very effective tools for describing and structuring complex problems. It enables conversations and brings different perspectives into the analysis for improving the decision-making process. However, Causal Loop Diagrams have three main limitations, i) The nature of the relationships prevents integrating people into the model effectively, ii)...
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Nederlands
1:37

Corporate activisme: hoe kan je het verschil maken in change projecten

Al decennialang zijn er discussies hoe veranderingen succesvoller kunnen zijn als het om taaie vraagstukken gaat. Veranderprojecten schieten te kort als de verandering fundamenteel is, mensen betreft en duurzaam moet verankerd worden. 'De mensen zijn niet mee', zegt men dan. Directies en bestuurders voelen zich vaak onmachtig. Fusies, reorganisaties, digitalisering, retentiebeleid, wachtlijsten...
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1:37

Corporate activisme: hoe kan je het verschil maken in change projecten

Al decennialang zijn er discussies hoe veranderingen succesvoller kunnen zijn als het om taaie vraagstukken gaat. Veranderprojecten schieten te kort als de verandering fundamenteel is, mensen betreft en duurzaam moet verankerd worden. 'De mensen zijn niet mee', zegt men dan. Directies en bestuurders voelen zich vaak onmachtig. Fusies, reorganisaties, digitalisering, retentiebeleid, wachtlijsten...
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Engels
0:40

How Can We Lead Transformative Change

Gioia (pron. Joya) Caminada will illustrate a model for leading transformative change based on the human dimensions of acting, feeling, being and thinking she designed drawing from psychologist Paul Watzlawick’s theory of transformative change. She will use the case study of Colombia’s Escuela Nueva (new school) system as an example of transformation within a complex system. Paul Watzlawick was a...
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0:40

How Can We Lead Transformative Change

Gioia (pron. Joya) Caminada will illustrate a model for leading transformative change based on the human dimensions of acting, feeling, being and thinking she designed drawing from psychologist Paul Watzlawick’s theory of transformative change. She will use the case study of Colombia’s Escuela Nueva (new school) system as an example of transformation within a complex system. Paul Watzlawick was a...
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Engels
0:40 +Q

Hospital management from a systemic perspective, using VSM

A case study, using the Viable Systems Model, exploring management problems of increasing complexity in a merger of several municipal hospitals. After a short introduction of VSM, different management structures and tools of hospital management (senior management, risk, quality, controlling, etc.) are mapped to the VSM systems. Special emphasis is placed on the interaction of different systems as...
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0:40 +Q

Hospital management from a systemic perspective, using VSM

A case study, using the Viable Systems Model, exploring management problems of increasing complexity in a merger of several municipal hospitals. After a short introduction of VSM, different management structures and tools of hospital management (senior management, risk, quality, controlling, etc.) are mapped to the VSM systems. Special emphasis is placed on the interaction of different systems as...
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Engels
0:50

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

The global food system suffers from some of the same vulnerabilities as the global finance system in the approach to 2008. Policy makers have ignored repeated warnings in the scientific literature that it is losing its resilience. The amplification of shocks to the system is likely to explain one of the most disturbing of all global trends: following decades in which chronic hunger declined, since...
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0:50

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

The global food system suffers from some of the same vulnerabilities as the global finance system in the approach to 2008. Policy makers have ignored repeated warnings in the scientific literature that it is losing its resilience. The amplification of shocks to the system is likely to explain one of the most disturbing of all global trends: following decades in which chronic hunger declined, since...
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Engels
0:34 +Q

Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations

Organisations looking to follow strategies for social or environmental sustainable operation need to make sure that their people have the necessary knowledge and skills to enable this to happen. The complexity of the sustainability challenge makes systems thinking a powerful tool to use in developing learning and development strategies. Drawing on his recently published book, "Learning strategies...
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0:34 +Q

Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations

Organisations looking to follow strategies for social or environmental sustainable operation need to make sure that their people have the necessary knowledge and skills to enable this to happen. The complexity of the sustainability challenge makes systems thinking a powerful tool to use in developing learning and development strategies. Drawing on his recently published book, "Learning strategies...
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Duits
1:05

Krankenhausführung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht am Beispiel von VSM

Vortrag von Matvei Tobman, Chirung und Risikomanager im Krankenhaus. Nach einer kurzen Vorstellung des VSM als zentrale Struktur des Vortrags, werden verschiedene Führungsstrukturen und Tools des Krankenhausmana-gements (GF, Risikomanagement, QM, Controlling usw.) den VSM-Systemen zugeordnet. Besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Systeme sowie dem Einfluss von...
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Duits
1:05

Krankenhausführung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht am Beispiel von VSM

Vortrag von Matvei Tobman, Chirung und Risikomanager im Krankenhaus. Nach einer kurzen Vorstellung des VSM als zentrale Struktur des Vortrags, werden verschiedene Führungsstrukturen und Tools des Krankenhausmana-gements (GF, Risikomanagement, QM, Controlling usw.) den VSM-Systemen zugeordnet. Besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Systeme sowie dem Einfluss von...
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Engels
1:23

Systemic Transformations to Sustainable Futures

Speakers: Anne Pender, University College Dublin; and Dr. Tadhg O’Mahoney, Research Fellow at Dublin City University Centre for Climate & Society, and an expert advisor at the Finland Futures Research Centre.
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1:23

Systemic Transformations to Sustainable Futures

Speakers: Anne Pender, University College Dublin; and Dr. Tadhg O’Mahoney, Research Fellow at Dublin City University Centre for Climate & Society, and an expert advisor at the Finland Futures Research Centre.
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Nederlands
1:45

Viability beyond survival

Viability beyond survival In deze sessie zal Jan samen met de deelnemers stilstaan bij vier vragen. (1) Is ‘survival’ het algemene doel van organisaties? Deze vraag is relevant, want ze stelt het waarom van organisaties ter discussie (of dat nu profit, not-for-profit of overheidsorganisaties zijn). Meestal wordt op de vraag naar het algemene doel van organisaties als antwoord gegeven: ‘survival’...
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1:45

Viability beyond survival

Viability beyond survival In deze sessie zal Jan samen met de deelnemers stilstaan bij vier vragen. (1) Is ‘survival’ het algemene doel van organisaties? Deze vraag is relevant, want ze stelt het waarom van organisaties ter discussie (of dat nu profit, not-for-profit of overheidsorganisaties zijn). Meestal wordt op de vraag naar het algemene doel van organisaties als antwoord gegeven: ‘survival’...
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Engels
0:35+0:28 +Q

Natural science approach to studying the emergent organization of systems

The talk will be in two sections, the first on the emerging organization of systems as they grow. The second will be on ways of a) leaving them alone or b) helping them steer. So far, science has given less attention to how nature works by itself, giving much more to how people can make rules for controlling it, and that seems to be a principal reason for our current global crisis. Part 1. The...
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Engels
0:35+0:28 +Q

Natural science approach to studying the emergent organization of systems

The talk will be in two sections, the first on the emerging organization of systems as they grow. The second will be on ways of a) leaving them alone or b) helping them steer. So far, science has given less attention to how nature works by itself, giving much more to how people can make rules for controlling it, and that seems to be a principal reason for our current global crisis. Part 1. The...
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Engels
1:17 +Q

Thinking about systems when designing solutions with emerging technologies

Systems + Design + Data. Is this the formula to develop solutions that respond to the complex problems we face? Nur Karadeniz, in our second international session, will talk to us about how she uses systems thinking in the design process. Activate subtitles and automatic translation to see them in Spanish.
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Engels
1:17 +Q

Thinking about systems when designing solutions with emerging technologies

Systems + Design + Data. Is this the formula to develop solutions that respond to the complex problems we face? Nur Karadeniz, in our second international session, will talk to us about how she uses systems thinking in the design process. Activate subtitles and automatic translation to see them in Spanish.
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Engels
0:33 +Q

A Systems Approach to Investigation and Problem Solving

The terms ‘Accident’ and ‘Incident’, while in general accepted usage, are not helpful to professional in-company investigators. The proposition is that it is more useful to consider such events as failures of ‘Human Activity Systems’. This methodology, Kelvin TOP-SET, was initially developed to give offshore oil managers a means of investigation that was relatively easy to learn and apply...
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A Systems Approach to Investigation and Problem Solving

The terms ‘Accident’ and ‘Incident’, while in general accepted usage, are not helpful to professional in-company investigators. The proposition is that it is more useful to consider such events as failures of ‘Human Activity Systems’. This methodology, Kelvin TOP-SET, was initially developed to give offshore oil managers a means of investigation that was relatively easy to learn and apply...
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0:40 +Q

How visual representation of Informal Networks can help people in organisations address wicked problems

This session presents how the reality of informal networks within organisations and across collaborating entities can be presented visually. Also, using case study material, how these dynamic maps are able to generate insights that enable groups and teams to overcome challenges and realise opportunities that hitherto would be invisible to them. We hope this session will stimulate an interesting...
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0:40 +Q

How visual representation of Informal Networks can help people in organisations address wicked problems

This session presents how the reality of informal networks within organisations and across collaborating entities can be presented visually. Also, using case study material, how these dynamic maps are able to generate insights that enable groups and teams to overcome challenges and realise opportunities that hitherto would be invisible to them. We hope this session will stimulate an interesting...
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Spaans
0:37

Introducción al diseño de mapas sistémicos

Bárbara López nos acerca a la construcción de mapas sistémicos como herramienta para describir la realidad, facilitar conversaciones y construir una visión compartida sobre situaciones complejas. Comenzará acercándonos al trabajo de Donella Meadows y la dinámica de sistemas, como marco del que nacen los diagramas causales, para pasar la parte práctica de la sesión donde construiremos paso a paso...
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0:37

Introducción al diseño de mapas sistémicos

Bárbara López nos acerca a la construcción de mapas sistémicos como herramienta para describir la realidad, facilitar conversaciones y construir una visión compartida sobre situaciones complejas. Comenzará acercándonos al trabajo de Donella Meadows y la dinámica de sistemas, como marco del que nacen los diagramas causales, para pasar la parte práctica de la sesión donde construiremos paso a paso...
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Engels
0:43 +Q

Moving beyond Value Conflicts: Systems Thinking in Action

Value conflicts can become entrenched in destructive patterns of mutual stigmatization, which inhibit the emergence of new understandings of the situation and actions for improvement. In extreme cases, such patterns can even lead to violence. This presentation offers a new systems theory of value conflict, which suggests the possibility of three different strategies for intervention: supporting...
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0:43 +Q

Moving beyond Value Conflicts: Systems Thinking in Action

Value conflicts can become entrenched in destructive patterns of mutual stigmatization, which inhibit the emergence of new understandings of the situation and actions for improvement. In extreme cases, such patterns can even lead to violence. This presentation offers a new systems theory of value conflict, which suggests the possibility of three different strategies for intervention: supporting...
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Engels
0:35

Human Aspects of Systems - Map of Meaningful Work

I have a particular interest in the human aspect of systems, and the presentation is around the theme of what might serve as a map to help us navigate systems. The session will be based on the Map of Meaningful Work, a well validated tool for such purposes.
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0:35

Human Aspects of Systems - Map of Meaningful Work

I have a particular interest in the human aspect of systems, and the presentation is around the theme of what might serve as a map to help us navigate systems. The session will be based on the Map of Meaningful Work, a well validated tool for such purposes.
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Engels
0:30+0:30+0:30+0:30

La dinámica del diálogo trabajando con el Modelo de Sistema Viable

Dividimos esta sesión en 4 capítulos para flexibilizar su consulta. Puedes acceder a la traducción automática de Yotube. Te pedimos disculpas de antemano por los pequeños errores que se puedan producir en la interpretación del contenido. ¿Cómo pueden las personas dar sentido a la complejidad a la que se enfrentan en sus organizaciones?¿hay alguna forma mejor de organizar el trabajo que la división...
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0:30+0:30+0:30+0:30

La dinámica del diálogo trabajando con el Modelo de Sistema Viable

Dividimos esta sesión en 4 capítulos para flexibilizar su consulta. Puedes acceder a la traducción automática de Yotube. Te pedimos disculpas de antemano por los pequeños errores que se puedan producir en la interpretación del contenido. ¿Cómo pueden las personas dar sentido a la complejidad a la que se enfrentan en sus organizaciones?¿hay alguna forma mejor de organizar el trabajo que la división...
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1:40

Designing Democracy

I have yet to find the word ‘cybernetics’ in mainstream writing on government and yet the comparison to steering a ship appears in the writing of Plato 2,500 years ago on government, and the word itself in the writing of Ampere 300 years ago. Beer’s cybernetic approach to systems thinking upon which he based his VSM gives a foundation from which I explore the purpose and structure of democracy.
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1:40

Designing Democracy

I have yet to find the word ‘cybernetics’ in mainstream writing on government and yet the comparison to steering a ship appears in the writing of Plato 2,500 years ago on government, and the word itself in the writing of Ampere 300 years ago. Beer’s cybernetic approach to systems thinking upon which he based his VSM gives a foundation from which I explore the purpose and structure of democracy.
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A case study of warping and weaving systems methods

Practitioners always need to be alive to the tension between “paralysis through analysis” and JFDI. This talk is a personal retrospective on Niki’s experience of supporting a government policy lead take the first steps in establishing a national operational capability and seeking to get that balance right. She will describe the approach she took, weaving a variety of systems thinking methods...
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A case study of warping and weaving systems methods

Practitioners always need to be alive to the tension between “paralysis through analysis” and JFDI. This talk is a personal retrospective on Niki’s experience of supporting a government policy lead take the first steps in establishing a national operational capability and seeking to get that balance right. She will describe the approach she took, weaving a variety of systems thinking methods...
Confidential – Members Only
Engels
1:03 +Q

Autopoiesis - Simplified translation from Biology to Business

In recent decades, many people perceive that changes in professional life are accelerating. The world is becoming more and more interconnected and complex. Everything seems to be connected to everything else. Because of these changes, decisions are becoming increasingly decentralized. Employees are being given entrepreneurial responsibility. Companies expect their employees to demonstrate the same...
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1:03 +Q

Autopoiesis - Simplified translation from Biology to Business

In recent decades, many people perceive that changes in professional life are accelerating. The world is becoming more and more interconnected and complex. Everything seems to be connected to everything else. Because of these changes, decisions are becoming increasingly decentralized. Employees are being given entrepreneurial responsibility. Companies expect their employees to demonstrate the same...
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Critical Social Learning Systems: an inquiry, case study and some learning

Social learning is a set of principles, activities and behaviours, relating to how people collaborate and co-operate to learn in a variety of situations within institutional and organisational structures. This presentation explores its principles and methods, as well as providing an illustration of how it has been applied in a micro-enterprise environment, where individuals or small organisations...
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Critical Social Learning Systems: an inquiry, case study and some learning

Social learning is a set of principles, activities and behaviours, relating to how people collaborate and co-operate to learn in a variety of situations within institutional and organisational structures. This presentation explores its principles and methods, as well as providing an illustration of how it has been applied in a micro-enterprise environment, where individuals or small organisations...
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0:38 +Q

When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes Learning

When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes Learning Practitioners coming to the systems sciences and/or systems thinking have an interest in “systems change(s)”. Many come from premise that that change occurs as “unfreeze-move-refreeze”, misattributed to Kurt Lewin. A more reflective view of systems changes not only sees distinctions between the...
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When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes Learning

When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes Learning Practitioners coming to the systems sciences and/or systems thinking have an interest in “systems change(s)”. Many come from premise that that change occurs as “unfreeze-move-refreeze”, misattributed to Kurt Lewin. A more reflective view of systems changes not only sees distinctions between the...
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