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Systems Thinking for Human-AI Collaboration: Navigating Complexity through Reflective Practice and Quantum Perspectives
In this presentation, I set out to show how we might reframe the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence by using systems thinking and quantum-informed perspectives. Rather than treating AI as a standalone optimisation tool, I argued for a view of AI as a co-evolving partner within socio-technical systems. I drew on critical systems methods, rich pictures, and system dynamics...
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Systems Thinking for Human-AI Collaboration: Navigating Complexity through Reflective Practice and Quantum Perspectives
In this presentation, I set out to show how we might reframe the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence by using systems thinking and quantum-informed perspectives. Rather than treating AI as a standalone optimisation tool, I argued for a view of AI as a co-evolving partner within socio-technical systems. I drew on critical systems methods, rich pictures, and system dynamics...
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Critical System Heuristics (CSH) - workshop at SysPrac25
In complex organisational systems, the perspectives we choose to include—or exclude—shape the quality and fairness of our decisions. This workshop introduces participants to Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) and the use of boundary judgements to make sense of selectivity and partiality in system design and change. Through the Calls4U case study, participants explore how innovation and AI adoption...
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Critical System Heuristics (CSH) - workshop at SysPrac25
In complex organisational systems, the perspectives we choose to include—or exclude—shape the quality and fairness of our decisions. This workshop introduces participants to Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) and the use of boundary judgements to make sense of selectivity and partiality in system design and change. Through the Calls4U case study, participants explore how innovation and AI adoption...
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Patterns of Strategy (POS) - workshop at SysPrac25
The Patterns of Strategy Workshop introduces a practical way of thinking about strategy developed by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh. Instead of static plans, it explores how organisations co-evolve with their environment, focusing on the dynamics of relationships, structural couplings, and shifts in power, time, and fit. The workshop helps leaders see strategy as an emergent process—shaped...
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Patterns of Strategy (POS) - workshop at SysPrac25
The Patterns of Strategy Workshop introduces a practical way of thinking about strategy developed by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh. Instead of static plans, it explores how organisations co-evolve with their environment, focusing on the dynamics of relationships, structural couplings, and shifts in power, time, and fit. The workshop helps leaders see strategy as an emergent process—shaped...
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Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads
This talk outlines the core concepts of Pacing Changes which sees systems as lines (or threads) weaving through time rhythmically, as opposed to a spatial layout. This reframe moves "systems change" away from a dominant "freeze-change-unfreeze" approach and instead focuses on the "pace" of an unfolding texture to discern when and where to take action. The presentation prompts audiences to consider...
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Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads
This talk outlines the core concepts of Pacing Changes which sees systems as lines (or threads) weaving through time rhythmically, as opposed to a spatial layout. This reframe moves "systems change" away from a dominant "freeze-change-unfreeze" approach and instead focuses on the "pace" of an unfolding texture to discern when and where to take action. The presentation prompts audiences to consider...
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Shifting Mindsets At This Pivotal Time
We are at a pivotal time of fundamental shapeshifting - where we get to choose which path we go on next in the midst of uncertainty and chaos. What we do now matters like never before and what we decide will have major consequences for the generations to come. There has been a lot of focus on technologies, new governance and compliance standards. But there is much less reflection and talk about...
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Shifting Mindsets At This Pivotal Time
We are at a pivotal time of fundamental shapeshifting - where we get to choose which path we go on next in the midst of uncertainty and chaos. What we do now matters like never before and what we decide will have major consequences for the generations to come. There has been a lot of focus on technologies, new governance and compliance standards. But there is much less reflection and talk about...
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SSM/VSM Case Study
From grievance to growth in systems thinking practice
How can systems thinking help turn frustration into insight and organisational learning? This reflective case study follows a charity leader’s journey from personal grievance to systemic understanding. Using Soft Systems Methodology, the Viable System Model and feedback loops, Nicola explores how inquiry and reflection can transform tensions, improve governance and reconnect purpose with practice...
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From grievance to growth in systems thinking practice
How can systems thinking help turn frustration into insight and organisational learning? This reflective case study follows a charity leader’s journey from personal grievance to systemic understanding. Using Soft Systems Methodology, the Viable System Model and feedback loops, Nicola explores how inquiry and reflection can transform tensions, improve governance and reconnect purpose with practice...
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How can we strengthen the connection between relational leadership and practice with systems thinking
My presentation explores how we can better connect systems thinking with relational practice to create more human, adaptive, and learning organisations. It draws on a case study showing Somerset’s journey which describes the 'magic' when we align system understanding (using systems thinking methods, tools and methodologies in particular) with how we actually work within it especially through high...
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How can we strengthen the connection between relational leadership and practice with systems thinking
My presentation explores how we can better connect systems thinking with relational practice to create more human, adaptive, and learning organisations. It draws on a case study showing Somerset’s journey which describes the 'magic' when we align system understanding (using systems thinking methods, tools and methodologies in particular) with how we actually work within it especially through high...
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SSM/CSH/VSM Case Study
A Soft and Critical Systems approach exploring Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) challenges in a Research Project Team
PROJECT A Soft and Critical Systems approach exploring Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) challenges in a Research Project Team PRACTITIONER Emilia Slawkowska APPROX. DATE 2023/24 SITUATION AND CONTEXT EDI implementation requires a holistic and systematic approach addressing root causes whilst setting clear goals and providing actionable solutions. This intervention focused on a Research...
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A Soft and Critical Systems approach exploring Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) challenges in a Research Project Team
PROJECT A Soft and Critical Systems approach exploring Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) challenges in a Research Project Team PRACTITIONER Emilia Slawkowska APPROX. DATE 2023/24 SITUATION AND CONTEXT EDI implementation requires a holistic and systematic approach addressing root causes whilst setting clear goals and providing actionable solutions. This intervention focused on a Research...
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Applying systems thinking approaches to promote the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families.
This presentation outlines the development of the North Star Cancer Collective, a collaboration of UK charities applying systems thinking to improve the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families. Emerging from partnerships in service delivery, the initiative evolved into a collective impact model grounded in shared evidence, lived experience, and a common...
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Applying systems thinking approaches to promote the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families.
This presentation outlines the development of the North Star Cancer Collective, a collaboration of UK charities applying systems thinking to improve the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families. Emerging from partnerships in service delivery, the initiative evolved into a collective impact model grounded in shared evidence, lived experience, and a common...
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The Future of Systems Thinking - 'fireside chat' at SysPrac25
Patrick and Mike held an informal 'fireside chat' on the future of systems thinking, blending humour with serious reflection. They traced the development of the field using adoption life-cycle models, noting the shift from early innovators and visionaries to a broader, more risk-averse early majority. A central theme was the tension between accessibility and depth: for systems thinking to reach...
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The Future of Systems Thinking - 'fireside chat' at SysPrac25
Patrick and Mike held an informal 'fireside chat' on the future of systems thinking, blending humour with serious reflection. They traced the development of the field using adoption life-cycle models, noting the shift from early innovators and visionaries to a broader, more risk-averse early majority. A central theme was the tension between accessibility and depth: for systems thinking to reach...
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Viable system model as an organisational framework for the integration of different AI applications within the healthcare organisations
This presentation explores the Viable System Model (VSM) as a framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare organizations. Drawing from clinical experience and healthcare risk management, the speaker emphasizes that every medical institution requires a coherent AI strategy aligned with its strengths and weaknesses. The VSM, developed by Stafford Beer, models...
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Viable system model as an organisational framework for the integration of different AI applications within the healthcare organisations
This presentation explores the Viable System Model (VSM) as a framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare organizations. Drawing from clinical experience and healthcare risk management, the speaker emphasizes that every medical institution requires a coherent AI strategy aligned with its strengths and weaknesses. The VSM, developed by Stafford Beer, models...
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VSM Case Study
Let’s Talk Safety - Bringing Safety into Systems Thinking, and Systems Thinking into Safety
PROJECT Let’s Talk Safety - Bringing Safety into Systems Thinking, and Systems Thinking into Safety PRACTITIONER Robin Stowell (Apprentice) SITUATION AND CONTEXT The traditional occupational safety profession is largely dominated by a reductionist risk management paradigm. This conventional approach focuses heavily on hazard identification, risk registers, regulatory compliance, and post-incident...
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Let’s Talk Safety - Bringing Safety into Systems Thinking, and Systems Thinking into Safety
PROJECT Let’s Talk Safety - Bringing Safety into Systems Thinking, and Systems Thinking into Safety PRACTITIONER Robin Stowell (Apprentice) SITUATION AND CONTEXT The traditional occupational safety profession is largely dominated by a reductionist risk management paradigm. This conventional approach focuses heavily on hazard identification, risk registers, regulatory compliance, and post-incident...
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2025 SCiO Annual General Meeting - members only
Recording of the SCiO 2025 Annual General Meeting - for members. Note that the microphone was not working properly for the first half of the meeting and so this part is subtitled. A 'theoretical' slide set is attached as well as the minutes.
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2025 SCiO Annual General Meeting - members only
Recording of the SCiO 2025 Annual General Meeting - for members. Note that the microphone was not working properly for the first half of the meeting and so this part is subtitled. A 'theoretical' slide set is attached as well as the minutes.
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Building and Sustaining Complexity Capabilities in Public Service Organisations
Chris describes how his research explores means of introducing systems thinking to professionals from diverse disciplines as they begin their learning journeys. The support of community is a vital ingredient as they begin building the capability to help their organisations work more effectively with complex challenges, however this presentation emphasises how learning can be guided by contextual...
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Building and Sustaining Complexity Capabilities in Public Service Organisations
Chris describes how his research explores means of introducing systems thinking to professionals from diverse disciplines as they begin their learning journeys. The support of community is a vital ingredient as they begin building the capability to help their organisations work more effectively with complex challenges, however this presentation emphasises how learning can be guided by contextual...
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Humanising Systems - workshop at SysPrac25
The workshop “ Humanizing Systems” invited participants to explore how organizations can shift from a mechanistic focus on efficiency toward regenerative ways of working. Drawing on your book Humanizing the Corporation: A Regenerative Leadership Playbook, Jan introduced how systems theory and developmental science reveal that collaboration emerges not from alignment alone, but from the dynamic...
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Humanising Systems - workshop at SysPrac25
The workshop “ Humanizing Systems” invited participants to explore how organizations can shift from a mechanistic focus on efficiency toward regenerative ways of working. Drawing on your book Humanizing the Corporation: A Regenerative Leadership Playbook, Jan introduced how systems theory and developmental science reveal that collaboration emerges not from alignment alone, but from the dynamic...
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The Machinery, the Mindset and the Mission: systems thinking in the machinery of Government and why it matters - keynote at SysPrac25
This talk offers a candid exploration of systems thinking within the UK Government, delivered from the unique perspective of a senior civil servant. Drawing on practical examples such as natural flood risk management and the Troubled Families programme, the speaker illustrates both the power and the challenges of applying systemic approaches to complex public sector problems. The abstract...
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The Machinery, the Mindset and the Mission: systems thinking in the machinery of Government and why it matters - keynote at SysPrac25
This talk offers a candid exploration of systems thinking within the UK Government, delivered from the unique perspective of a senior civil servant. Drawing on practical examples such as natural flood risk management and the Troubled Families programme, the speaker illustrates both the power and the challenges of applying systemic approaches to complex public sector problems. The abstract...
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Systems Laws Case Study
Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system
PROJECT Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system. PRACTITIONER Gavin Roberts DATE 2023-2025 CONTEXT AND SYSTEM OF INTEREST (SOI) Multiple Disadvantage (MD) refers to experiencing several complex issues simultaneously, such as homelessness, substance use, mental health challenges ( see article attachment for figures)...
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Systems Laws Case Study
Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system
PROJECT Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system. PRACTITIONER Gavin Roberts DATE 2023-2025 CONTEXT AND SYSTEM OF INTEREST (SOI) Multiple Disadvantage (MD) refers to experiencing several complex issues simultaneously, such as homelessness, substance use, mental health challenges ( see article attachment for figures)...
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Navigating problems, revealing systems, and asking beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
James Stauch spoke about his recently published book, The 55 Minutes, the title of which draws inspiration from Albert Einstein's aphorism about spending 55 minutes defining a problem. The book helps fill a gap between scholarly insight - which can be less accessible to practitioners - and the experience-informed practice of systems understanding within a wide range of organizational, industry...
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Navigating problems, revealing systems, and asking beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
James Stauch spoke about his recently published book, The 55 Minutes, the title of which draws inspiration from Albert Einstein's aphorism about spending 55 minutes defining a problem. The book helps fill a gap between scholarly insight - which can be less accessible to practitioners - and the experience-informed practice of systems understanding within a wide range of organizational, industry...
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Complexity Governance: Structural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Adaptive Institutions
This talk is about the "complexity gap" and general governance crisis created by the increasing complexity and uncertainty of the world at all levels of the society (individuals, organizations, governments and multinational institutions). It introduces a general challenge-capacity framework based on Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety for analyzing the governance crisis and developing more adaptive...
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Complexity Governance: Structural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Adaptive Institutions
This talk is about the "complexity gap" and general governance crisis created by the increasing complexity and uncertainty of the world at all levels of the society (individuals, organizations, governments and multinational institutions). It introduces a general challenge-capacity framework based on Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety for analyzing the governance crisis and developing more adaptive...
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PoS Case Study
Patterns of Strategy: partnering in a tender process
PROJECT Patterns of Strategy: partnering in a tender process INTERVENTION CONTEXT VM is small consultancy that helps clients create organisational change through visual thinking and semantic data. One of our public infrastructure clients put out a tender for five-year packages of work to support their digital teams. The tender touched on work we currently delivered, with packages of work so large...
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Patterns of Strategy: partnering in a tender process
PROJECT Patterns of Strategy: partnering in a tender process INTERVENTION CONTEXT VM is small consultancy that helps clients create organisational change through visual thinking and semantic data. One of our public infrastructure clients put out a tender for five-year packages of work to support their digital teams. The tender touched on work we currently delivered, with packages of work so large...
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Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability
Using a causal loop diagram for designing points of intervention in the OODA Loop to enhance the competencies for protecting yourself, other around you and your business. Translating this into a non-systems model for designing the training delivery of the competencies for a non-systems thinking participants. (Bringing safety into systems thinking and taking systems thinking into safety).
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Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability
Using a causal loop diagram for designing points of intervention in the OODA Loop to enhance the competencies for protecting yourself, other around you and your business. Translating this into a non-systems model for designing the training delivery of the competencies for a non-systems thinking participants. (Bringing safety into systems thinking and taking systems thinking into safety).
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Ignoring the evidence? Systems Thinking on why we don't learn from building Performance
This research investigates why post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is not mainstream practice in the built environment, despite its potential to bridge the gap between building design expectations and real-world performance. Buildings often fail to deliver on energy efficiency, comfort, and usability, yet systemic barriers—including supply chain fragmentation, short-term contracting, weak...
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Ignoring the evidence? Systems Thinking on why we don't learn from building Performance
This research investigates why post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is not mainstream practice in the built environment, despite its potential to bridge the gap between building design expectations and real-world performance. Buildings often fail to deliver on energy efficiency, comfort, and usability, yet systemic barriers—including supply chain fragmentation, short-term contracting, weak...
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AI for Systems Change: The Promises and Pitfalls of Augmenting the Practice of Systemic Investing
This talk first outlines the practice of systemic investing, and then presents the capabilities, limitations, so-called externalities, and rhetorical framings of AI in general. On this basis, the ways in which AI is both conceptually and empirically able to augment the practice of systemic investing is then presented, highlighting the tensions that result from AI augmentations, and concluding with...
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AI for Systems Change: The Promises and Pitfalls of Augmenting the Practice of Systemic Investing
This talk first outlines the practice of systemic investing, and then presents the capabilities, limitations, so-called externalities, and rhetorical framings of AI in general. On this basis, the ways in which AI is both conceptually and empirically able to augment the practice of systemic investing is then presented, highlighting the tensions that result from AI augmentations, and concluding with...
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CSH case study
How Communities can better support people living in asylum hotel accommodation
PROJECT How Communities can better support people living in asylum hotel accommodation. Situation & Context Across the Diocese of Westminster, churches and faith-based groups increasingly found themselves supporting asylum seekers housed in hotels under the UK asylum system. While volunteers are eager to help, many face restrictions in accessing the hotels and are overwhelmed by the magnitude and...
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CSH case study
How Communities can better support people living in asylum hotel accommodation
PROJECT How Communities can better support people living in asylum hotel accommodation. Situation & Context Across the Diocese of Westminster, churches and faith-based groups increasingly found themselves supporting asylum seekers housed in hotels under the UK asylum system. While volunteers are eager to help, many face restrictions in accessing the hotels and are overwhelmed by the magnitude and...
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Multi-method Case Study
Designing for Viability in a Politically Constrained System: A Multi-Method Intervention in Timetable Production
PROJECT Designing for Viability in a Politically Constrained System: A Multi-Method Intervention in Timetable Production PRACTITIONER Mike Jones, LBI Consulting CONTEXT Following the 2018 timetable crisis, Timetable Production (TTP) suffered persistent dysfunction: fragmented structure, firefighting culture, weak coordination, and a lack of strategic foresight. Despite previous restructures...
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Multi-method Case Study
Designing for Viability in a Politically Constrained System: A Multi-Method Intervention in Timetable Production
PROJECT Designing for Viability in a Politically Constrained System: A Multi-Method Intervention in Timetable Production PRACTITIONER Mike Jones, LBI Consulting CONTEXT Following the 2018 timetable crisis, Timetable Production (TTP) suffered persistent dysfunction: fragmented structure, firefighting culture, weak coordination, and a lack of strategic foresight. Despite previous restructures...
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The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos & Back again (2nd ed)
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 249 pp; Publisher: SCiO (2nd edition); ISBN 979-8298960878 2nd edition: If you feel as though the world has become more complex, you are not alone. There is a growing realisation of the need to deal with the complexity, uncertainty and speed of change of our world. These systemic factors increase the challenge for all of us and expose some traditional approaches which...
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The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos & Back again (2nd ed)
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 249 pp; Publisher: SCiO (2nd edition); ISBN 979-8298960878 2nd edition: If you feel as though the world has become more complex, you are not alone. There is a growing realisation of the need to deal with the complexity, uncertainty and speed of change of our world. These systemic factors increase the challenge for all of us and expose some traditional approaches which...
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The Ethics of Human Systems: Creating Economic Value with Impact for Good
RRP: £53.32 Hardback: 152 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1041093190 Addressing major social and ecological issues, this book establishes the field of ethics as a fundamental science that cannot be separated from economics and business. In particular, it redefines the nature of good investments which, besides being profitable, have to realize values as opposed to reinforcing the...
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The Ethics of Human Systems: Creating Economic Value with Impact for Good
RRP: £53.32 Hardback: 152 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1041093190 Addressing major social and ecological issues, this book establishes the field of ethics as a fundamental science that cannot be separated from economics and business. In particular, it redefines the nature of good investments which, besides being profitable, have to realize values as opposed to reinforcing the...
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Finding A New Rhythm: Exploring VSM for Social Change
This talk explores a new interpretation and extends Beer’s VSM model towards the application of social change in times of turbulence and uncertainty. Inspired by music design theory, this talk highlights the importance of creativity and finding your instrument for social innovation. Despair need not flourish. https://www.kim-mclear.com/
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Finding A New Rhythm: Exploring VSM for Social Change
This talk explores a new interpretation and extends Beer’s VSM model towards the application of social change in times of turbulence and uncertainty. Inspired by music design theory, this talk highlights the importance of creativity and finding your instrument for social innovation. Despair need not flourish. https://www.kim-mclear.com/
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The Process of Translating Systems Thinking into Real-World Platforms through Participatory System Dynamics Modelling
Translating Systems Thinking into practical, real-world applications can be challenging. How can we collaboratively create outcomes that are compelling enough to influence policy, or accessible enough for widespread adoption? What process can we follow to form systemic maps and transform these into actionable blueprints? In this session, Teun will guide us through the process of participatory...
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The Process of Translating Systems Thinking into Real-World Platforms through Participatory System Dynamics Modelling
Translating Systems Thinking into practical, real-world applications can be challenging. How can we collaboratively create outcomes that are compelling enough to influence policy, or accessible enough for widespread adoption? What process can we follow to form systemic maps and transform these into actionable blueprints? In this session, Teun will guide us through the process of participatory...
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Values In Action: A Critical Systems Heuristics Workbook
Values in Action is a hands-on, thought-provoking and practical workbook designed to equip people with tools to explore, question, and strengthen the ethical and practical foundations of their and others' decision-making. The purpose of the workbook is to enable you and others make well-grounded claims that whatever you are doing is the right thing to do. That claim to ‘rightness’ is, individually...
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Values In Action: A Critical Systems Heuristics Workbook
Values in Action is a hands-on, thought-provoking and practical workbook designed to equip people with tools to explore, question, and strengthen the ethical and practical foundations of their and others' decision-making. The purpose of the workbook is to enable you and others make well-grounded claims that whatever you are doing is the right thing to do. That claim to ‘rightness’ is, individually...
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The Theory of the Thread - Theory
The Theory of the Thread: A Unified Theoretical Foundation for Shared Meaning The Theory of the Thread is a structured conversational method designed to help groups move from scattered viewpoints to shared meaning. Its power lies in a simple but profound insight: when people slow down, listen deeply, and build on one another’s contributions rather than competing with them, a coherent direction...
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The Theory of the Thread - Theory
The Theory of the Thread: A Unified Theoretical Foundation for Shared Meaning The Theory of the Thread is a structured conversational method designed to help groups move from scattered viewpoints to shared meaning. Its power lies in a simple but profound insight: when people slow down, listen deeply, and build on one another’s contributions rather than competing with them, a coherent direction...
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Von Grundbegriffen und sozioökologischen Systemen
Transformationen wirksam begleiten zu können, erfordert inhärente Komplexität anzuerkennen und einen konstruktiven Umgang damit zu finden. In diesem Vortrag beleuchten wir die Prinzipien unserer Wahrnehmung und entdecken gemeinsam ein von C. S. Holling inspiriertes Modell organisatorischer Weiterentwicklung. Wir betrachten wie präzise Sprache und bewusste Perspektivwechsel entscheidend dazu...
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Von Grundbegriffen und sozioökologischen Systemen
Transformationen wirksam begleiten zu können, erfordert inhärente Komplexität anzuerkennen und einen konstruktiven Umgang damit zu finden. In diesem Vortrag beleuchten wir die Prinzipien unserer Wahrnehmung und entdecken gemeinsam ein von C. S. Holling inspiriertes Modell organisatorischer Weiterentwicklung. Wir betrachten wie präzise Sprache und bewusste Perspektivwechsel entscheidend dazu...
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Case Study
Cultural inquiry and complexity
PROJECT Cultural inquiry and complexity PRACTITIONER Benjamin Taylor, RedQuadrant APPROX. DATE 2017–ongoing SITUATION AND CONTEXT Many clients asked for ‘culture change’—but didn’t know what culture was or how it changed. Existing tools were either superficial or overly rigid. SYSTEM OF INTEREST Organisational culture as a dynamic, emergent system shaped by behaviours, stories, systems, and power...
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Cultural inquiry and complexity
PROJECT Cultural inquiry and complexity PRACTITIONER Benjamin Taylor, RedQuadrant APPROX. DATE 2017–ongoing SITUATION AND CONTEXT Many clients asked for ‘culture change’—but didn’t know what culture was or how it changed. Existing tools were either superficial or overly rigid. SYSTEM OF INTEREST Organisational culture as a dynamic, emergent system shaped by behaviours, stories, systems, and power...
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The 55 Minutes: An atlas to navigate problems, reveal systems, and ask beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
RRP: £18.41; Paperback: 572 pp; Publisher: Atco Spacelab; ISBN 978-1069483508 - also available as a FREE pdf download, follow link Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." This book is about how to use those metaphorical first fifty-five minutes wisely. If...
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The 55 Minutes: An atlas to navigate problems, reveal systems, and ask beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
RRP: £18.41; Paperback: 572 pp; Publisher: Atco Spacelab; ISBN 978-1069483508 - also available as a FREE pdf download, follow link Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." This book is about how to use those metaphorical first fifty-five minutes wisely. If...
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Practical Application of Systems Thinking to Enterprise Design
Organisations are “social activity systems”. People come together and create a system to produce products and services for other people to benefit from, either for the purposes of financial and/or social gain. This talk is about how we design these systems and on the discipline of Business Architecture and Target Operating Model design, or what is often today referred to as “Enterprise Design”...
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Practical Application of Systems Thinking to Enterprise Design
Organisations are “social activity systems”. People come together and create a system to produce products and services for other people to benefit from, either for the purposes of financial and/or social gain. This talk is about how we design these systems and on the discipline of Business Architecture and Target Operating Model design, or what is often today referred to as “Enterprise Design”...
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Concepts of Complexity
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing This book provides a very brief introduction to the topic of complexity and its application in various disciplines such as science, systems theory, cybernetics, management, and more. It presents fundamental theories and models that deepen the understanding of dynamics, interactions, and patterns in complex systems. Contributions by important...
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Concepts of Complexity
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing This book provides a very brief introduction to the topic of complexity and its application in various disciplines such as science, systems theory, cybernetics, management, and more. It presents fundamental theories and models that deepen the understanding of dynamics, interactions, and patterns in complex systems. Contributions by important...
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Konzepte der Komplexität: Eine sehr kurze Einführung
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing Dieses Buch bietet eine sehr kurze Einführung in das Themengebiet Komplexität und deren Anwendung in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Naturwissenschaften, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Management und mehr. Es stellt grundlegende Theorien und Modelle vor, die das Verständnis von Dynamiken, Interaktionen und Mustern in komplexen Systemen vertiefen...
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Konzepte der Komplexität: Eine sehr kurze Einführung
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing Dieses Buch bietet eine sehr kurze Einführung in das Themengebiet Komplexität und deren Anwendung in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Naturwissenschaften, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Management und mehr. Es stellt grundlegende Theorien und Modelle vor, die das Verständnis von Dynamiken, Interaktionen und Mustern in komplexen Systemen vertiefen...
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Viable Service Management - Operational Loops
Steve looks into the operations space of service management systems where the user interfaces with the organisation. The focus is on three particular 'services': IT services, car repairs, and healthcare; and shows the similarities and differences in how they manage the different types of 'repair' (cybernetic) loops. Of particular interest is how the user is drawn into the organisation for these...
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Viable Service Management - Operational Loops
Steve looks into the operations space of service management systems where the user interfaces with the organisation. The focus is on three particular 'services': IT services, car repairs, and healthcare; and shows the similarities and differences in how they manage the different types of 'repair' (cybernetic) loops. Of particular interest is how the user is drawn into the organisation for these...
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Opening Address: Public sector innovation capacity: what influences public officials’ ability to learn, innovate and adapt to change?
Dr. Piret Tõnurist is a senior programme manager at the OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), GOV/INDIGO. She leads OECD’s work on government innovation and is the co-founder of the cross-directorate Mission Action Lab. In previous years she managed OPSI’s work programme on systems thinking and created the work stream on anticipatory governance. Piret holds a research fellowship at...
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Opening Address: Public sector innovation capacity: what influences public officials’ ability to learn, innovate and adapt to change?
Dr. Piret Tõnurist is a senior programme manager at the OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), GOV/INDIGO. She leads OECD’s work on government innovation and is the co-founder of the cross-directorate Mission Action Lab. In previous years she managed OPSI’s work programme on systems thinking and created the work stream on anticipatory governance. Piret holds a research fellowship at...
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Visualizations of the event
The images may be used and shared, provided that the author is credited as Annika Varjonen / Visual Impact and the name of the event – Learning Finland? Systemic Challenges and Opportunities – is mentioned alongside.
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Visualizations of the event
The images may be used and shared, provided that the author is credited as Annika Varjonen / Visual Impact and the name of the event – Learning Finland? Systemic Challenges and Opportunities – is mentioned alongside.
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Why Finland seems well placed to enact systemic governance?
Ray Ison is Professor Emeritus of Systems at the UK Open University (OU), where he has contributed to systems thinking and practice since 1994. He played a key role in OU’s Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) program, leading research, teaching, and the professionalization of Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeships. His research spans sustainability, governance, and learning systems...
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Why Finland seems well placed to enact systemic governance?
Ray Ison is Professor Emeritus of Systems at the UK Open University (OU), where he has contributed to systems thinking and practice since 1994. He played a key role in OU’s Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) program, leading research, teaching, and the professionalization of Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeships. His research spans sustainability, governance, and learning systems...
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System of Learning Systems
As systems evolve – whether cognitive, organizational, or societal – they must be organized according to a logic that matches the complexity of their environment, the epistemic capacity of their agents, and the metaphysical stance through which meaning is made. In this presentation, Dr. Janne J. Korhonen introduces the concept of Vertical Multiparadigmatism: a framework that weaves together four...
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System of Learning Systems
As systems evolve – whether cognitive, organizational, or societal – they must be organized according to a logic that matches the complexity of their environment, the epistemic capacity of their agents, and the metaphysical stance through which meaning is made. In this presentation, Dr. Janne J. Korhonen introduces the concept of Vertical Multiparadigmatism: a framework that weaves together four...
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How to Co-create Learning Spaces?
Tim Logan is Partner at Good Impact Labs, an education leader, connector and facilitator. Tim moves projects from innovative learning design to effectively executing ideas on the ground, swiftly. Bringing his extensive learnings and insights from a global career in youth work, teaching, school leadership and consultancy, Tim has worked with prominent clients around the world to develop new and...
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How to Co-create Learning Spaces?
Tim Logan is Partner at Good Impact Labs, an education leader, connector and facilitator. Tim moves projects from innovative learning design to effectively executing ideas on the ground, swiftly. Bringing his extensive learnings and insights from a global career in youth work, teaching, school leadership and consultancy, Tim has worked with prominent clients around the world to develop new and...
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Urban Mill Innovation Platform
Kari Mikkelä, M.Sc (Tech), Executive Producer, Urban Mill Innovation Platform; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University Kari Mikkelä has over 30 years of academic, corporate, and NGO experience in learning, innovation, and business services. During his career, he has worked in and for several organizations in a variety of capacities specialized in...
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Urban Mill Innovation Platform
Kari Mikkelä, M.Sc (Tech), Executive Producer, Urban Mill Innovation Platform; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University Kari Mikkelä has over 30 years of academic, corporate, and NGO experience in learning, innovation, and business services. During his career, he has worked in and for several organizations in a variety of capacities specialized in...
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Regeneratives Wirtschaften – Hebel und Werkzeuge für Organisationen
Wie können Unternehmen über Nachhaltigkeit hinausgehen und aktiv zur Regeneration ökologischer, sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Systeme beitragen? Und worin liegt überhaupt der Unterschied zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Regeneration? Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet Grundlagen, aber auch Hebel und Ansätze die Organisationen nutzen können, um diesen Wandel in ihren Strukturen und Prozessen zu verankern. Marcel...
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Regeneratives Wirtschaften – Hebel und Werkzeuge für Organisationen
Wie können Unternehmen über Nachhaltigkeit hinausgehen und aktiv zur Regeneration ökologischer, sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Systeme beitragen? Und worin liegt überhaupt der Unterschied zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Regeneration? Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet Grundlagen, aber auch Hebel und Ansätze die Organisationen nutzen können, um diesen Wandel in ihren Strukturen und Prozessen zu verankern. Marcel...
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Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
RRP: £18; Paperback: 267 pp; Publisher: Agendashift Press; ISBN 978-1068443602 How do leaders at all scales of organisation create the conditions for innovation, excellence, and performance? Initial clues are to be found in the Wholehearted organisation – one that recognises the leadership of those who find the right challenges to engage with, invite others into that process, and celebrate...
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Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
RRP: £18; Paperback: 267 pp; Publisher: Agendashift Press; ISBN 978-1068443602 How do leaders at all scales of organisation create the conditions for innovation, excellence, and performance? Initial clues are to be found in the Wholehearted organisation – one that recognises the leadership of those who find the right challenges to engage with, invite others into that process, and celebrate...
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Psychological safety as a systemic construct: implications for social services
Psychological safety—feeling safe to be oneself, take risks, and speak candidly—has been predominantly instrumentalised as a tool for driving innovation and profit in organisations. This presentation argues for a fundamental shift in perspective: feeling safe is a basic human right, not merely a means to an end. The current focus on staff dynamics often overlooks service recipients, creating an...
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Psychological safety as a systemic construct: implications for social services
Psychological safety—feeling safe to be oneself, take risks, and speak candidly—has been predominantly instrumentalised as a tool for driving innovation and profit in organisations. This presentation argues for a fundamental shift in perspective: feeling safe is a basic human right, not merely a means to an end. The current focus on staff dynamics often overlooks service recipients, creating an...
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Introduction to Critical Social Learning Systems
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 brief introduction 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...
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Introduction to Critical Social Learning Systems
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 brief introduction 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...
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