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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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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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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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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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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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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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2023 SCiO Annual General Meeting - members only
Recording and minutes of the SCiO 2023 Annual General Meeting - for members.
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2023 SCiO Annual General Meeting - members only
Recording and minutes of the SCiO 2023 Annual General Meeting - for members.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Socio-Technical Theory (STS)
Abbas, R.& Michael, K. (2023) Socio-Technical Theory: A review. In S. Papagiannidis (Ed), TheoryHub Book. Free pdf download at https://open.ncl.ac.uk / ISBN: 9781739604400. Socio-technical theory originated in the 1950s at the Tavistock Institute in London (Ropohl, 1999), led by Trist and Bamforth (1951) and Emery (1993), resulting from industry-based action research focusing on coal mining (Fox...
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Socio-Technical Theory (STS)
Abbas, R.& Michael, K. (2023) Socio-Technical Theory: A review. In S. Papagiannidis (Ed), TheoryHub Book. Free pdf download at https://open.ncl.ac.uk / ISBN: 9781739604400. Socio-technical theory originated in the 1950s at the Tavistock Institute in London (Ropohl, 1999), led by Trist and Bamforth (1951) and Emery (1993), resulting from industry-based action research focusing on coal mining (Fox...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Great Lives - Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
This is an inspirational 28-minute podcast from the BBC's Great Lives series, where Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, talks about Donella Meadows, her work, and the seminal systems thinking book "Limits to Growth" The podcast is available from BBC Sounds at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt9w
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Great Lives - Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
This is an inspirational 28-minute podcast from the BBC's Great Lives series, where Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, talks about Donella Meadows, her work, and the seminal systems thinking book "Limits to Growth" The podcast is available from BBC Sounds at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt9w
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 11. De eindbaas?, systeem 5 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 11. De eindbaas?, systeem 5 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 10. Aanpassingsvermogen, systeem 4 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 10. Aanpassingsvermogen, systeem 4 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 9. Manage efficiëntie, systeem 3 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 9. Manage efficiëntie, systeem 3 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 8. Coördinatie, systeem 2 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 8. Coördinatie, systeem 2 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 7. Autonomie, systeem 1 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 7. Autonomie, systeem 1 van het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 6. The Law of Requisite Variety
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 6. The Law of Requisite Variety
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 5. Feedback en systeemdenken
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 5. Feedback en systeemdenken
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 4. Het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 4. Het Viable System Model
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over een van de belangrijkste modellen binnen het systeemdenken: het Viable System Model.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 3. Het Cynefin framework
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 3. Het Cynefin framework
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 2. Wat is complexiteit?
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 2. Wat is complexiteit?
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 1. Wat is systeemdenken?
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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SCIO-NL De basis van systeemdenken – 1. Wat is systeemdenken?
Joost van der Leij en Ed van der Winden praten over grondbeginselen van het systeemdenken.
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Fixing service quality – and more – at a B2B SaaS business
PROJECT Fixing service quality – and more – at a B2B SaaS business PRACTITIONER Kim Warren, Strategy Dynamics Ltd. APPROX DATE Summer 2023. SITUATION AND CONTEXT A young company had built a successful business to business [B2B], software-as-a-service [SaaS] enterprise, providing specialist human-resource solutions for companies in a particular industry sector. The company had captured most of the...
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SD case study
Fixing service quality – and more – at a B2B SaaS business
PROJECT Fixing service quality – and more – at a B2B SaaS business PRACTITIONER Kim Warren, Strategy Dynamics Ltd. APPROX DATE Summer 2023. SITUATION AND CONTEXT A young company had built a successful business to business [B2B], software-as-a-service [SaaS] enterprise, providing specialist human-resource solutions for companies in a particular industry sector. The company had captured most of the...

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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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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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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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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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Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) overview video
SCiO recommends that attendees watch, prior to introductory CSH training, a short video overview, that presents terms and concepts used in the course. The video can be seen at: https://youtu.be/uiGbwzga-3Y
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Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) overview video
SCiO recommends that attendees watch, prior to introductory CSH training, a short video overview, that presents terms and concepts used in the course. The video can be seen at: https://youtu.be/uiGbwzga-3Y
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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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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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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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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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Decrypting the DNA of Megaprojects: A Model-based Management Approach using the Viable System Model (VSM)
PM World Journal (ISSN: 2330-4480) Vol. XII, Issue II – February 2023 24pp The following article is an introduction to the design of megaproject organizations based on the viable system model. It combines approaches from project management with approaches from systems theory. The understanding of complexity and how it is effectively managed by the organizational code is a central theme. After...
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Decrypting the DNA of Megaprojects: A Model-based Management Approach using the Viable System Model (VSM)
PM World Journal (ISSN: 2330-4480) Vol. XII, Issue II – February 2023 24pp The following article is an introduction to the design of megaproject organizations based on the viable system model. It combines approaches from project management with approaches from systems theory. The understanding of complexity and how it is effectively managed by the organizational code is a central theme. After...

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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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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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Why Vancouver’s healthcare system won’t save us and what we should do about it
Systemic Change of the Healthcare System Systems thinking is an important component of the design field that looks at the complexity of a diverse group of entities and how they are all interrelated to form an “ecosystem.” Each entity is connected to the others through the direct flow of resources or indirectly via an intricate web of relationships. One change within a system impacts every other...
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Why Vancouver’s healthcare system won’t save us and what we should do about it
Systemic Change of the Healthcare System Systems thinking is an important component of the design field that looks at the complexity of a diverse group of entities and how they are all interrelated to form an “ecosystem.” Each entity is connected to the others through the direct flow of resources or indirectly via an intricate web of relationships. One change within a system impacts every other...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7
Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7 Delivered by Cherith Simmons Leadership and Development in partnership with SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the professional body for systems practitioners in the UK. The broadest and deepest master’s level systems thinking course available to apprentices in the UK. 100% UK Government funded through an employer’s apprenticeship...
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Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7
Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7 Delivered by Cherith Simmons Leadership and Development in partnership with SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the professional body for systems practitioners in the UK. The broadest and deepest master’s level systems thinking course available to apprentices in the UK. 100% UK Government funded through an employer’s apprenticeship...

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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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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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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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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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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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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II: Living in the Loop
Free download; Pdf files: 389 pp; Publisher: Academic Press; ISBN 978-032391165-8 Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary. This handbook applies Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to achieve a much needed convergence across the physical, life and social sciences, the humanities and arts. In doing so it...
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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II: Living in the Loop
Free download; Pdf files: 389 pp; Publisher: Academic Press; ISBN 978-032391165-8 Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary. This handbook applies Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to achieve a much needed convergence across the physical, life and social sciences, the humanities and arts. In doing so it...

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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in Action (Systems Thinking)
RRP: £27.20 Paperback: 312 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032354972 Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply...
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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in Action (Systems Thinking)
RRP: £27.20 Paperback: 312 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032354972 Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply...

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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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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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33 Systemgesetze und -prinzipien: Auszug aus dem Buch The Grammar of Systems
RRP: 6.00€ Kindle: 144 pp Publisher: SCiO; ASIN B0BNGL6WW5 Diese vorliegende Zusammenstellung von 33 Systemgesetzen und -prinzipien wurde dem Buch „The Grammar of Systems“ entnommen. Das „Grammar“ umfasst zwei Bücher in einem. In beiden Teilen geht es um System Thinking, die Disziplin, welche entwickelt wurde, um sich mit Komplexität und Unsicherheit auseinanderzusetzen. Das erste Buch erklärt...
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33 Systemgesetze und -prinzipien: Auszug aus dem Buch The Grammar of Systems
RRP: 6.00€ Kindle: 144 pp Publisher: SCiO; ASIN B0BNGL6WW5 Diese vorliegende Zusammenstellung von 33 Systemgesetzen und -prinzipien wurde dem Buch „The Grammar of Systems“ entnommen. Das „Grammar“ umfasst zwei Bücher in einem. In beiden Teilen geht es um System Thinking, die Disziplin, welche entwickelt wurde, um sich mit Komplexität und Unsicherheit auseinanderzusetzen. Das erste Buch erklärt...

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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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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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