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People systems: working with leaders to create positive workplace culture
Peter is co-founder and Managing Director of Advanced Dynamics, an Australian company working with people to build capable organisations, helping both to realise their full potential. Drawing on leadership frameworks and systems approaches, application to leadership over 12 years at Advanced Dynamics, as well as 20 years in the mining and smelting industries in a wide range of roles. Peter will...
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People systems: working with leaders to create positive workplace culture
Peter is co-founder and Managing Director of Advanced Dynamics, an Australian company working with people to build capable organisations, helping both to realise their full potential. Drawing on leadership frameworks and systems approaches, application to leadership over 12 years at Advanced Dynamics, as well as 20 years in the mining and smelting industries in a wide range of roles. Peter will...
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Managing high-complexity problems through methodical participation: experiences with the Participatory Innovation Model
Present-day societies are flooded with high-complexity or 'wicked' problems in cities, sustainability, justice, poverty, education and many other fields. They involve large numbers of inter-dependent actors, issues, disciplines and cultures. The usual means applied to face them lack capacity (i.e., requisite variety), because of their reductionism and authoritarianism, and often make things worse...
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Managing high-complexity problems through methodical participation: experiences with the Participatory Innovation Model
Present-day societies are flooded with high-complexity or 'wicked' problems in cities, sustainability, justice, poverty, education and many other fields. They involve large numbers of inter-dependent actors, issues, disciplines and cultures. The usual means applied to face them lack capacity (i.e., requisite variety), because of their reductionism and authoritarianism, and often make things worse...
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A Complexity Approach to Sustainability: Theory and Applications
Jon and Angela will be presenting their new book, published recently by the Imperial College Press, as part of their new book series in complexity. They will argue that most of the current methodologies and paradigms supporting sustainability programs have limitations there is an urgent need for the application of analytical tools that themselves embody the principles of complexity management...
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A Complexity Approach to Sustainability: Theory and Applications
Jon and Angela will be presenting their new book, published recently by the Imperial College Press, as part of their new book series in complexity. They will argue that most of the current methodologies and paradigms supporting sustainability programs have limitations there is an urgent need for the application of analytical tools that themselves embody the principles of complexity management...
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Mosaic transformation in organisations
Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change Volume 1, 2004 - Issue 2, p163-177 - This paper uses the concepts of complexity and variety to analyse the widespread failure of some common approaches to large-scale organisational change. It is based on field research of organisation-wide change programmes in which three common approaches to change are assessed, including their inherent...
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Mosaic transformation in organisations
Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change Volume 1, 2004 - Issue 2, p163-177 - This paper uses the concepts of complexity and variety to analyse the widespread failure of some common approaches to large-scale organisational change. It is based on field research of organisation-wide change programmes in which three common approaches to change are assessed, including their inherent...
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transduction: discussion of transduction in the design of information systems and control systems
There is one functional area in Beer’s VSM, transduction, which is not fully explored in his work. Essentially, this is the change in the nature of goods/services and information when they cross a boundary. Organisations manage their total variety by systemically managing all the inter-linked system parts. Typically, this involves many codes and conventions. An example would be ‘phase locking’...
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transduction: discussion of transduction in the design of information systems and control systems
There is one functional area in Beer’s VSM, transduction, which is not fully explored in his work. Essentially, this is the change in the nature of goods/services and information when they cross a boundary. Organisations manage their total variety by systemically managing all the inter-linked system parts. Typically, this involves many codes and conventions. An example would be ‘phase locking’...
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Domesticating feral systems
Ferality is the bane of management. Ferality reduces agility, destroys customer service, increases business costs and compromises brand value.
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Domesticating feral systems
Ferality is the bane of management. Ferality reduces agility, destroys customer service, increases business costs and compromises brand value.
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Understanding organisations using ‘systems-thinking’ is well established, so what prevents us from turning the organisation into a ‘thinking-system’?
What do adaptive lean principles tell us about the way we need to design, build and operate modern businesses? Can we design organizations that are adaptive, innovative and engaging for employees and customers alike? Can we really change work climates in reasonably short time-frames?
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Understanding organisations using ‘systems-thinking’ is well established, so what prevents us from turning the organisation into a ‘thinking-system’?
What do adaptive lean principles tell us about the way we need to design, build and operate modern businesses? Can we design organizations that are adaptive, innovative and engaging for employees and customers alike? Can we really change work climates in reasonably short time-frames?
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Grounding System Viability Models and Soft Methodologies for Architecting oil and gas independents
Mesbah will address the approach he has taken and the issues he has considered in blending systems thinking with enterprise architecture in the context of upstream oil and gas independents. In particular, he will explain the conceptual and pragmatic challenges of integrating systems approaches that focus on inter-subjective and social communication (including the VSM and SSM) with enterprise...
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Grounding System Viability Models and Soft Methodologies for Architecting oil and gas independents
Mesbah will address the approach he has taken and the issues he has considered in blending systems thinking with enterprise architecture in the context of upstream oil and gas independents. In particular, he will explain the conceptual and pragmatic challenges of integrating systems approaches that focus on inter-subjective and social communication (including the VSM and SSM) with enterprise...
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Using Critical Systems Heuristics to Guide Second-Order Critique of Systemic Practice: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Mining Operations in Southern Peru
Article in Systems Research & Behavioural Science, Vol 31, issue 2, p197-214 [$49 download cost; 48h access $12] A framework based on Ulrich's critical systems heuristics (CSH) is presented to organize second-order critical inquiry in systems practice and action research. It is argued that such an approach not only improves the rigour of systems methodologies in action in a specific ‘situation of...
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Using Critical Systems Heuristics to Guide Second-Order Critique of Systemic Practice: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Mining Operations in Southern Peru
Article in Systems Research & Behavioural Science, Vol 31, issue 2, p197-214 [$49 download cost; 48h access $12] A framework based on Ulrich's critical systems heuristics (CSH) is presented to organize second-order critical inquiry in systems practice and action research. It is argued that such an approach not only improves the rigour of systems methodologies in action in a specific ‘situation of...
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Project Complexity Assessment
RRP: £4.62 Kindle: 54 pp Publisher: ICCPM; ASIN B00C2HXX58 Complex projects must be managed using complex project management methods. The misunderstanding of the difference between complicated and complex projects is a major cause of difficulty and failure. Complicated projects are linear, you know what you have to do, there may be a manual and various steps to completion have been captured...
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Project Complexity Assessment
RRP: £4.62 Kindle: 54 pp Publisher: ICCPM; ASIN B00C2HXX58 Complex projects must be managed using complex project management methods. The misunderstanding of the difference between complicated and complex projects is a major cause of difficulty and failure. Complicated projects are linear, you know what you have to do, there may be a manual and various steps to completion have been captured...
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Caring Behaviours assurance system; a systems-driven programme in a hospital and community context
Choice Dynamic International have created a unique approach to assuring the quality of caring and compassion CBAS, adaptable for use by staff in all health and social care settings.
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Caring Behaviours assurance system; a systems-driven programme in a hospital and community context
Choice Dynamic International have created a unique approach to assuring the quality of caring and compassion CBAS, adaptable for use by staff in all health and social care settings.
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Addressing issues of equity using critical systems thinking
Viable organisations need to be ethically astute. In examining questions of equity - access to resources (who gets what?) – attention is often diverted from systemically related questions of power (who owns what?) and questions of knowledge (who does what?). Moreover these questions relate to important questions regarding legitimacy (who gets affected by what some people get?). Such ethical and...
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Addressing issues of equity using critical systems thinking
Viable organisations need to be ethically astute. In examining questions of equity - access to resources (who gets what?) – attention is often diverted from systemically related questions of power (who owns what?) and questions of knowledge (who does what?). Moreover these questions relate to important questions regarding legitimacy (who gets affected by what some people get?). Such ethical and...
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Organisation Capability Models : Systems thinking by stealth
Lucy will shown how the use of organisation capability models can make elements of systems thinking useful and usable across organisations, even where systems thinking itself is not prevalent or recognised.
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Organisation Capability Models : Systems thinking by stealth
Lucy will shown how the use of organisation capability models can make elements of systems thinking useful and usable across organisations, even where systems thinking itself is not prevalent or recognised.
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Using a personal VSM to introduce managers to the VSM
The VSM can often provide a manager with new insights and understanding of their options. However, the language and structure of the VSM needs careful guidance for a manager new to applying the VSM to their own context.
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Using a personal VSM to introduce managers to the VSM
The VSM can often provide a manager with new insights and understanding of their options. However, the language and structure of the VSM needs careful guidance for a manager new to applying the VSM to their own context.
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Social Networking, A strategy Dynamics Perspective
Alan will present an overview of the Systems Dynamics Approach basing his presentation on the different business models adopted by social networking sites. He will look at and contrast different business models adopted by these sites and examine alternatives and choices and their impact on ‘the bottom’ line. The value of taking a ‘systems dynamics perspective’ will be explained.
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Social Networking, A strategy Dynamics Perspective
Alan will present an overview of the Systems Dynamics Approach basing his presentation on the different business models adopted by social networking sites. He will look at and contrast different business models adopted by these sites and examine alternatives and choices and their impact on ‘the bottom’ line. The value of taking a ‘systems dynamics perspective’ will be explained.
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Management Science: Decision-making through systems thinking
RRP: £72.21; Paperback: 604 pp; Publisher: Red Globe Press; 2nd edition; ISBN 978-0230316478 Management Science provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of the subject, incorporating a broad set of approaches and tools. The authors explore both 'soft' and 'hard' methodologies and highlight conceptual aspects rather than the mathematics of the techniques or computer methods. The book is...
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Management Science: Decision-making through systems thinking
RRP: £72.21; Paperback: 604 pp; Publisher: Red Globe Press; 2nd edition; ISBN 978-0230316478 Management Science provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of the subject, incorporating a broad set of approaches and tools. The authors explore both 'soft' and 'hard' methodologies and highlight conceptual aspects rather than the mathematics of the techniques or computer methods. The book is...
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The Trouble with Strategy: The brutal reality of why business strategy doesn't work and what to do about it
RRP: £10 Paperback: 196 pp Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition; ISBN 978-1481120593 This book describes how strategic management of many businesses is badly done, and why this problem has persisted for many decades. It explains that the field of strategy is unprofessional and badly flawed, having poor theory and few useful, reliable principles, leaving...
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The Trouble with Strategy: The brutal reality of why business strategy doesn't work and what to do about it
RRP: £10 Paperback: 196 pp Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition; ISBN 978-1481120593 This book describes how strategic management of many businesses is badly done, and why this problem has persisted for many decades. It explains that the field of strategy is unprofessional and badly flawed, having poor theory and few useful, reliable principles, leaving...
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The Right Corporate Governance: Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity
RRP: £79 Hardcover Publisher: Campus Verlag (30 Oct. 2012) ASIN: B00L6YXQB4 The Right Corporate Governance The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management - one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. This book is written for practitioners who bear responsibility for...
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The Right Corporate Governance: Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity
RRP: £79 Hardcover Publisher: Campus Verlag (30 Oct. 2012) ASIN: B00L6YXQB4 The Right Corporate Governance The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management - one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. This book is written for practitioners who bear responsibility for...
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Decision Behaviour, Analysis & Support
Nadia will discuss biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in decision making. She will introduce decision analysis as a discipline that can help decision makers take better decisions.
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Decision Behaviour, Analysis & Support
Nadia will discuss biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in decision making. She will introduce decision analysis as a discipline that can help decision makers take better decisions.
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Systems thinking: absent competence or constrained capability?
Helen will introduce issues concerned with the design and implementation of her M.Sc. research work linked to health and well-being.
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Systems thinking: absent competence or constrained capability?
Helen will introduce issues concerned with the design and implementation of her M.Sc. research work linked to health and well-being.
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Socio-Cybernetics and Complex Organisations
This session will offer a brief introduction into one perspective on formalising “systems thinking” and socio-cybernetics, using three scenarios to illustrate “the problem” as it presents itself; in the education area of government policy, in an evolving hospital system, and operation of a large business. Discussion will focus on the question of how to envision a management (governance, socio...
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Socio-Cybernetics and Complex Organisations
This session will offer a brief introduction into one perspective on formalising “systems thinking” and socio-cybernetics, using three scenarios to illustrate “the problem” as it presents itself; in the education area of government policy, in an evolving hospital system, and operation of a large business. Discussion will focus on the question of how to envision a management (governance, socio...
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Making use of facilitation tools in system exploration
Elizabeth is interested in blending an understanding of ‘facilitation’ as a craft skill with the real challenge of engaging people in utilizing systems thinking and systems tools.
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Making use of facilitation tools in system exploration
Elizabeth is interested in blending an understanding of ‘facilitation’ as a craft skill with the real challenge of engaging people in utilizing systems thinking and systems tools.
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 autumn (vol.10)
Thinking in Systems – A Primer. Donella Meadows. London: Earthscan (2009) 210pp. ISBN 9781844077267; Modelling SCiO using the Viable Systems Model- Modelling SCiO as a Viable System – Roger Duck; Cwarel Isaf Cottage: The place to BE.- Jan Kuiper; SCiO Development Day Manchester 6th October – Jane Searles; The Human Cost of Control - part 1 - David Bovis; The Perils of Kindness – The first in a...
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 autumn (vol.10)
Thinking in Systems – A Primer. Donella Meadows. London: Earthscan (2009) 210pp. ISBN 9781844077267; Modelling SCiO using the Viable Systems Model- Modelling SCiO as a Viable System – Roger Duck; Cwarel Isaf Cottage: The place to BE.- Jan Kuiper; SCiO Development Day Manchester 6th October – Jane Searles; The Human Cost of Control - part 1 - David Bovis; The Perils of Kindness – The first in a...
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Models that Include Cows: The Significance of Operational Thinking
Conference Proceedings - The 30th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society St. Gallen, Switzerland -- July 22-26, 2012 ISBN 978-1-935056-10-2 The unconscious application of sophisticated tools, and in particular the popular reverence to data as the source of knowledge, seems to be the rule in many scientific activities, in which the application of tools replaces thinking and data...
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Models that Include Cows: The Significance of Operational Thinking
Conference Proceedings - The 30th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society St. Gallen, Switzerland -- July 22-26, 2012 ISBN 978-1-935056-10-2 The unconscious application of sophisticated tools, and in particular the popular reverence to data as the source of knowledge, seems to be the rule in many scientific activities, in which the application of tools replaces thinking and data...
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Knowledge Leadership and the Practice of Strategic Knowledge Management
Systemic thinking requires at least 2 types of thinking: open and closed. Open thinking is about the dynamic relationship of the organisation in terms of its environment, and closed thinking about those transactional acts that are worth improving or migrating to partners. Similarly, there are at least 2 kinds of knowledge management practice, one is about supporting the organization’s current...
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Knowledge Leadership and the Practice of Strategic Knowledge Management
Systemic thinking requires at least 2 types of thinking: open and closed. Open thinking is about the dynamic relationship of the organisation in terms of its environment, and closed thinking about those transactional acts that are worth improving or migrating to partners. Similarly, there are at least 2 kinds of knowledge management practice, one is about supporting the organization’s current...
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Systemic Approaches to Strategy
Strategy is a much used and abused term in business. Despite a huge literature and industry that has developed around business strategy, it has a dismal track record. This session looks at business strategy from a systems perspective, provides a short critique of traditional approaches, some radical perspectives on what strategy is and some very different models of strategy and its critical...
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Systemic Approaches to Strategy
Strategy is a much used and abused term in business. Despite a huge literature and industry that has developed around business strategy, it has a dismal track record. This session looks at business strategy from a systems perspective, provides a short critique of traditional approaches, some radical perspectives on what strategy is and some very different models of strategy and its critical...
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Assessing Intelligence
Following his presentation ‘No Intelligence Without Feedback at a previous SCiO open meeting, Richard will lead an interactive workshop trying to detect and evaluate the systematic and dynamic feedback loops in some notorious organizations and ecosystems. By examining their apparent behaviour and outcomes, he will attempt to draw some conclusions about their organizational intelligence, both...
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Assessing Intelligence
Following his presentation ‘No Intelligence Without Feedback at a previous SCiO open meeting, Richard will lead an interactive workshop trying to detect and evaluate the systematic and dynamic feedback loops in some notorious organizations and ecosystems. By examining their apparent behaviour and outcomes, he will attempt to draw some conclusions about their organizational intelligence, both...
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Using System Thinking Frameworks to understand complexity and re-shape the use of social media at the Organisation/Environment Interface
Mike will present frameworks to approach the problems created by massive change in the organisation / environment interface. The overarching context of the problem is that companies used to be able to control much of how they were perceived. This is no longer true.
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Using System Thinking Frameworks to understand complexity and re-shape the use of social media at the Organisation/Environment Interface
Mike will present frameworks to approach the problems created by massive change in the organisation / environment interface. The overarching context of the problem is that companies used to be able to control much of how they were perceived. This is no longer true.
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 summer (vol.9)
The Magical Management Mystery Tour – Gordon Kennedy; Book Review: What Would Drucker Do Now? Solutions to Today's Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management. Rick Wartzmann, McGraw Hill 2012; Debt: the first 5000 years - by David Graeber; Systems Thinking Approaches or Approaches to Systems Thinking? - Geoff Elliott & Roger James; An investigation into the use of a personal VSM –...
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 summer (vol.9)
The Magical Management Mystery Tour – Gordon Kennedy; Book Review: What Would Drucker Do Now? Solutions to Today's Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management. Rick Wartzmann, McGraw Hill 2012; Debt: the first 5000 years - by David Graeber; Systems Thinking Approaches or Approaches to Systems Thinking? - Geoff Elliott & Roger James; An investigation into the use of a personal VSM –...
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Below the Radar; harnessing Emotional Intelligence - a craft workshop
When working with Systems, we tend to model our system-in-focus by identifying key stakeholder groups and their involvement with the system activity. For every individual involved, there will be observed performance, in terms of observed actions and behaviours, but also hidden brain activity including autonomous functions, emotional activity, and the workings of the unconscious mind - all active...
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Below the Radar; harnessing Emotional Intelligence - a craft workshop
When working with Systems, we tend to model our system-in-focus by identifying key stakeholder groups and their involvement with the system activity. For every individual involved, there will be observed performance, in terms of observed actions and behaviours, but also hidden brain activity including autonomous functions, emotional activity, and the workings of the unconscious mind - all active...
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Addressing social return on investment with systems techniques: a British Waterways Programme
In June 2012, British Waterways will move out of the public sector and become the Canal and River Trust (CRT) within the third sector. This has been their ambition since 2009, but government acceptance came with an extremely challenging timescale. The build up and deployment of a body of volunteers within their organisation was a key part of their change strategy. Currently, the organisation’s...
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Addressing social return on investment with systems techniques: a British Waterways Programme
In June 2012, British Waterways will move out of the public sector and become the Canal and River Trust (CRT) within the third sector. This has been their ambition since 2009, but government acceptance came with an extremely challenging timescale. The build up and deployment of a body of volunteers within their organisation was a key part of their change strategy. Currently, the organisation’s...
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Management research from a systems perspective
How do you know what you know? What we know depends on the questions we ask, and the kinds of questions we ask depends on our philosophical assumptions, which are often 'hidden'. How frequently do we hear that 'what gets measured gets done' but this assumes that the important things can be measured and that causality can be determined. Whether this assumption holds true for you depends on your...
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Management research from a systems perspective
How do you know what you know? What we know depends on the questions we ask, and the kinds of questions we ask depends on our philosophical assumptions, which are often 'hidden'. How frequently do we hear that 'what gets measured gets done' but this assumes that the important things can be measured and that causality can be determined. Whether this assumption holds true for you depends on your...
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 spring (vol.8)
Reflections on the year ahead – Patrick Hoverstadt; Evolving the Professional Development Programme in SCiO – Roger Duck & Elizabeth McDonnell; Book Review: Learning for Action – A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students. Peter Checkland and John Poulter; Wiley (2010) – ISBN 0470025549; Learning to eat soup with a knife: John A Nagl...
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SCiO newsletter - 2012 spring (vol.8)
Reflections on the year ahead – Patrick Hoverstadt; Evolving the Professional Development Programme in SCiO – Roger Duck & Elizabeth McDonnell; Book Review: Learning for Action – A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students. Peter Checkland and John Poulter; Wiley (2010) – ISBN 0470025549; Learning to eat soup with a knife: John A Nagl...
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A Complexity Approach To Sustainability: Theory And Application
RRP: £48 Paperback: 390 pages Publisher: Icp (8 April 2011) ISBN: 1848165285 A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing this issue has not filtered down into effective practice - notably...
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A Complexity Approach To Sustainability: Theory And Application
RRP: £48 Paperback: 390 pages Publisher: Icp (8 April 2011) ISBN: 1848165285 A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing this issue has not filtered down into effective practice - notably...
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SCiO newsletter - 2011 winter (vol.7)
The Unreal Economy – Patrick Hoverstadt; The Systems Thinking Landscape – Geoff Elliott; Stafford Beer and the Course of History- Rod Thomas; Systemic Leadership – William Tate
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SCiO newsletter - 2011 winter (vol.7)
The Unreal Economy – Patrick Hoverstadt; The Systems Thinking Landscape – Geoff Elliott; Stafford Beer and the Course of History- Rod Thomas; Systemic Leadership – William Tate
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Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
RRP: £28.69 Paperback : 374 pages ISBN : 978-0123859150 Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd edition (29 Jun. 2011) Language: English Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated to...
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Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
RRP: £28.69 Paperback : 374 pages ISBN : 978-0123859150 Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd edition (29 Jun. 2011) Language: English Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated to...
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Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
RRP: £14.79 Paperback : 245 pages ISBN : 1573244988 Publisher : Conari Press; 2nd ed. edition (1 May 2011) Language: : English Some people appear more gifted than others. NLP, one of the fastest growing developments in applied psychology, describes in simple terms what they do differently, and enables you to learn these patterns of excellence. This book offers the practical skills used by...
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Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
RRP: £14.79 Paperback : 245 pages ISBN : 1573244988 Publisher : Conari Press; 2nd ed. edition (1 May 2011) Language: : English Some people appear more gifted than others. NLP, one of the fastest growing developments in applied psychology, describes in simple terms what they do differently, and enables you to learn these patterns of excellence. This book offers the practical skills used by...
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Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model
RRP: £110 Hardcover : 278 pages ISBN : 3642191088 Publisher : Springer (2 April 2011) Language: : English, Bulgarian Organizational Systems clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the...
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Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model
RRP: £110 Hardcover : 278 pages ISBN : 3642191088 Publisher : Springer (2 April 2011) Language: : English, Bulgarian Organizational Systems clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the...
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SCiO newsletter - 2011 spring (vol.6)
Three Day Transformation - Reflections on the Third Cwarel Isaf Conference on Management Cybernetics, 30 March – 1 April 2011, St Gallen, Switzerland; The Event in the South: report of the first SCiO Open Meeting in London. Lessons from a sports association study—part 3 Some modelling experiences. Denis Adams
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SCiO newsletter - 2011 spring (vol.6)
Three Day Transformation - Reflections on the Third Cwarel Isaf Conference on Management Cybernetics, 30 March – 1 April 2011, St Gallen, Switzerland; The Event in the South: report of the first SCiO Open Meeting in London. Lessons from a sports association study—part 3 Some modelling experiences. Denis Adams
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A Multi-organisational, Multi-methodology approach to a ‘wicked’ problem
This session will look at some of the practical implications of working on a “wicked problem” which involved multi-agency interventions using multiple methodologies. As well as a number of technical issues to do with handling each of these three aspects of a complex intervention, there were also inevitably several softer prac-tice issues: to do with the engagement of cli-ents, the thinking...
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A Multi-organisational, Multi-methodology approach to a ‘wicked’ problem
This session will look at some of the practical implications of working on a “wicked problem” which involved multi-agency interventions using multiple methodologies. As well as a number of technical issues to do with handling each of these three aspects of a complex intervention, there were also inevitably several softer prac-tice issues: to do with the engagement of cli-ents, the thinking...
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OMM a powerful organisational maturity tool
The Organisational Maturity Model (OMM) has been developed by SCiO. It is driven by a questionnaire and is designed to show the structural integrity of your organisation. The OMM allows managers to improve the capability of their organisation to operate more effectively and adapt to change. It does this by providing a framework to develop the structural integrity of the organisation. For an...
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OMM a powerful organisational maturity tool
The Organisational Maturity Model (OMM) has been developed by SCiO. It is driven by a questionnaire and is designed to show the structural integrity of your organisation. The OMM allows managers to improve the capability of their organisation to operate more effectively and adapt to change. It does this by providing a framework to develop the structural integrity of the organisation. For an...
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 winter (vol.5)
OMM Update - The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model; Fractal Life, Lessons from a sports association study - part 2 – Denis Adams
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 winter (vol.5)
OMM Update - The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model; Fractal Life, Lessons from a sports association study - part 2 – Denis Adams
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Recursive Structures and Logic - a craft skills workshop
SCiO has made the strategic decision to create a Professional Development Programme for the Systems Professional. The structure will be a portfolio of development modules built around three themes: Technical Skills, Craft Skills, and Theory. Patrick will lead a practical session on the craft skills of mapping levels of logic. This is a foundational skill with many areas of application, including...
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Recursive Structures and Logic - a craft skills workshop
SCiO has made the strategic decision to create a Professional Development Programme for the Systems Professional. The structure will be a portfolio of development modules built around three themes: Technical Skills, Craft Skills, and Theory. Patrick will lead a practical session on the craft skills of mapping levels of logic. This is a foundational skill with many areas of application, including...
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 autumn (vol.4)
The SCiO Professional Development Programme (PDP); The OMM (Organisational Maturity Model); Lessons from a Sports Association Study — Denis Adams; Book Review: Think before you Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing‘. Stafford Beer, ed David Whittaker
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 autumn (vol.4)
The SCiO Professional Development Programme (PDP); The OMM (Organisational Maturity Model); Lessons from a Sports Association Study — Denis Adams; Book Review: Think before you Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing‘. Stafford Beer, ed David Whittaker
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 summer (vol.3)
SCiO Professional Development Programme - A different model of professional development
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 summer (vol.3)
SCiO Professional Development Programme - A different model of professional development
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VSM System Archetypes
Archetypes of the VSM: This pamphlet gives useful one page summaries of the VSM pathological archetypes. These are recurring problematic patterns - referred to as pathological archetypes - and are suitable for identifying and communicating problems in systems through the viable system model.
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VSM System Archetypes
Archetypes of the VSM: This pamphlet gives useful one page summaries of the VSM pathological archetypes. These are recurring problematic patterns - referred to as pathological archetypes - and are suitable for identifying and communicating problems in systems through the viable system model.
English
SCiO Organisational Maturity Model
The Organisational Maturity Model (OMM) has been developed by SCiO. It is driven by a questionnaire and is designed to show the structural integrity of your organisation (currently from a single user perspective). The OMM allows managers to improve the capability of their organisation to operate more effectively and adapt to change. It does this by providing a framework to develop the structural...
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SCiO Organisational Maturity Model
The Organisational Maturity Model (OMM) has been developed by SCiO. It is driven by a questionnaire and is designed to show the structural integrity of your organisation (currently from a single user perspective). The OMM allows managers to improve the capability of their organisation to operate more effectively and adapt to change. It does this by providing a framework to develop the structural...
English
Managing Complex Projects
While it is inarguable that many complex pro-jects have indeed over-run and under-delivered, it is profoundly untrue that this is an inevitable outcome. Rather, it is simply the case that the prevailing acquisition environment militates towards failure. It is unrealistic to depend on toolsets and skillsets that may be adequate for simple projects but cannot cope with complex-ity. They might work...
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Managing Complex Projects
While it is inarguable that many complex pro-jects have indeed over-run and under-delivered, it is profoundly untrue that this is an inevitable outcome. Rather, it is simply the case that the prevailing acquisition environment militates towards failure. It is unrealistic to depend on toolsets and skillsets that may be adequate for simple projects but cannot cope with complex-ity. They might work...
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