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Introduction to VSM
An introduction to the viable system model.(partial video)
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Introduction to VSM
An introduction to the viable system model.(partial video)
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Miles Runs the Gurus Down: what we can learn from Miles Davis
Miles Davis merely changed the face of music 4 or 5 times in his career. To be a successful jazz musician and leader is a challenge; to sustain that over more than 30 years is astonishing.
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Miles Runs the Gurus Down: what we can learn from Miles Davis
Miles Davis merely changed the face of music 4 or 5 times in his career. To be a successful jazz musician and leader is a challenge; to sustain that over more than 30 years is astonishing.
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From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM
Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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From Maidstone to Vilnius: A practitioner’s journey into theory with the VSM
Mike is a currently a consultant supporting ‘transformational’ projects in UK local government. His previous career has included roles in the Civil Service, Higher Education and a range of Local Authorities, including as Head of Performance & Risk at Swindon Council and Senior Business Change Manager at Trafford Council. Mike has also followed the well-trodden path of the Open University STiP...
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Systems Thinking and Doing in Defence – the misadventures of a boundary spanner and other experiments
Adoption of systems thinking and systems approaches in a hierarchical public sector organisation such as defence can be challenging.
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Systems Thinking and Doing in Defence – the misadventures of a boundary spanner and other experiments
Adoption of systems thinking and systems approaches in a hierarchical public sector organisation such as defence can be challenging.
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The Search for Viability: A practitioner's view of how the Viable Systems Model is helping transform English local government (and why it has passed unrecognised)
Since 2010, local authorities in England have experienced an unprecedented reduction in their resourcing at a time when demands on services have risen substantially through social and demographic changes. Faced with such external challenges, various Councils' internal transformations have sought to change the organisation as a system, but also to alter the relationship with the environment. These...
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The Search for Viability: A practitioner's view of how the Viable Systems Model is helping transform English local government (and why it has passed unrecognised)
Since 2010, local authorities in England have experienced an unprecedented reduction in their resourcing at a time when demands on services have risen substantially through social and demographic changes. Faced with such external challenges, various Councils' internal transformations have sought to change the organisation as a system, but also to alter the relationship with the environment. These...
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The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting: A New Operating System for Organisations: What it is and Why it Works
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 96 pp; Publisher: Matador; Language: English; ISBN: 9781785899287 It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting, yet businesses carry on doing it because they believe that there is no alternative . But there is - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement...
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The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting: A New Operating System for Organisations: What it is and Why it Works
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 96 pp; Publisher: Matador; Language: English; ISBN: 9781785899287 It is difficult to think of a business process that is as widely unpopular, dysfunctional and discredited as traditional budgeting, yet businesses carry on doing it because they believe that there is no alternative . But there is - yet over a decade after the creation of the Beyond Budgeting movement...
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Unified Service Management: An Introduction to the USM Method
RRP: £36.55 Paperback: 204 pp Publisher: Inform-IT, Knowledge Center for Service Management Language: English ISBN: 978-9491710353 USM is a universal, methodical way of managing service delivery. The USM method provides a standardized management system for a service organization to manage its people, its resources, its routines, and its services. USM can be used in all service...
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Unified Service Management: An Introduction to the USM Method
RRP: £36.55 Paperback: 204 pp Publisher: Inform-IT, Knowledge Center for Service Management Language: English ISBN: 978-9491710353 USM is a universal, methodical way of managing service delivery. The USM method provides a standardized management system for a service organization to manage its people, its resources, its routines, and its services. USM can be used in all service...
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Patterns of Strategy
Patterns of Strategy has been described as: “the first major new approach to strategy in a long time.”* It is also the first systems approach developed specifically for understanding and formulating strategy. This extended session will introduce the Patterns of Strategy approach, some of the systems theory behind it and then we’ll move into a practical workshop where the participants will use the...
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Patterns of Strategy
Patterns of Strategy has been described as: “the first major new approach to strategy in a long time.”* It is also the first systems approach developed specifically for understanding and formulating strategy. This extended session will introduce the Patterns of Strategy approach, some of the systems theory behind it and then we’ll move into a practical workshop where the participants will use the...
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Limitations of Systems Approaches, Methods and Models in Addressing Challenges in Complex Environments
Issues such as the Anthropocene are testament to the complexity of the issues with which systems people (Thinkers, Practitioners, and Engineers) are having to address. The nature of the systems we need to create are more interdependent with complexity inherent and require transient and agile approaches. However, no matter the approach, method, methodology or model our interventions often fail to...
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Limitations of Systems Approaches, Methods and Models in Addressing Challenges in Complex Environments
Issues such as the Anthropocene are testament to the complexity of the issues with which systems people (Thinkers, Practitioners, and Engineers) are having to address. The nature of the systems we need to create are more interdependent with complexity inherent and require transient and agile approaches. However, no matter the approach, method, methodology or model our interventions often fail to...
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Creating living strategies in a complex world: Implementing cybernetics to create the social capital needed for sustainable success.
In a fast-moving and complex world we need to make speedy decisions involving a large number of business perspectives. We need to co-ordinate a large number of activities to deliver on those decisions. We need all these elements to be bound by a common purpose, to ensure the buy-in of all those involved. Rather than, as in the past, sticking rigidly to “strategic” plans defined at the start of a...
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Creating living strategies in a complex world: Implementing cybernetics to create the social capital needed for sustainable success.
In a fast-moving and complex world we need to make speedy decisions involving a large number of business perspectives. We need to co-ordinate a large number of activities to deliver on those decisions. We need all these elements to be bound by a common purpose, to ensure the buy-in of all those involved. Rather than, as in the past, sticking rigidly to “strategic” plans defined at the start of a...
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Ladder of Abstraction
This short presentation will give an overview of the Ladder of Abstraction, a simple but effective tool for helping practitioners and their customers identify the most appropriate level at which to tackle a stated problem and explore a broader range of potential solutions. A real example will be worked through to demonstrate its application.
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Ladder of Abstraction
This short presentation will give an overview of the Ladder of Abstraction, a simple but effective tool for helping practitioners and their customers identify the most appropriate level at which to tackle a stated problem and explore a broader range of potential solutions. A real example will be worked through to demonstrate its application.
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Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled
RRP: £8.68 Paperback: 220 pp Publisher: SAGE Response; ISBN 978-9386446732 Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the...
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Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled
RRP: £8.68 Paperback: 220 pp Publisher: SAGE Response; ISBN 978-9386446732 Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the...
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Patterns of Strategy
RRP: £22.21 Paperback: 406 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (9 Dec. 2016) ISBN-10: 1138242675 Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand how to manoeuvre their organisation to change its strategic fit to their advantage. The 80 ‘patterns’ of strategy help you explore options for...
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Patterns of Strategy
RRP: £22.21 Paperback: 406 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (9 Dec. 2016) ISBN-10: 1138242675 Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand how to manoeuvre their organisation to change its strategic fit to their advantage. The 80 ‘patterns’ of strategy help you explore options for...
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Learning and Performance: A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training
RRP: £29.50 Paperback: 258 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032838519 Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and...
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Learning and Performance: A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training
RRP: £29.50 Paperback: 258 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032838519 Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and...
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Organisations as complex viable systems:
In this talk Angela will provide a brief review of development of complex systems approaches to management and sustainability research.
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Organisations as complex viable systems:
In this talk Angela will provide a brief review of development of complex systems approaches to management and sustainability research.
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Reflexivity in Systems Thinking
How do we regulate ourselves in practice? How do we bring elegance and aesthetics to our work? How can single double and triple loop learning prompt greater reflexivity in practice? How can we embody theoretical knowledge in a way that encompasses all our being and act with deep awareness? How do we ensure that the quality of the interventions we make are enhanced by an awareness of our internal...
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Reflexivity in Systems Thinking
How do we regulate ourselves in practice? How do we bring elegance and aesthetics to our work? How can single double and triple loop learning prompt greater reflexivity in practice? How can we embody theoretical knowledge in a way that encompasses all our being and act with deep awareness? How do we ensure that the quality of the interventions we make are enhanced by an awareness of our internal...
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Using systems thinking tools to identify training needs and evaluate training
Organisations often see training as an important way to improve individual and team performance, but may fail to consider how training relates to broader organisational issues affecting performance, or how it may complement ongoing informal learning activities. Systems thinking as a broader concept provides a useful way of identifying how training can be designed so that it supports individual and...
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Using systems thinking tools to identify training needs and evaluate training
Organisations often see training as an important way to improve individual and team performance, but may fail to consider how training relates to broader organisational issues affecting performance, or how it may complement ongoing informal learning activities. Systems thinking as a broader concept provides a useful way of identifying how training can be designed so that it supports individual and...
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Systems Thinking Focussed Workplace Learning Groups
Mike Haber, a University IT Team Leader, and Tim James, a Health Care Commissioner, met at a recent SCiO Development Day and discovered they were independently leading Systems Thinking focussed workplace learning groups.
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Systems Thinking Focussed Workplace Learning Groups
Mike Haber, a University IT Team Leader, and Tim James, a Health Care Commissioner, met at a recent SCiO Development Day and discovered they were independently leading Systems Thinking focussed workplace learning groups.
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VSM Case Study
Using VSM to diagnose & redesign a supply chain
PROJECT Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to diagnose and redesign a supply chain operation PRACTITIONER Tony Korycki, M GOO SITUATION AND CONTEXT An Information & Communications Technology company was faced with serious operational issues, when working with supply chain providers during customer service order fulfilment. Problems with configuration data and order co-ordination appeared...
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VSM Case Study
Using VSM to diagnose & redesign a supply chain
PROJECT Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to diagnose and redesign a supply chain operation PRACTITIONER Tony Korycki, M GOO SITUATION AND CONTEXT An Information & Communications Technology company was faced with serious operational issues, when working with supply chain providers during customer service order fulfilment. Problems with configuration data and order co-ordination appeared...
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The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research
RRP: £50 Paperback : 212 pages ISBN : 9811013500 Publisher : Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 edition (18 Sept. 2016) Language: : English This fully-updated and re-imagined version of the classic book offers a detailed outline for developing an action research project, focused specifically on Critical Participatory Action Research. Elaborates a new view of 'participation'...
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The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research
RRP: £50 Paperback : 212 pages ISBN : 9811013500 Publisher : Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 edition (18 Sept. 2016) Language: : English This fully-updated and re-imagined version of the classic book offers a detailed outline for developing an action research project, focused specifically on Critical Participatory Action Research. Elaborates a new view of 'participation'...
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CareStellations: A systemic constellations approach for the health and care sector
Richard will give an introduction to the constellations methodology used in 1:1 coaching and with organisations to explore underlying dynamics of systems. It will include an experiential element. The technique was originally devised within psychotherapy and now has a wide range of applications. Richard will explain the CareStellations structural approach that he is developing specifically for the...
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CareStellations: A systemic constellations approach for the health and care sector
Richard will give an introduction to the constellations methodology used in 1:1 coaching and with organisations to explore underlying dynamics of systems. It will include an experiential element. The technique was originally devised within psychotherapy and now has a wide range of applications. Richard will explain the CareStellations structural approach that he is developing specifically for the...
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The New Transformational Leadership Mindset
We live in a world of digital transformation, where ongoing change is disrupting organisations and business models. It is challenging and disrupting us as leaders or agents of change. It can inspire a pioneer mindset, to be excited and energized to find and build the future. It can be stressful, with too much to do, and too little time. It’s a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and...
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The New Transformational Leadership Mindset
We live in a world of digital transformation, where ongoing change is disrupting organisations and business models. It is challenging and disrupting us as leaders or agents of change. It can inspire a pioneer mindset, to be excited and energized to find and build the future. It can be stressful, with too much to do, and too little time. It’s a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and...
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Governing in the Anthropocene: towards systemic governance
The talk will reprise themes associated with a number of international addresses given in 2016 that address the question of what does the field of cybersystemics have to offer for governing in the Anthropocene? A response to this question entails examining how the concept 'system' has gone feral and its implications as well as what a field of cybersystemics might look like, and why? Through...
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Governing in the Anthropocene: towards systemic governance
The talk will reprise themes associated with a number of international addresses given in 2016 that address the question of what does the field of cybersystemics have to offer for governing in the Anthropocene? A response to this question entails examining how the concept 'system' has gone feral and its implications as well as what a field of cybersystemics might look like, and why? Through...
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System leadership - what does it mean to lead a system?
Benjamin will give a flying overview and critique some perspectives on 'system(s) leadership', including: - collaborative leadership and influencing models - living systems - 'whole systems' and large group methods - systems leadership theory - Barry Oshry's power+systems approach - adaptive leadership - leading in complexity - approaches based on behavioural and cognitive insights - approaches...
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System leadership - what does it mean to lead a system?
Benjamin will give a flying overview and critique some perspectives on 'system(s) leadership', including: - collaborative leadership and influencing models - living systems - 'whole systems' and large group methods - systems leadership theory - Barry Oshry's power+systems approach - adaptive leadership - leading in complexity - approaches based on behavioural and cognitive insights - approaches...
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Systems Laws Practise Session
The group will take a common current affairs topic and discuss this topic, in small groups, each using one of several 'systems laws'. Each group will then feed back to the plenary, reflecting on their learning about the systems law that they used, and what the law also revealed about the topic. The objective of the session is to take familiar or perhaps unfamiliar systems laws and develop insights...
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Systems Laws Practise Session
The group will take a common current affairs topic and discuss this topic, in small groups, each using one of several 'systems laws'. Each group will then feed back to the plenary, reflecting on their learning about the systems law that they used, and what the law also revealed about the topic. The objective of the session is to take familiar or perhaps unfamiliar systems laws and develop insights...
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Introduction to VSM
A brief introduction to the viable system model.
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Exploring Levels of 'Connected Happenings' - Visioning and Architecture for Transforming the Electrical Power System
This is a talk about systemic methods in practice. Roger and Jane have been addressing the architecture for future GB electrical power systems in various ways over the last three years. This talk will bring SCiO up to date on progress since their previous SCiO talk, in October 2013, on a distributed electricity architecture. They will address their experiences of grounding a wholly systemic...
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Exploring Levels of 'Connected Happenings' - Visioning and Architecture for Transforming the Electrical Power System
This is a talk about systemic methods in practice. Roger and Jane have been addressing the architecture for future GB electrical power systems in various ways over the last three years. This talk will bring SCiO up to date on progress since their previous SCiO talk, in October 2013, on a distributed electricity architecture. They will address their experiences of grounding a wholly systemic...
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Critical systems heuristics (CSH) and viable systems model (VSM): contemporary challenges to promoting systems praxis.
CSH and VSM derive from quite separate rich traditions of systems thinking, each with enigmatic original champions - C.West Churchman and Stafford Beer respetively. This session will open space to explore common and divergent lineages, challenges, and opportunities of each approach for the future prospects and developments of promoting systemic praxis in the Anthropocene. A particular focus will...
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Critical systems heuristics (CSH) and viable systems model (VSM): contemporary challenges to promoting systems praxis.
CSH and VSM derive from quite separate rich traditions of systems thinking, each with enigmatic original champions - C.West Churchman and Stafford Beer respetively. This session will open space to explore common and divergent lineages, challenges, and opportunities of each approach for the future prospects and developments of promoting systemic praxis in the Anthropocene. A particular focus will...
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Symmathesy and Systems Thinking in Identity
I would like to propose a new word for 'System' that refers specifically to living systems – that is, to systems composed of living vitae, which emerge from their communications and interactions. The expression and communication of interdependency and, particularly, mutual learning should be implicit in the term. The existing word, 'system', while useful for discussion of many kinds of systems...
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Symmathesy and Systems Thinking in Identity
I would like to propose a new word for 'System' that refers specifically to living systems – that is, to systems composed of living vitae, which emerge from their communications and interactions. The expression and communication of interdependency and, particularly, mutual learning should be implicit in the term. The existing word, 'system', while useful for discussion of many kinds of systems...
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Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster
RRP: £15.50 Paperback: 240 pp Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN 978-1626567207 This book reveals what it takes for consultants of all types, as well as organizational leaders, to be really helpful in dealing with the complex, systemic, constantly changing organizational problems of today. They need to rapidly create a relationship of trust and openness that enables clients...
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Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster
RRP: £15.50 Paperback: 240 pp Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN 978-1626567207 This book reveals what it takes for consultants of all types, as well as organizational leaders, to be really helpful in dealing with the complex, systemic, constantly changing organizational problems of today. They need to rapidly create a relationship of trust and openness that enables clients...
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Applying VSM within the Defence Enterprise
In 2010, the Secretary of State for Defence tasked Lord Levene of Portsoken to carry out an independent root and branch review of how the Ministry of Defence was structured and managed, to address the legacy of overspend and maximise the use of people and resources. The subsequent 2011 publication of Lord Levene’s ‘Defence Reform’ report, setting a new operating model for the MOD, hailed an...
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Applying VSM within the Defence Enterprise
In 2010, the Secretary of State for Defence tasked Lord Levene of Portsoken to carry out an independent root and branch review of how the Ministry of Defence was structured and managed, to address the legacy of overspend and maximise the use of people and resources. The subsequent 2011 publication of Lord Levene’s ‘Defence Reform’ report, setting a new operating model for the MOD, hailed an...
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From Human Capital to Social Equity
Businesses have become very efficient at managing individuals in the form of human capital - defined as the skills, knowledge and experience of individual employees within the company. In the past, with relatively stable markets, this was adequate, but the current competitiveness in our markets have put pressures upon our margins as well as the need to respond quicker to our customers. It is...
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From Human Capital to Social Equity
Businesses have become very efficient at managing individuals in the form of human capital - defined as the skills, knowledge and experience of individual employees within the company. In the past, with relatively stable markets, this was adequate, but the current competitiveness in our markets have put pressures upon our margins as well as the need to respond quicker to our customers. It is...
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Strategy and Adaptive Management in a Complex World
We live in a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Meanwhile, the impact of climate change, conflict, globalisation, economic and social shifts means that change can come fast, be hard to predict and lead to emerging and unexpected outcomes to markets and contexts. Meanwhile, due to concerns about budgets, and demonstrating efficacy, the desire to predict, control and measure...
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Strategy and Adaptive Management in a Complex World
We live in a VUCA world - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Meanwhile, the impact of climate change, conflict, globalisation, economic and social shifts means that change can come fast, be hard to predict and lead to emerging and unexpected outcomes to markets and contexts. Meanwhile, due to concerns about budgets, and demonstrating efficacy, the desire to predict, control and measure...
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Cybernetics and Complexity Science
Patrick Hoverstadt is Chair of SCiO and has written extensively about systems thinking and in particular about the Viable Systems Model in his book, The Fractal Organisation. Peter Miles was a director of the Complexity Society and is also a member of SCiO, and has observed that there are strong common themes (although sometimes using different language). SCiO has an outreach programme, and has...
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Cybernetics and Complexity Science
Patrick Hoverstadt is Chair of SCiO and has written extensively about systems thinking and in particular about the Viable Systems Model in his book, The Fractal Organisation. Peter Miles was a director of the Complexity Society and is also a member of SCiO, and has observed that there are strong common themes (although sometimes using different language). SCiO has an outreach programme, and has...
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Kybernetisches Bauprojektmanagement: Gestaltung lebensfähiger Baustrukturen auf Grundlage des Viable System Models
RRP: Taschenbuch 29.99€, E-Book: 9.99 € 188 Seiten, Books on Demand, ISBN: 3739201622 "Alles ist mit allem Verbunden" Was früher ein abstraktes Denkmodel war, ist durch die Vernetzung und die damit zunehmende Komplexität real geworden. Christoph Keese schreibt in seinem richtungsweisenden Bestseller "Silicon Valley" von 2014 über die Bedeutung der Kybernetik als Leitwissenschaft der digitalen...
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Kybernetisches Bauprojektmanagement: Gestaltung lebensfähiger Baustrukturen auf Grundlage des Viable System Models
RRP: Taschenbuch 29.99€, E-Book: 9.99 € 188 Seiten, Books on Demand, ISBN: 3739201622 "Alles ist mit allem Verbunden" Was früher ein abstraktes Denkmodel war, ist durch die Vernetzung und die damit zunehmende Komplexität real geworden. Christoph Keese schreibt in seinem richtungsweisenden Bestseller "Silicon Valley" von 2014 über die Bedeutung der Kybernetik als Leitwissenschaft der digitalen...
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A case study in VSM as a system tool for managing change
Elizabeth Donnelly was first introduced to systems thinking in 2006 as part of her undergraduate degree with the Open University. Following successful study she was able to introduce elements of systems thinking to her work as the Head of Skills for the aerospace trade association, including an examination of personnel reduction at the Ministry of Defence. In 2013 Elizabeth began an MSc in Systems...
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A case study in VSM as a system tool for managing change
Elizabeth Donnelly was first introduced to systems thinking in 2006 as part of her undergraduate degree with the Open University. Following successful study she was able to introduce elements of systems thinking to her work as the Head of Skills for the aerospace trade association, including an examination of personnel reduction at the Ministry of Defence. In 2013 Elizabeth began an MSc in Systems...
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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Decision Conferencing
Peter will give an introduction to Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision Conferencing: what these techniques are used for; where they came from; and how they are used in combination to support collaborative decision-making. Case studies will be used to illustrate real-world applications, including options appraisal, strategic portfolio optimisation and systems engineering...
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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Decision Conferencing
Peter will give an introduction to Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision Conferencing: what these techniques are used for; where they came from; and how they are used in combination to support collaborative decision-making. Case studies will be used to illustrate real-world applications, including options appraisal, strategic portfolio optimisation and systems engineering...
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The Enneagram of Enquiry
The interacting forces between the elements of Authentic Enquiry (AE) are not exposed for consideration by the usual linear 8 or 9 stage process. Paul's experience is that enquiry is non-linear process, involving several loops and iterations before progressing. He proposes that the elements of AE should form a system from which emerges knowledge generation. Might the nine-fold enneagram device...
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The Enneagram of Enquiry
The interacting forces between the elements of Authentic Enquiry (AE) are not exposed for consideration by the usual linear 8 or 9 stage process. Paul's experience is that enquiry is non-linear process, involving several loops and iterations before progressing. He proposes that the elements of AE should form a system from which emerges knowledge generation. Might the nine-fold enneagram device...
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Systems flashcards development
Mike has had a recent introduction to formal systems thinking, backed up by a history of being an systemic-ish internal change agent in educational IT organisations. Having recently completed a year of study with the Open University he's still aware of the journey that people starting learning about systems face, and hopes to use this understanding to help provide some signposts.
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Systems flashcards development
Mike has had a recent introduction to formal systems thinking, backed up by a history of being an systemic-ish internal change agent in educational IT organisations. Having recently completed a year of study with the Open University he's still aware of the journey that people starting learning about systems face, and hopes to use this understanding to help provide some signposts.
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Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
RRP: £25.17 Paperback : 286 pages ISBN : 978-0199565269 Publisher : Oxford University Press (30 Sept. 2015) Language: : English The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical...
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Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
RRP: £25.17 Paperback : 286 pages ISBN : 978-0199565269 Publisher : Oxford University Press (30 Sept. 2015) Language: : English The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical...
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Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of Change
RRP: £45.72 Paperback : 508 pages ISBN : 1137432683 Publisher : Red Globe Press (17 Jun. 2015) Language: : English What is Soft Systems Methodology? How can it help make sense of complex business scenarios, providing solutions to challenging problems? Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of Change identifies the challenges encountered by practitioners of SSM and provides the means...
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Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of Change
RRP: £45.72 Paperback : 508 pages ISBN : 1137432683 Publisher : Red Globe Press (17 Jun. 2015) Language: : English What is Soft Systems Methodology? How can it help make sense of complex business scenarios, providing solutions to challenging problems? Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of Change identifies the challenges encountered by practitioners of SSM and provides the means...
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Quantifying strategy using system dynamics
System dynamics (SD) is an approach that enables the behaviour of complex systems to be better understood and simulated. SD has been extensively applied to studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as business and other social systems, over the last 50 years. SD models represent changes in system behaviour over time by using the analogy of flows accumulating and depleting over time in...
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Quantifying strategy using system dynamics
System dynamics (SD) is an approach that enables the behaviour of complex systems to be better understood and simulated. SD has been extensively applied to studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as business and other social systems, over the last 50 years. SD models represent changes in system behaviour over time by using the analogy of flows accumulating and depleting over time in...
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Survival of the fittest (how understanding complex systems can provided insights to a Defence scenario)
Niki Jobson is a Defence Analyst working for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, an agency of the Ministry of Defence. The presentation will cover a number of concepts from Complex Systems Science (so includes some general systems concepts!) and how they were used as tools for thinking in a complex and highly dynamic Defence problem and to challenge existing ways of thinking. A key area...
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Survival of the fittest (how understanding complex systems can provided insights to a Defence scenario)
Niki Jobson is a Defence Analyst working for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, an agency of the Ministry of Defence. The presentation will cover a number of concepts from Complex Systems Science (so includes some general systems concepts!) and how they were used as tools for thinking in a complex and highly dynamic Defence problem and to challenge existing ways of thinking. A key area...
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Why organisation and systems theory and practice will solve the enduring problems of government, and politics and more democracy (by itself) will not.
Having spent a working lifetime in and around government in various roles, I became more and more frustrated with its capacity - regardless of the party in power - to produce much beneficial change.
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Why organisation and systems theory and practice will solve the enduring problems of government, and politics and more democracy (by itself) will not.
Having spent a working lifetime in and around government in various roles, I became more and more frustrated with its capacity - regardless of the party in power - to produce much beneficial change.
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What are human systems? Consequences of system blindness and possibilities of system sight
Barry has a unique understanding of human systems, based on four decades of work with the power lab and the organization workshop, experiential educational programs which have also served as his window into human systems. His presentation will focus on the costs of system blindness and the creative possibilities of system sight. He is the author of seeing systems, leading systems, and in the...
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What are human systems? Consequences of system blindness and possibilities of system sight
Barry has a unique understanding of human systems, based on four decades of work with the power lab and the organization workshop, experiential educational programs which have also served as his window into human systems. His presentation will focus on the costs of system blindness and the creative possibilities of system sight. He is the author of seeing systems, leading systems, and in the...
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Strategy Dynamics Essentials
RRP: £10 Paperback : 174 pages ISBN : 1505809053 Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (12 May 2015) Language: : English In this book Kim provides the reader with a reliable method to develop “joined up” strategies and plans for common business situations – a powerful addition to current tools and frameworks. The initial focus is on the core “strategic architecture” of the...
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Strategy Dynamics Essentials
RRP: £10 Paperback : 174 pages ISBN : 1505809053 Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (12 May 2015) Language: : English In this book Kim provides the reader with a reliable method to develop “joined up” strategies and plans for common business situations – a powerful addition to current tools and frameworks. The initial focus is on the core “strategic architecture” of the...