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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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...
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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.
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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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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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Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide
RRP: £54 Paperback: 324 pages Publisher: Springer; 2010 edition (15 Mar. 2010) ISBN: 184882808X This compilation of readings is a practical guide for practitioners involved with managing complex and uncertain situations. At a time when the media continually tells of a world facing many crises, it provides an opportunity to gain understanding of robust approaches to managing complex and ever...
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Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide
RRP: £54 Paperback: 324 pages Publisher: Springer; 2010 edition (15 Mar. 2010) ISBN: 184882808X This compilation of readings is a practical guide for practitioners involved with managing complex and uncertain situations. At a time when the media continually tells of a world facing many crises, it provides an opportunity to gain understanding of robust approaches to managing complex and ever...
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 spring (vol.2)
Stories: At Last - The First Meeting with Stafford Beer; An opportunity to develop your systems thinking in practice - a new modular OU MSc: Systems Thinking in Practice; Book Reviews: Systems Thinkers. Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp. Springer; 316pp. edition (18 Sep 2009) ISBN: 978-1848825246; Systems Approaches to managing change: a practical guide. Ed. Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell. Springer...
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SCiO newsletter - 2010 spring (vol.2)
Stories: At Last - The First Meeting with Stafford Beer; An opportunity to develop your systems thinking in practice - a new modular OU MSc: Systems Thinking in Practice; Book Reviews: Systems Thinkers. Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp. Springer; 316pp. edition (18 Sep 2009) ISBN: 978-1848825246; Systems Approaches to managing change: a practical guide. Ed. Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell. Springer...
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Circles of Need ® – A tool for introducing systems thinking into Local Area Partnerships
Jane has used an approach which attempts to map the various customer needs within complex public sector services for several client organisations. Jane will describe how the Circles of Need® approach has transformed the client understanding to such an extent that radical re-design has been feasible. In addition, she will reflect on the role and power of systems thinking and relate it to the roles...
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Circles of Need ® – A tool for introducing systems thinking into Local Area Partnerships
Jane has used an approach which attempts to map the various customer needs within complex public sector services for several client organisations. Jane will describe how the Circles of Need® approach has transformed the client understanding to such an extent that radical re-design has been feasible. In addition, she will reflect on the role and power of systems thinking and relate it to the roles...
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Attacking Complex Problems: The Life and Work of Dr John Warfield
The latter portion of Warfield's career was devoted to a new concept: Interactive Management. Developed in conjunction with Dr. Alexander Christakis, and first deployed significantly at the University of Virginia in the early 1980's, this methodology was intended to help organizations solve complex problems. Warfield and Christakis brought their Center for Interactive Management to George Mason...
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Attacking Complex Problems: The Life and Work of Dr John Warfield
The latter portion of Warfield's career was devoted to a new concept: Interactive Management. Developed in conjunction with Dr. Alexander Christakis, and first deployed significantly at the University of Virginia in the early 1980's, this methodology was intended to help organizations solve complex problems. Warfield and Christakis brought their Center for Interactive Management to George Mason...
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SCiO newsletter - 2009 winter (vol.1)
Feedback from the SCiO survey; Update on The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model; VSM training; Elections to board; Bookworm: Future Ready How to Master Business forecasting (1st Edition); Website update; Communications; Next open meeting; Development day; Mandelbulbs
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SCiO newsletter - 2009 winter (vol.1)
Feedback from the SCiO survey; Update on The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model; VSM training; Elections to board; Bookworm: Future Ready How to Master Business forecasting (1st Edition); Website update; Communications; Next open meeting; Development day; Mandelbulbs
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Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting
RRP: £1; Hardcover: 358 ppp; Publisher: Wiley;1st edition; Language: English; ISBN 978-0470747056 The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the...
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Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting
RRP: £1; Hardcover: 358 ppp; Publisher: Wiley;1st edition; Language: English; ISBN 978-0470747056 The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the...
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Systemisches Management, Evolution, Selbstorganisation
RRP: 49,00 € Hardback 342 pages ISBN : 3258074941 Publisher : Haupt Verlag AG (1 Aug. 2009) Language : German Dieses Buch richtet sich an jene Führungskräfte, die den grundlegenden Charakter der Organisationen, in denen sie handeln, besser verstehen wollen. Die Organisationen einer modernen Gesellschaft sind zum größten Teil hochkomplexe Systeme, die wir nicht - wie weithin üblich - als Maschinen...
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German
Systemisches Management, Evolution, Selbstorganisation
RRP: 49,00 € Hardback 342 pages ISBN : 3258074941 Publisher : Haupt Verlag AG (1 Aug. 2009) Language : German Dieses Buch richtet sich an jene Führungskräfte, die den grundlegenden Charakter der Organisationen, in denen sie handeln, besser verstehen wollen. Die Organisationen einer modernen Gesellschaft sind zum größten Teil hochkomplexe Systeme, die wir nicht - wie weithin üblich - als Maschinen...
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The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model
RRP: £25.39 Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: Wiley (24 July 2009) ISBN: 0470060565 The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested...
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The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model
RRP: £25.39 Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: Wiley (24 July 2009) ISBN: 0470060565 The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested...
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
RRP: £35 Paperback : 424 pages ISBN : 0321658396 Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (10 July 2009) Language: : English Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile...
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
RRP: £35 Paperback : 424 pages ISBN : 0321658396 Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (10 July 2009) Language: : English Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile...