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The Fractal Organisation Manual: How to diagnose & design organisations using the Viable System Model
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 192 pp; Publisher: SCiO; ISBN 979-8250847018 In a world of increasing turbulence, the need has never been greater for knowing how to build systems capable of maintaining their viability when all around them is change. This is a follow up to the Fractal Organization published by Wiley almost twenty years ago. It provides practical guidance on ways to use the Viable...
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The Fractal Organisation Manual: How to diagnose & design organisations using the Viable System Model
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 192 pp; Publisher: SCiO; ISBN 979-8250847018 In a world of increasing turbulence, the need has never been greater for knowing how to build systems capable of maintaining their viability when all around them is change. This is a follow up to the Fractal Organization published by Wiley almost twenty years ago. It provides practical guidance on ways to use the Viable...
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Methods for Systems Thinking: 65+ Practical Approaches for Exploring Systems, Perspectives, and Complexity
RRP: £28.85; Paperback: 270 pp; Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1041111719 Methods for Systems Thinking is a practical workbook with more than 65 methods you can apply right away. It helps you explore complex systems, involve the right people, and respond effectively to change. The QuickStart Guide shows you where to begin. You can start with the short theory section, use the 5M Methods Matrix...
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Methods for Systems Thinking: 65+ Practical Approaches for Exploring Systems, Perspectives, and Complexity
RRP: £28.85; Paperback: 270 pp; Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1041111719 Methods for Systems Thinking is a practical workbook with more than 65 methods you can apply right away. It helps you explore complex systems, involve the right people, and respond effectively to change. The QuickStart Guide shows you where to begin. You can start with the short theory section, use the 5M Methods Matrix...
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Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health
Published in The Lancet - Planetary Health - FREE DOWNLOAD ALL AUTHORS: Kelly Thornber, Matthew Bentham, Sharon Pfleger, Claas Kirchhelle, Fiona Adshead, Stewart Owen, Hayden Holmes, A Ross Brown, Caroline Farmer, Min Na Eii, Lydia Niemi, Lara Wöhler, Edward C F Wilson, Matthew J Wade, Wendy Tyler-Batt, Matthew Taylor, Georgina Sowman, Paul Southall, Richard Smith, Carol Routledge, John Redshaw...
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Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health
Published in The Lancet - Planetary Health - FREE DOWNLOAD ALL AUTHORS: Kelly Thornber, Matthew Bentham, Sharon Pfleger, Claas Kirchhelle, Fiona Adshead, Stewart Owen, Hayden Holmes, A Ross Brown, Caroline Farmer, Min Na Eii, Lydia Niemi, Lara Wöhler, Edward C F Wilson, Matthew J Wade, Wendy Tyler-Batt, Matthew Taylor, Georgina Sowman, Paul Southall, Richard Smith, Carol Routledge, John Redshaw...
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SSM Case Study
Developing and embedding an ecosystem map for the UK National Measurement System (NMS) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
PROJECT Developing and embedding an ecosystem map for the UK National Measurement System (NMS) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). PRACTITIONER Thomas Rowe, Systems Thinking Impact Manager, National Physical Laboratory SITUATION AND CONTEXT The UK’s NMS is a ~£100m per annum programme delivered on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and...
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Developing and embedding an ecosystem map for the UK National Measurement System (NMS) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
PROJECT Developing and embedding an ecosystem map for the UK National Measurement System (NMS) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). PRACTITIONER Thomas Rowe, Systems Thinking Impact Manager, National Physical Laboratory SITUATION AND CONTEXT The UK’s NMS is a ~£100m per annum programme delivered on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and...
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Systemisch-vernetztes Denken und Sustainability-Transformation
RRP: £45; Paperback: 395pp; Publisher: Springer Gabler; ISBN 978-3658486440 Dieses Buch bietet eine Darstellung von Frederic Vesters einflussreichen Arbeiten zum systemischen Denken und zur Sustainability-Transformation. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages dieses visionären Vordenkers versammelt der Band aktuelle Beiträge von Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Mitstreitern, Freunden und kritischen...
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Systemisch-vernetztes Denken und Sustainability-Transformation
RRP: £45; Paperback: 395pp; Publisher: Springer Gabler; ISBN 978-3658486440 Dieses Buch bietet eine Darstellung von Frederic Vesters einflussreichen Arbeiten zum systemischen Denken und zur Sustainability-Transformation. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages dieses visionären Vordenkers versammelt der Band aktuelle Beiträge von Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Mitstreitern, Freunden und kritischen...
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Values In Action: A Critical Systems Heuristics Workbook
Values in Action is a hands-on, thought-provoking and practical workbook designed to equip people with tools to explore, question, and strengthen the ethical and practical foundations of their and others' decision-making. The purpose of the workbook is to enable you and others make well-grounded claims that whatever you are doing is the right thing to do. That claim to ‘rightness’ is, individually...
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Values In Action: A Critical Systems Heuristics Workbook
Values in Action is a hands-on, thought-provoking and practical workbook designed to equip people with tools to explore, question, and strengthen the ethical and practical foundations of their and others' decision-making. The purpose of the workbook is to enable you and others make well-grounded claims that whatever you are doing is the right thing to do. That claim to ‘rightness’ is, individually...
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The 55 Minutes: An atlas to navigate problems, reveal systems, and ask beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
RRP: £18.41; Paperback: 572 pp; Publisher: Atco Spacelab; ISBN 978-1069483508 - also available as a FREE pdf download, follow link Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." This book is about how to use those metaphorical first fifty-five minutes wisely. If...
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The 55 Minutes: An atlas to navigate problems, reveal systems, and ask beautiful questions in a radically shifting world
RRP: £18.41; Paperback: 572 pp; Publisher: Atco Spacelab; ISBN 978-1069483508 - also available as a FREE pdf download, follow link Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." This book is about how to use those metaphorical first fifty-five minutes wisely. If...
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Konzepte der Komplexität: Eine sehr kurze Einführung
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing Dieses Buch bietet eine sehr kurze Einführung in das Themengebiet Komplexität und deren Anwendung in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Naturwissenschaften, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Management und mehr. Es stellt grundlegende Theorien und Modelle vor, die das Verständnis von Dynamiken, Interaktionen und Mustern in komplexen Systemen vertiefen...
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Konzepte der Komplexität: Eine sehr kurze Einführung
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing Dieses Buch bietet eine sehr kurze Einführung in das Themengebiet Komplexität und deren Anwendung in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Naturwissenschaften, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Management und mehr. Es stellt grundlegende Theorien und Modelle vor, die das Verständnis von Dynamiken, Interaktionen und Mustern in komplexen Systemen vertiefen...
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Concepts of Complexity
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing This book provides a very brief introduction to the topic of complexity and its application in various disciplines such as science, systems theory, cybernetics, management, and more. It presents fundamental theories and models that deepen the understanding of dynamics, interactions, and patterns in complex systems. Contributions by important...
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Concepts of Complexity
FREE to download 120 pp Publisher: SCiO Publishing This book provides a very brief introduction to the topic of complexity and its application in various disciplines such as science, systems theory, cybernetics, management, and more. It presents fundamental theories and models that deepen the understanding of dynamics, interactions, and patterns in complex systems. Contributions by important...
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Visualizations of the event
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Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
RRP: £18; Paperback: 267 pp; Publisher: Agendashift Press; ISBN 978-1068443602 How do leaders at all scales of organisation create the conditions for innovation, excellence, and performance? Initial clues are to be found in the Wholehearted organisation – one that recognises the leadership of those who find the right challenges to engage with, invite others into that process, and celebrate...
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Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
RRP: £18; Paperback: 267 pp; Publisher: Agendashift Press; ISBN 978-1068443602 How do leaders at all scales of organisation create the conditions for innovation, excellence, and performance? Initial clues are to be found in the Wholehearted organisation – one that recognises the leadership of those who find the right challenges to engage with, invite others into that process, and celebrate...
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Transforming Public Health Provision with Systems Thinking
Nirosha’s leadership and innovative approaches learnt through JGA’s Systems Thinking apprenticeship have transformed how her team tackles public health challenges, inspiring her colleagues to adopt more comprehensive and interconnected strategies. Currently, she has just secured a critical grant for her department off the back of systems thinking methodologies. Nirosha is also co-authoring a...
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Transforming Public Health Provision with Systems Thinking
Nirosha’s leadership and innovative approaches learnt through JGA’s Systems Thinking apprenticeship have transformed how her team tackles public health challenges, inspiring her colleagues to adopt more comprehensive and interconnected strategies. Currently, she has just secured a critical grant for her department off the back of systems thinking methodologies. Nirosha is also co-authoring a...
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Redefining Leadership: The Power of Systems Thinking in Creating More Equitable Access
Georgina Wilson, [a JGA STiP apprencticeship graduate] Founder and CEO of BUD Leaders, has spent over a decade pioneering systems change initiatives that empower Black and other Global Majority women in business. Through BUD Leaders, a pioneering black-led, female-led social enterprise, Georgina works to disrupt leadership structures and drive equity. Her organisation collaborates with large...
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Redefining Leadership: The Power of Systems Thinking in Creating More Equitable Access
Georgina Wilson, [a JGA STiP apprencticeship graduate] Founder and CEO of BUD Leaders, has spent over a decade pioneering systems change initiatives that empower Black and other Global Majority women in business. Through BUD Leaders, a pioneering black-led, female-led social enterprise, Georgina works to disrupt leadership structures and drive equity. Her organisation collaborates with large...
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Die Wunder der Natur - Geschichten über Komplexität
RRP: 29,99€ Paperback: 24 pp Publisher: Verlag; ISBN: 9783758342936 Begleite die Familie Fuchs dabei, wie sie gemeinsam die Wunder der Natur entdecken. Papa Fuchs, ein verkopfter Tüftler, beschäftigt sich gerne mit ungewöhnlichen Themen wie der Komplexität. Er versucht, diese auch seinen drei Kindern zu erklären, doch sie verstehen einfach nicht, was er damit meint. In sechs kurzen Geschichten...
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Die Wunder der Natur - Geschichten über Komplexität
RRP: 29,99€ Paperback: 24 pp Publisher: Verlag; ISBN: 9783758342936 Begleite die Familie Fuchs dabei, wie sie gemeinsam die Wunder der Natur entdecken. Papa Fuchs, ein verkopfter Tüftler, beschäftigt sich gerne mit ungewöhnlichen Themen wie der Komplexität. Er versucht, diese auch seinen drei Kindern zu erklären, doch sie verstehen einfach nicht, was er damit meint. In sechs kurzen Geschichten...
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opening the box: systems thinking for transformative conversations
NOTE: This book should be ordered through your local Amazon site. RRP: £5.00 (£2.00 kindle) Paperback: 56 pp Publisher: SCiO Publications; ASIN: B0DG36M38N ”opening the box" invites you to delve into the realms of systems thinking, by exploring four layers of ‘systems’: parts and wholes, nascent development, coherence, and metamorphosis. This book is for those who may not believe that they use...
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opening the box: systems thinking for transformative conversations
NOTE: This book should be ordered through your local Amazon site. RRP: £5.00 (£2.00 kindle) Paperback: 56 pp Publisher: SCiO Publications; ASIN: B0DG36M38N ”opening the box" invites you to delve into the realms of systems thinking, by exploring four layers of ‘systems’: parts and wholes, nascent development, coherence, and metamorphosis. This book is for those who may not believe that they use...
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New Horizons for VSM
The purpose of this paper is to explore the human dimension of the complex interactions which are a key feature of VSM. It focusses on personal emotions, power, conversations and relationships, and the tensions between personal identity and organisational identity, particularly in periods of organisational and strategic change. It draws on psychology, and the social sciences to provide a...
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New Horizons for VSM
The purpose of this paper is to explore the human dimension of the complex interactions which are a key feature of VSM. It focusses on personal emotions, power, conversations and relationships, and the tensions between personal identity and organisational identity, particularly in periods of organisational and strategic change. It draws on psychology, and the social sciences to provide a...
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Management Cybernetics as a General Framework to Successfully Implement Lean Management in Several Industries: Observations From the Construction Industry, Mechanical Engineering, and Healthcare
in Enacting Cybernetics: (2024) Vol.2 Issue 1, p2 (DOI: 10.58695/ec.12) Numerous lean transformation projects fail or do not achieve the desired performance and/or viability that is necessary for a sustainable implementation of lean management. However, there are some factors that support the successful implementation of lean management in day-to-day business. In the opinion of the authors, these...
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Management Cybernetics as a General Framework to Successfully Implement Lean Management in Several Industries: Observations From the Construction Industry, Mechanical Engineering, and Healthcare
in Enacting Cybernetics: (2024) Vol.2 Issue 1, p2 (DOI: 10.58695/ec.12) Numerous lean transformation projects fail or do not achieve the desired performance and/or viability that is necessary for a sustainable implementation of lean management. However, there are some factors that support the successful implementation of lean management in day-to-day business. In the opinion of the authors, these...
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Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner's Guide
RRP: £31.15; Hardback: 256 pp; Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-1394203574 Understand the full range of systems approaches and how to use them with this innovative overview. Leaders and managers face increasing complexity and uncertainty because technical, organizational, socio-cultural, political, and environmental issues have become intensely interconnected. Systems thinking is recognized as the...
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Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner's Guide
RRP: £31.15; Hardback: 256 pp; Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-1394203574 Understand the full range of systems approaches and how to use them with this innovative overview. Leaders and managers face increasing complexity and uncertainty because technical, organizational, socio-cultural, political, and environmental issues have become intensely interconnected. Systems thinking is recognized as the...
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Holistic Flexibility for Systems Thinking and Practice
RRP: £124 Hardback: 308 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032483009 [kindle - £30] This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking. Systems thinking is often associated with frameworks and methodologies that often confine the discipline to academic circles in operations research and management science (OR/MS). Holistic...
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Holistic Flexibility for Systems Thinking and Practice
RRP: £124 Hardback: 308 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032483009 [kindle - £30] This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking. Systems thinking is often associated with frameworks and methodologies that often confine the discipline to academic circles in operations research and management science (OR/MS). Holistic...
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The VSM Test & Guide
Links are to the VSM basic test and the VSM advanced test. Aim of the guide: This VSM guide serves as a quick and practical resource for understanding and applying the Viable System Model in organizational analysis and design. It should help to spread the powerful knowledge of management cybernetics.
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The VSM Test & Guide
Links are to the VSM basic test and the VSM advanced test. Aim of the guide: This VSM guide serves as a quick and practical resource for understanding and applying the Viable System Model in organizational analysis and design. It should help to spread the powerful knowledge of management cybernetics.
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Early Voices of Conscious Evolution: Insight and Inspiration from the Beginning of the Modern Era
RRP: £14; Paperback: 312 pp; Publisher: Plusvalent Press; ISBN 979-8989640300 Early Voices of Conscious Evolution is a unique anthology that brings to light a lesser-recognized yet critical dimension of human cultural and social history, opening a perspective that helps put today's dynamics into a broader and more empowering context. The period spanning the late 19th and early 20th century was...
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Early Voices of Conscious Evolution: Insight and Inspiration from the Beginning of the Modern Era
RRP: £14; Paperback: 312 pp; Publisher: Plusvalent Press; ISBN 979-8989640300 Early Voices of Conscious Evolution is a unique anthology that brings to light a lesser-recognized yet critical dimension of human cultural and social history, opening a perspective that helps put today's dynamics into a broader and more empowering context. The period spanning the late 19th and early 20th century was...
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Beyond the Five Whys: Root Cause Analysis and Systems Thinking
RRP: £38.59 Hardback: 352 pp Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-1394191055 A straightforward explanation of root cause analysis and systems thinking, illustrating, with real-world examples and first-hand accounts, why things can ‘slip through our fingers’ and what to do to reduce the chances of things going off track. Beyond the Five Whys summarises, for the first time, many of the tried and tested...
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Beyond the Five Whys: Root Cause Analysis and Systems Thinking
RRP: £38.59 Hardback: 352 pp Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-1394191055 A straightforward explanation of root cause analysis and systems thinking, illustrating, with real-world examples and first-hand accounts, why things can ‘slip through our fingers’ and what to do to reduce the chances of things going off track. Beyond the Five Whys summarises, for the first time, many of the tried and tested...
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Socio-Technical Theory (STS)
Abbas, R.& Michael, K. (2023) Socio-Technical Theory: A review. In S. Papagiannidis (Ed), TheoryHub Book. Free pdf download at https://open.ncl.ac.uk / ISBN: 9781739604400. Socio-technical theory originated in the 1950s at the Tavistock Institute in London (Ropohl, 1999), led by Trist and Bamforth (1951) and Emery (1993), resulting from industry-based action research focusing on coal mining (Fox...
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Socio-Technical Theory (STS)
Abbas, R.& Michael, K. (2023) Socio-Technical Theory: A review. In S. Papagiannidis (Ed), TheoryHub Book. Free pdf download at https://open.ncl.ac.uk / ISBN: 9781739604400. Socio-technical theory originated in the 1950s at the Tavistock Institute in London (Ropohl, 1999), led by Trist and Bamforth (1951) and Emery (1993), resulting from industry-based action research focusing on coal mining (Fox...
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Decrypting the DNA of Megaprojects: A Model-based Management Approach using the Viable System Model (VSM)
PM World Journal (ISSN: 2330-4480) Vol. XII, Issue II – February 2023 24pp The following article is an introduction to the design of megaproject organizations based on the viable system model. It combines approaches from project management with approaches from systems theory. The understanding of complexity and how it is effectively managed by the organizational code is a central theme. After...
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Decrypting the DNA of Megaprojects: A Model-based Management Approach using the Viable System Model (VSM)
PM World Journal (ISSN: 2330-4480) Vol. XII, Issue II – February 2023 24pp The following article is an introduction to the design of megaproject organizations based on the viable system model. It combines approaches from project management with approaches from systems theory. The understanding of complexity and how it is effectively managed by the organizational code is a central theme. After...
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Why Vancouver’s healthcare system won’t save us and what we should do about it
Systemic Change of the Healthcare System Systems thinking is an important component of the design field that looks at the complexity of a diverse group of entities and how they are all interrelated to form an “ecosystem.” Each entity is connected to the others through the direct flow of resources or indirectly via an intricate web of relationships. One change within a system impacts every other...
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Why Vancouver’s healthcare system won’t save us and what we should do about it
Systemic Change of the Healthcare System Systems thinking is an important component of the design field that looks at the complexity of a diverse group of entities and how they are all interrelated to form an “ecosystem.” Each entity is connected to the others through the direct flow of resources or indirectly via an intricate web of relationships. One change within a system impacts every other...
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Developing a Systems Thinking Lens for Collective Leadership
The work of Collective Leadership for Scotland has been based upon the five components: Practices that support self; Understanding complexity; Curiosity and inquiring stance; Relational; and Working more comfortably with emergence. One of these components is about understanding complexity and the role of systems thinking as we seek to work on complex societal issues. This resource is offered as a...
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Developing a Systems Thinking Lens for Collective Leadership
The work of Collective Leadership for Scotland has been based upon the five components: Practices that support self; Understanding complexity; Curiosity and inquiring stance; Relational; and Working more comfortably with emergence. One of these components is about understanding complexity and the role of systems thinking as we seek to work on complex societal issues. This resource is offered as a...
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Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7
Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7 Delivered by Cherith Simmons Leadership and Development in partnership with SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the professional body for systems practitioners in the UK. The broadest and deepest master’s level systems thinking course available to apprentices in the UK. 100% UK Government funded through an employer’s apprenticeship...
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Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7
Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship – Level 7 Delivered by Cherith Simmons Leadership and Development in partnership with SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the professional body for systems practitioners in the UK. The broadest and deepest master’s level systems thinking course available to apprentices in the UK. 100% UK Government funded through an employer’s apprenticeship...
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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II: Living in the Loop
Free download; Pdf files: 389 pp; Publisher: Academic Press; ISBN 978-032391165-8 Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary. This handbook applies Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to achieve a much needed convergence across the physical, life and social sciences, the humanities and arts. In doing so it...
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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II: Living in the Loop
Free download; Pdf files: 389 pp; Publisher: Academic Press; ISBN 978-032391165-8 Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary. This handbook applies Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to achieve a much needed convergence across the physical, life and social sciences, the humanities and arts. In doing so it...
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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in Action (Systems Thinking)
RRP: £27.20 Paperback: 312 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032354972 Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply...
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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in Action (Systems Thinking)
RRP: £27.20 Paperback: 312 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032354972 Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply...
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33 Systemgesetze und -prinzipien: Auszug aus dem Buch The Grammar of Systems
RRP: 6.00€ Kindle: 144 pp Publisher: SCiO; ASIN B0BNGL6WW5 Diese vorliegende Zusammenstellung von 33 Systemgesetzen und -prinzipien wurde dem Buch „The Grammar of Systems“ entnommen. Das „Grammar“ umfasst zwei Bücher in einem. In beiden Teilen geht es um System Thinking, die Disziplin, welche entwickelt wurde, um sich mit Komplexität und Unsicherheit auseinanderzusetzen. Das erste Buch erklärt...
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33 Systemgesetze und -prinzipien: Auszug aus dem Buch The Grammar of Systems
RRP: 6.00€ Kindle: 144 pp Publisher: SCiO; ASIN B0BNGL6WW5 Diese vorliegende Zusammenstellung von 33 Systemgesetzen und -prinzipien wurde dem Buch „The Grammar of Systems“ entnommen. Das „Grammar“ umfasst zwei Bücher in einem. In beiden Teilen geht es um System Thinking, die Disziplin, welche entwickelt wurde, um sich mit Komplexität und Unsicherheit auseinanderzusetzen. Das erste Buch erklärt...
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Designing Intelligent Construction Projects
RRP: £54.95 Paperback: 252 pp Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 978-1119690825 Designing Intelligent Construction Projects Explore the potential impact of management cybernetics, lean methodologies, and digitalization on the construction sector As a heavily asset-driven industry, construction is at the crossroads of a transformation. Digitalization has already begun and is acting as a beacon...
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Designing Intelligent Construction Projects
RRP: £54.95 Paperback: 252 pp Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 978-1119690825 Designing Intelligent Construction Projects Explore the potential impact of management cybernetics, lean methodologies, and digitalization on the construction sector As a heavily asset-driven industry, construction is at the crossroads of a transformation. Digitalization has already begun and is acting as a beacon...
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Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
RRP: £15.99 Hardback: 352 pp Publisher: Allen Lane; ISBN 978-0241447642 Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and...
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Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
RRP: £15.99 Hardback: 352 pp Publisher: Allen Lane; ISBN 978-0241447642 Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and...
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Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations
RRP: £30.32 Paperback: 280 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032110707 Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations explores sustainability in the context of organisational practice and its implications for learning. Based on a systems thinking approach, it provides a thorough grounding in the principles of systems thinking and tools that can be used to help implement sustainability...
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Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations
RRP: £30.32 Paperback: 280 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1032110707 Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations explores sustainability in the context of organisational practice and its implications for learning. Based on a systems thinking approach, it provides a thorough grounding in the principles of systems thinking and tools that can be used to help implement sustainability...
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Autopoiesis: An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Self-creation in Living Beings and Organizations
RRP: £11.50 Paperback: 100 pp ; ISBN: 978-3756205677 (also available in German) Who is able to synchronize the work of 100 trillion suborganizations? Who can accelerate every single process by a factor of 100 billion? Which organization has a growth rate of 100% in 20 minutes? Which organization survives and growths since 4 billion years? Life is the ultimate best-of-best-benchmark for...
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Autopoiesis: An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Self-creation in Living Beings and Organizations
RRP: £11.50 Paperback: 100 pp ; ISBN: 978-3756205677 (also available in German) Who is able to synchronize the work of 100 trillion suborganizations? Who can accelerate every single process by a factor of 100 billion? Which organization has a growth rate of 100% in 20 minutes? Which organization survives and growths since 4 billion years? Life is the ultimate best-of-best-benchmark for...
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The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back
RRP: £12.99 Paperback: 245 pp: Publisher: SCiO; ISBN: 979-8414307754 If you feel as though the world has become more complex, you are not alone. There is a growing realisation of the need to deal with the complexity, uncertainty and speed of change of our world. These systemic factors increase the challenge for all of us and expose some traditional approaches which are unable to handle those...
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The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back
RRP: £12.99 Paperback: 245 pp: Publisher: SCiO; ISBN: 979-8414307754 If you feel as though the world has become more complex, you are not alone. There is a growing realisation of the need to deal with the complexity, uncertainty and speed of change of our world. These systemic factors increase the challenge for all of us and expose some traditional approaches which are unable to handle those...
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Geen samenwerken zonder samendenken: maak met je team de sprong naar duurzame bedrijfsontwikkeling
RRP: £47.59 Paperback: 282 pp Publisher: Lannoo Campus ISBN : 978-9401481830 Wat zijn de fundamenten voor duurzame ontwikkeling van bedrijf en mens? Hoe creëer je échte doorbraken in de kwaliteit van samenwerking? Hoe herontwerp je de organisatie van werk zo, dat de strategie gerealiseerd wordt? De meerderheid van de bedrijven slaagt er niet in wendbare organisatievormen in hun werking te...
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Geen samenwerken zonder samendenken: maak met je team de sprong naar duurzame bedrijfsontwikkeling
RRP: £47.59 Paperback: 282 pp Publisher: Lannoo Campus ISBN : 978-9401481830 Wat zijn de fundamenten voor duurzame ontwikkeling van bedrijf en mens? Hoe creëer je échte doorbraken in de kwaliteit van samenwerking? Hoe herontwerp je de organisatie van werk zo, dat de strategie gerealiseerd wordt? De meerderheid van de bedrijven slaagt er niet in wendbare organisatievormen in hun werking te...
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Cell Culture: A business novel about designing thriving organizations by bionic principles
RRP: £8.99 Kindle eBook: 444 pp ASIN B09RV8SS9G English (also available in German) Nature accomplished four billion years ago what companies are still struggling with today: successful organizations that master all environmental change and endure in the long run. Understand how companies can leverage life's success principles to keep pace with 21st century change and become an adaptive and...
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Cell Culture: A business novel about designing thriving organizations by bionic principles
RRP: £8.99 Kindle eBook: 444 pp ASIN B09RV8SS9G English (also available in German) Nature accomplished four billion years ago what companies are still struggling with today: successful organizations that master all environmental change and endure in the long run. Understand how companies can leverage life's success principles to keep pace with 21st century change and become an adaptive and...
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13pp - CSH Case Study
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent
Article in Critical Social Policy Vol 42, issue 4 [free to read and download] Discharge to Assess (D2A) models of care have been developed to expedite the process of discharging hospital patients as soon as they are medically fit to leave, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system. This article focuses on the implementation of a D2A model in Kent, England, which...
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13pp - CSH Case Study
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent
Article in Critical Social Policy Vol 42, issue 4 [free to read and download] Discharge to Assess (D2A) models of care have been developed to expedite the process of discharging hospital patients as soon as they are medically fit to leave, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system. This article focuses on the implementation of a D2A model in Kent, England, which...
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Systems convening: a crucial form of leadership for the 21st century
RRP: £4.85 (pdf download is FREE) Paperback: 124 pp Publisher: Social Learning Lab ISBN 978-9895329007 The book shines a light on the important work that many people are doing around the world. You may not have heard about them; what they do is rarely in their job description. You may not even be aware of what they do; they tend to act as enablers rather than taking credit or seeking the...
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Systems convening: a crucial form of leadership for the 21st century
RRP: £4.85 (pdf download is FREE) Paperback: 124 pp Publisher: Social Learning Lab ISBN 978-9895329007 The book shines a light on the important work that many people are doing around the world. You may not have heard about them; what they do is rarely in their job description. You may not even be aware of what they do; they tend to act as enablers rather than taking credit or seeking the...
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Thinking Systems: An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival
RRP: £10 Paperback: 228 pp Publisher: Triarchy Press; ISBN 1913743321 A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike. In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective generates new insights, particularly into the problems that we face in the stewardship of our planet. It explains how a process-based...
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Thinking Systems: An Organic Language of Harmony for Human Survival
RRP: £10 Paperback: 228 pp Publisher: Triarchy Press; ISBN 1913743321 A guide and exploration for newcomers and experienced Systems Thinkers alike. In Thinking Systems Robin Asby explores Systems Thinking from a process perspective and shows how this perspective generates new insights, particularly into the problems that we face in the stewardship of our planet. It explains how a process-based...
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The Little (illustrated) Book of Operational Forecasting: A short introduction to the practice and pitfalls of short term forecasting - and how to increase its value to the business
RRP: £10.49; Paperback: 192 pp; Publisher: Troubador Publishing; Language: English; ISBN : 9781789013429 This is a guidebook about short term Operational Forecasting - the sort that is done to determine how much product you need to source or how many people you need to draft in to meet customer demand.
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The Little (illustrated) Book of Operational Forecasting: A short introduction to the practice and pitfalls of short term forecasting - and how to increase its value to the business
RRP: £10.49; Paperback: 192 pp; Publisher: Troubador Publishing; Language: English; ISBN : 9781789013429 This is a guidebook about short term Operational Forecasting - the sort that is done to determine how much product you need to source or how many people you need to draft in to meet customer demand.
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Management von Groß- und Megaprojekten im Bauwesen
RRP 49,99 €; vHerausgeber : Springer Vieweg; 1. Aufl. 2021 Edition (5. Januar 2021); Taschenbuch : 202 Seiten; Sprache : Deutsch; ISBN : 3658309822 Groß - und Megaprojekte zeichnen sich besonders durch Ihre Komplexität aus. Damit wirksam umzugehen, ist Gegenstand dieses „Management“-Buches. Dabei werden die den Organisationssystemen zu Grunde liegenden Strukturen mit Ansätzen aus den System- und...
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Management von Groß- und Megaprojekten im Bauwesen
RRP 49,99 €; vHerausgeber : Springer Vieweg; 1. Aufl. 2021 Edition (5. Januar 2021); Taschenbuch : 202 Seiten; Sprache : Deutsch; ISBN : 3658309822 Groß - und Megaprojekte zeichnen sich besonders durch Ihre Komplexität aus. Damit wirksam umzugehen, ist Gegenstand dieses „Management“-Buches. Dabei werden die den Organisationssystemen zu Grunde liegenden Strukturen mit Ansätzen aus den System- und...
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Viable Project Business: A Bionic Management System for Large Enterprises
RRP: £106.91 Paperback: 384 pp Publisher: Springer;1st ed. 2021 edition; ISBN: 978-3030629069 This book develops best practices for collaboration between teams within large organizations, and demonstrates how an optimal environment for teamwork can improve business processes. To do so, it analyzes the system dynamics of living organisms and applies the results to the business environment. The...
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Viable Project Business: A Bionic Management System for Large Enterprises
RRP: £106.91 Paperback: 384 pp Publisher: Springer;1st ed. 2021 edition; ISBN: 978-3030629069 This book develops best practices for collaboration between teams within large organizations, and demonstrates how an optimal environment for teamwork can improve business processes. To do so, it analyzes the system dynamics of living organisms and applies the results to the business environment. The...
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Essential Balances: Stop Looking and Start Seeing What Makes Organizations Work
RRP: £13.35 Paperback: 280 pp Publisher: KVISTGAARD; ISBN 978-1838338619 If you are a manager or leader in an organization – company or public service – or you are simply interested in how to make your organization work better, then this book is for you. If you have the feeling that you are skating over the surface of what is really going on in your organization, if you know that there is...
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Essential Balances: Stop Looking and Start Seeing What Makes Organizations Work
RRP: £13.35 Paperback: 280 pp Publisher: KVISTGAARD; ISBN 978-1838338619 If you are a manager or leader in an organization – company or public service – or you are simply interested in how to make your organization work better, then this book is for you. If you have the feeling that you are skating over the surface of what is really going on in your organization, if you know that there is...
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Covid-19: why did the virus take us by surprise? What we can learn from Covid-19 about the control of systems and organizations based on the Viable System Model
The Covid-19 crisis is a cataclysmic event and caught us all by surprise. It is considered a health and economic crisis, but at the same time and rarely discussed, it also reveals the weaknesses in the systemic processes in our society and organizations. The Viable System Model (VSM) by Stafford Beer allows us to structure the various weaknesses and to put them into a coherent framework. The VSM...
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Covid-19: why did the virus take us by surprise? What we can learn from Covid-19 about the control of systems and organizations based on the Viable System Model
The Covid-19 crisis is a cataclysmic event and caught us all by surprise. It is considered a health and economic crisis, but at the same time and rarely discussed, it also reveals the weaknesses in the systemic processes in our society and organizations. The Viable System Model (VSM) by Stafford Beer allows us to structure the various weaknesses and to put them into a coherent framework. The VSM...
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Die dritte Dimension des Organisierens: Steuerung und Kommunikation
RRP: 35 € Paperback : 360 pages ISBN : 978-3658292461 Publisher : Springer Gabler; 1. Aufl. 2020 edition (10 Jun. 2020) Language: Deutsch Es ist ein offenes Geheimnis: Unsere Organisationen funktionieren mehr schlecht als recht. Darin liegt das Kernproblem und überraschenderweise zugleich die Lösung. Denn wir brauchen keine neuen Konzepte und Rahmenbedingungen, wir brauchen keine besseren...
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Die dritte Dimension des Organisierens: Steuerung und Kommunikation
RRP: 35 € Paperback : 360 pages ISBN : 978-3658292461 Publisher : Springer Gabler; 1. Aufl. 2020 edition (10 Jun. 2020) Language: Deutsch Es ist ein offenes Geheimnis: Unsere Organisationen funktionieren mehr schlecht als recht. Darin liegt das Kernproblem und überraschenderweise zugleich die Lösung. Denn wir brauchen keine neuen Konzepte und Rahmenbedingungen, wir brauchen keine besseren...
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System Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis: Practical guide with examples for the design of industrial, economic, biological, engineering and environmental models.
RRP: £34.41 Paperback: 339 pp Publisher: Independently published ; ISBN 979-8649370226 This book offers a time-efficient approach for readers to acquire step-by-step knowledge in the formation and construction of dynamic models using Vensim. It addresses the challenge of working with minimal current and historical data by providing simulation models that accommodate such analyses. By...
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System Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis: Practical guide with examples for the design of industrial, economic, biological, engineering and environmental models.
RRP: £34.41 Paperback: 339 pp Publisher: Independently published ; ISBN 979-8649370226 This book offers a time-efficient approach for readers to acquire step-by-step knowledge in the formation and construction of dynamic models using Vensim. It addresses the challenge of working with minimal current and historical data by providing simulation models that accommodate such analyses. By...
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Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams (Management for Professionals)
RRP: £45 Paperback: 244 pp Publisher: Springer ISBN : 978-3030425517 This book provides senior managers, project- and program managers, team coaches and team leaders with thought and management tools for potentiating self-organization and creating collaborative intelligence in teams. Adapted and expanded from the 2018 Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative...
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Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams (Management for Professionals)
RRP: £45 Paperback: 244 pp Publisher: Springer ISBN : 978-3030425517 This book provides senior managers, project- and program managers, team coaches and team leaders with thought and management tools for potentiating self-organization and creating collaborative intelligence in teams. Adapted and expanded from the 2018 Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative...