Wednesday 4th October 2023

09:00 GMT+1   (details to be confirmed)

Online

It’s six weeks to the SCiO Global mini-Conference and AGM on Wednesday 4th October 2023 – to be held online.

This is our first SCiO global meeting and we hope you will join us. The AGM will be held during the meeting – all can attend but only members can vote.  ALL ARE WELCOME.

Details will be updated on the SCiO website – see https://www.systemspractice.org/events/scio-global-mini-conference-and-agm.

Please book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/705259168157?aff=oddtdtcreator. Booking is FREE.

Details of speakers and sessions currently confirmed (not necessarily in this order!)

Whatever works – Adventures of a couple of systemic consultants in IT organizations – Ed van der Winden (SCiO NL)

In this light-hearted talk Ed van der Winden will share some of his experiences in trying to help IT departments move to a better place. A lot of systemic models have played a role in this: the talk will focus on examples of their practical use. Some of the more well-known models that will be discussed in this talk will be: The Viable System Model, causal loop diagrams and Fernando Flores’ conversations-for-action model. But also lesser known models have been used, such as the 4D-model for dealing with organizational stress (based on Perceptual Control Theory), Will McWhinney’s Paths of Change and the use of the makigami technique from Kaizen and Lean to ‘go to the gemba’.

The Purpose Thing….  – Patrick Hoverstadt

There is a split within Systems in both thinking and practice around purpose. Is it about ‘intention’ or is it about effects – the POSIWID position. This split is not limited to the field of systems, as an example it also splits the field of ethics, but for us in our discipline it has had enormous consequences. This talk will explore this from several angles – why the split exists, how different approaches are grouped either side of the split, how it has driven factionalism and mutual incomprehension  in the past and how the split itself represents one of the most fundamental issues in systems thinking and presents a dilemma for the systems practitioner and one that needs to be worked with. Finally we’ll look at the resolution of this in practice.

New Meta-systems Thinking for Regenerative Leadership – Jan de Visch (SCiO Belgium)

Socially, we see a trend in organizations toward being more conscious and sustainable. The number of companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint to zero is growing. To achieve this, new business and operational models are emerging, often focused on ecosystemic collaboration. Often a broad common ground is lacking, and one must cooperate in diversity.

The leadership required for this requires significantly better assessing the parties’ positions to influence ideas and solution developments in real time. Systemic thinking is a necessary requirement here but perhaps insufficient. Meta-systemic thinking is needed to handle the potential areas of tension in real-time and make evaluative comparisons between different systemic options. It is thinking based on assessing the blind spots in systemic thought processes.

Jan De Visch illustrates how this meta-systemic thinking leads to the estimation of new opportunities the way CEOs deal with climate challenges and develop a kind of regenerative leadership.

Additional sessions and speakers to be confirmed

SCiO Global mini-Conference and AGMWed 4 October 2023 09:00–13:00  GMT+1Organiser(s):SCiOEvent access:All welcome

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