Development and application of ‘systems thinking’ principles for quality improvement
Development and application of ‘systems thinking’ principles for quality improvement | BMJ Open Quality
Development and application of ‘systems thinking’ principles for quality improvement
16 – On doing “being ordinary”Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010ByHarvey SacksEdited byJ. Maxwell Atkinson
On doing “being ordinary” (Chapter 16) – Structures of Social Action
[I urge you to get beyond the abstract, it is worth it!]
What we talk about when we talk about context
What we talk about when we talk about context | SpringerLink
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing volume 8, pages19–30 (2004)Cite this article
The emergence of ubiquitous computing as a new design paradigm poses significant challenges for human-computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. Traditionally, HCI has taken place within a constrained and well-understood domain of experience—single users sitting at desks and interacting with conventionally-designed computers employing screens, keyboards and mice for interaction. New opportunities have engendered considerable interest in “context-aware computing”—computational systems that can sense and respond to aspects of the settings in which they are used. However, considerable confusion surrounds the notion of “context”—what it means, what it includes and what role it plays in interactive systems. This paper suggests that the representational stance implied by conventional interpretations of “context” misinterprets the role of context in everyday human activity, and proposes an alternative model that suggests different directions for design.
Presidents Series 20 Cybernetics and Tribal Dynamics
15 Sept 20220
Omar Kharoti discusses Cybernetics and Tribal Dynamics followed by James Bryant introducing a conversation about Discovering Cybernetics
(1) Presidents Series 20 Cybernetics and Tribal Dynamics – YouTube
INFORMATION THEORY
How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
Kevin Hartnett
September 6, 2022
Abstractions blogcomputer scienceexplainersinformation theorymathematicsAll topics
If someone tells you a fact you already know, they’ve essentially told you nothing at all. Whereas if they impart a secret, it’s fair to say something has really been communicated.How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication
How Claude Shannon’s Concept of Entropy Quantifies Information | Quanta Magazine
Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety
Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety
https://daily.stoa.com/category/systems-thinking
The Complexity Lounge
New York, NY, USA
The study of complexity helps us to be open to new perspectives, consider non-linear non-causal relationships, and encourages an experimental mindset. We created the NYC Complexity Lounge to discuss Complexity Science, Complex Adaptive Systems, Organizational Change, and Agile / Adaptive approaches to work and everyday life. We share case studies and discuss the latest advances in complexity thinking. We also talk about sense-making principles and tools from the Cynefin Framework.
The Complexity Lounge
https://www.meetup.com/complexity-lounge/
Organizations and Subjectivism Pt. 1Published on September 14, 2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_RogerianaNovi MilenkovicNavigating Complexity5 articles FollowingPrefaceOrganization is a human way of dealing with the complexity of the world(1). When I say organization, I don’t mean strictly an enterprise, but any kind of formal or informal organization that brings people together under shared purpose or a promise of an incentive—from book clubs or social activism, to startups or corporations… Organization facilitates creation of order, and order is a low entropy state. It’s how we make our existence more bearable in a universe that otherwise craves disorder. It’s well prepared food, electric cars or skyscrapers that are built by organizing matter into states that could possibly occur, but are highly improbable. It’s the laws, theories or knowledge that we expand to decrease the uncertainty in the world. The entropic concept I’m referring to is not thermodynamic entropy, but statistical entropy, which is a property of a probability distribution, not a real system, and as such is lacking any inherent semantics, it’s a purely syntactic concept(2) If something is ordered it is constrained to the point where future outcomes are predictable as long as the constraints can be sustained(3). It does not matter if we talk about service (an activity) or a product (a physical or a digital object), if the constraints are clear and the causality is linear—it’s order. Consequently, if we understand the causality, we can replicate the outcome.
(1) Organizations and Subjectivism Pt. 1 | LinkedIn
The thermodynamics of life taking shapeby Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS)
The thermodynamics of life taking shape
Complexity and LeadershipEdited By Kiran Chauhan, Emma Crewe, Chris MowlesCopyright Year 2023Paperback£34.99Hardback£120.00eBook£31.49ISBN 9780367551599Published September 12, 2022 by Routledge266 Pages
Complexity and Leadership – 1st Edition – Kiran Chauhan – Emma Crewe
#NewMacy Studios @RSD11
#NewMacy Studios @RSD11 · #NewMacy
by NewMacy 22/8/2022
Pille Bunnell, Carlos Castellanos, Damian Chapman, Kate Doyle, Xiao Zoe Fang, Mikal Giancola, Michael Lieber, TJ McLeish, Paul Pangaro, Eve Pinsker, Eryk Salvaggio, Larry Richards, Fred Steier, Mark Sullivan, Claudia Westermann
#NewMacy emerged in March 2020 as the pandemic of COVID became the newest global wicked challenge. Since then little has changed in the fights against pandemics of biology and technology, racism and structural inequities, environment and economics. We embrace the timespan of RSD11 as “the long now” in recognition that these systemic challenges require new scales of effort and expectation across generations. We invoke the original Macy Meetings, which arose from a recognition that understanding purposive systems would be essential for addressing the failures of WWII. In the 21st-century, #NewMacy catalyzes conversations for action across disciplines, geographies, and generations through systemic principles, processes, and communities. #NewMacy creates conditions for enacting productive responses among individuals and communities that bring about change in the near-term, while planning for and committing to the time-span required to effect lasting change.
Our current focus is a new framing for “ontogenesis,” specifically, that of developing new ways of becoming. To survive in a changing world, we must embrace resilience in lieu of security interpreted as constancy. Hence we substitute ontogenetic resilience as our framing intention — and Cybernetics as key.
How might we practice ontogenetic resilience? We begin by embracing the human as the basic unit of change. Conversation is the unifying process. We adopt a structure of themed and design-led “Studios” that are explorations of ontogenetic principles. These Studios identify cultural sites where ontogenetic resilience is needed and where we may pursue inclusive and recursive modes of experimentation. The purpose of the #NewMacy Studio construct is to enable deep participation through activities such as prototyping, play, exploration, enactment, and improvisation. The following Studios at RSD11 will enact conversations for action across the middle days of the symposium:
After the Studios we will all gather for a final conversation to consider: What’s next? How do we grow into an increasingly inclusive ecosystem of Studios? What new, vital activities will we design? The dialogue, collaboration, and matchmaking performed in this session serve as the means for a recursive process of integration and synthesis, one directed toward ongoing, empathetic, intelligent, and sustainable action.
Keywords: Pandemics, wicked challenges, second-order Cybernetics, systemic change, ontological security, conversation, ontogenetic resilience, recursive feedback.
Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series — The Story of Sync (Lecture II of II)Steven StrogatzCommunity Event7:30 pm US Mountain TimeSeptember 21, 2022Speaker: Steven Strogatz
Events: Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series — The Story of Sync (Lecture II of II) | Santa Fe Institute
RIP Richard Cook.
Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail”
Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail” – YouTube
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BATESON ANNIVERSARIES WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR GENERAL SEMANTICS
“The Map is not the Territory”
WEDNESDAY—September 21st
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We are excited to invite you to the Bateson Anniversaries special two-hour session with The Institute for General Semantics titled—The Map is not the Territory—a term famously coined by Alfred Korzybski. We share the following essay before our session, taken from the text of Gregory Bateson’s talk at the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1970—Form, Substance and Difference.
Bateson reminds us that the differences are what make it on the map and that differences have differences. What differences do you perceive?
“We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? What is on the paper map is a representation…The territory never gets in at all. Always the process of representation will filter it out so that the mental world is only maps of maps of maps, ad infinitum . All ‘phenomena’ are literally ‘appearances’… the delimitation of an individual mind must always depend upon what phenomena we wish to understand or explain.” (Gregory Bateson, 1970)
In 1933, decades before the Memorial Lecture, Korzybski writes,
“Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. If the map could be ideally correct, it would include, in a reduced scale, the map of the map; the map of the map of the map; and so on, endlessly… If we reflect upon our languages, we find that at best they must be considered only as maps. A word is not the object it represents; and languages exhibit also this peculiar self-reflexiveness, that we can analyze languages by linguistic means. This self-reflexiveness of language introduces serious complexities… The disregard of these complexities is tragically disastrous in daily life and science. (Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, 1933, p. 58).
We look forward to digging into the territory together with you.
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FINANCIAL AND MONETARY SYSTEMS
Everything from technology to living organisms is becoming more complex. This is why
Aug 30, 2022
This article is published in collaboration withThe Conversation.
Complexity can develop the ability to manage, control and navigate the complexity it has constructed.
Ragnar van der Merwe
PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
Alex Broadbent
Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
How to navigate an increasingly complex world | World Economic Forum
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