What does it take to change local systems?Following on from two previous blogs (here and here) about our work in partnership with NPC as evaluation and learning partner to Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities (ELC) programme, in this blog we share key insights from the latest systems change evaluation report. The report summarises systems change learning over the last year from across the four Early Learning Communities: in Bettws, Newport; Feltham, London; Margate and Sheffield.

What does it take to change local systems? | by Collaborate CIC | Apr, 2022 | Collaborate

The Grammar of Systems

The Grammar of Systems | Major Projects Association

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Patrick Hoverstadt

Provides consultancy mainly in organisation design, strategy, business architecture and organisational change using systems approaches. He has developed a set of methodologies that provide different approaches for: organisational change, performance management, strategic risk, strategy, partnership governance and organisational agility. In his spare time he does a bit of academic work, for Manchester Business School and the OU and is a visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield. Patrick wrote Fractal Organisation published by Wiley, the section on the Viable Systems Model in the OU’s course text Systems Approaches to Managing Change and contributions to a number of other books on management and organisation. Together with his co-author, Lucy Loh, he published Patterns of Strategy with Gower – a book outlining a radically different and systemic approaches to business strategy. Most recently, he has published: The Grammar of Systems – From Order to Chaos and Back.

Bo Burnham: How The World Works

Bo Burnham: How The World Works – YouTube

Woah, meta. h/t Helena Gallbo

FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022)20-23 Sep 2022 Cergy-Pontoise (France)

FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022) – Sciencesconf.org

via Ivo Velitchkov

A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself“In principle, such neural networks can meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the sense of recursive self-improvement.”https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05780

(1) hardmaru on Twitter: “A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself “In principle, such neural networks can meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the sense of recursive self-improvement.” https://t.co/LnLRJXsoXc https://t.co/npLDP4ybSW” / Twitter

h/t Ivo Velitchkov

Structured systems analysis and design method

Structured systems analysis and design method – Wikipedia

How Can an Understanding of Living Systems Inform Systems Change? – Anna Birney

How Can an Understanding of Living Systems Inform Systems Change? – Anna Birney – YouTube

System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio ApproachesMARCH 28, 2022

System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio Approaches | United Nations Development Programme

Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in IndividualityRichard A. Watson1*, Michael Levin2,3 and Christopher L. Buckley4

Frontiers | Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality | Ecology and Evolution

Impact evaluation aided by Systems Thinking: shifting stakeholder mindsetEvent by Si Geneva HubTue, Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (your local time)OnlineEvent linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84338585810?pwd=N2JFVXNCcXlnOFc4eFJyRXFPZk01UT09

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New Horizons of Systems ScienceAPRIL 20 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDTVirtual EventFREE2022 Seminar Series – New Horizons of Systems Science – April 20

New Horizons of Systems Science – System Dynamics Society

Arnaldo PelliniJan 24·7 min read·ListenLiving in a World of Systems, excerpts from Donella Meadows

Living in a World of Systems, excerpts from Donella Meadows | by Arnaldo Pellini | Medium

Workshop 1) Systems thinking core concepts (online)Workshop 2) Systems mapping and analysis (online)Workshop 3) Working towards systemic change (in-person)

Workshop 1: Systems thinking core concepts – Think NPC

State of Science: Evolving Perspectives on ‘Human Error’July 2021Ergonomics 64(4):1-46 Follow journalDOI: 10.1080/00140139.2021.1953615Gemma ReadSteven ShorrockGuy H WalkerPaul Matthew Salmon

(15) (PDF) State of Science: Evolving Perspectives on ‘Human Error’

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with object–relational mapping.Example of an ORM2 diagramObject-role modeling (ORM) is used to model the semantics of a universe of discourse. ORM is often used for data modeling and software engineering.An object-role model uses graphical symbols that are based on first order predicate logic and set theory to enable the modeler to create an unambiguous definition of an arbitrary universe of discourse. Attribute free, the predicates of an ORM Model lend themselves to the analysis and design of graph database models in as much as ORM was originally conceived to benefit relational database design.

Object-role modeling – Wikipedia

See also http://www.orm.net/