Six Variations of the VSM
Six Variations of the VSM – Intelligente-Organisationen
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The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond | Goodbun and Sweeting (2021)
The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond Authors Jon Goodbun Royal College of Art Ben Sweeting University of Brighton
The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond | FOOTPRINT
Systems diagramming: art or craft? Open University, Tue 22 Feb 2022 at 12:00 UK time – free
FEB 22 Systems diagramming: art or craft? by The Open University, Faculty of STEM
Systems diagramming: art or craft? Tickets, Tue 22 Feb 2022 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics | Umpleby (2018)
Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics
[PDF] Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics | Semantic Scholar
Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics
- S. Umpleby
- Published 2018
- Political Science
Systems Science, cybernetics and complexity are closely related fields. To illustrate, this article describes two projects in contemporary cybernetics that may be of interest to those concerned with complexity and policy studies. The first project is an effort to expand the conception of science so that it more successfully encompasses the social sciences. The intent is to aid communication among disciplines and improve our ability to manage social systems. The second project is an effort to develop reflexivity theory into a general theory of purposeful, self-directed systems, thus improving our understanding and management of social systems. The article ends with some comparisons of complexity and cybernetics.
The basic outline of universology – (1872 edition) | Stephen Pearl Andrews (discovered by Matthew Shapiro)
An edition of The basic outline of universology (1872) The basic outline of universology. An introduction to the newly discovered science of the universe; its elementary principles; and the first stages of their development in the special sciences. Together with preliminary notices of alwato (ahl-wah-to), the newly discovered scientific universal language, resulting from the principles of universology. by Stephen Pearl Andrews
The basic outline of universology. (1872 edition) | Open Library
(link above includes a downloadable pdf)
In The Ecology of Systems Thinking Group on facebook, Matthew Shapiro posted this book https://www.facebook.com/groups/ecologyofsystemsthinking/posts/4816990621713377/
And said:
The evolutionary awakening in the mid-1800’s gave rise to a lot of interesting thoughts. Could this one be a first example of a call for “systems science” in the modern era?
I could upload this boook and his 1871 book to this site if anyone wants to spend a few weeks exploring it. (Interesting side note: he was one of the first to use the neologism “scientology”). Below is an intro.
If nothing else, I love his word “betweenity”.
In response, Örsan Şenalp said: this is an original approach to unified science (perhaps a first attempt) from the subject matter point of view. It is an integrative proposal that sounds very similar to systems line of thinking.
ICREA-Complex Systems Lab
Welcome to our lab,
The ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, lead by Ricard Solé, is part of the Biology Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra/PRBB and member of the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva. We are an interdisciplinary team exploring the evolution of complex systems, both natural and artificial, searching for their common laws of organization. We do both theoretical and experimental work, closely working in collaboration with the Santa Fe Institute. We study the origins and evolution of complex systems and the boundaries of such complexity (and how to break them) using methods from statistical physics, synthetic/systems biology and network theory.
http://complex.upf.edu/
Bateson, Double Description, Todes, and Embodiment: Preparing Activities and Their Relation to Abduction – Shotter (2009)
Bateson, Double Description, Todes, and Embodiment: Preparing Activities and Their Relation to Abduction JOHN SHOTTER First published: 29 May 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00399.xCitations: 21 John Shotter
Bateson, Double Description, Todes, and Embodiment: Preparing Activities and Their Relation to Abduction – SHOTTER – 2009 – Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour – Wiley Online Library
and at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.se/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00399.x
The Viable Systems Model in the ISO standard on governance, and UK government initiative on managing complex projects
In a reply on LinkedIn, Patrick Hoverstadt says:
the new ISO standard on governance is heavily influenced by VSM and the UK government’s initiative on managing complex projects – ‘Project X’ has VSM at the core of its governance model: https://www.apm.org.uk/media/42426/developing-the-practice-of-governance-report_final.pdf You don’t really get more mainstream acceptance than an ISO standard.
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ISO 37000:2021
GOVERNANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS
https://www.iso.org/news/ref2717.html
APM Developing the practice of governance final report December 2019 https://www.apm.org.uk/media/42426/developing-the-practice-of-governance-report_final.pdf
Project X https://www.bettergovprojects.com/
Yohan John on Twitter: “Reductionist metaphysics resembles the medieval ‘Great Chain of Being’…
Reductionist metaphysics resembles the medieval ‘Great Chain of Being’, stepping from leptons and quarks (or perhaps superstrings?) through atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, populations and finally ecologies/economies.
(1) Yohan John on Twitter: “Reductionist metaphysics resembles the medieval ‘Great Chain of Being’, stepping from leptons and quarks (or perhaps superstrings?) through atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, populations and finally ecologies/economies. (…) https://t.co/iBPD9I8qWR” / Twitter
The Cybernetics of “Here & Now” and “There & Then”:
Harish is one of those rare people who so completely gets it that he can *actually* communicate it.
In today’s post, I am looking at difference. Difference is a big concept in Cybernetics. As Ross Ashby noted:
The most fundamental concept in cybernetics is that of “difference”, either that two things are recognizably different or that one thing has changed with time.
In Cybernetics, the goal is to eliminate the difference. If we take an example of a steersman on a boat, they are continuously trying to correct their course so that they can reach their destination correctly. The course has set the path, and any difference due to environmental conditions or other things will need to be corrected. This is a negative feedback cycle, where the current value is compared against a set value, and any difference will trigger an action from the steersman. If the steersman has enough variety, in terms of experience or technology, they can easily correct the difference.
We can see from the…
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Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren podcast #36 – [The Chapman Series, Pt. 1] Cognitivism, Representationalism, and Rationalism
https://doexplain.buzzsprout.com/1260167/9954747-36-the-chapman-series-pt-1-cognitivism-representationalism-and-rationalism
This is part 1 of a series where Christofer investigates the ideas of David Chapman with his friend Jake Orthwein. The material covered is mainly from Chapman’s two books: ‘Meaningness’ (meaningness.com) and ‘In the Cells of the Eggplant’ (metarationality.com).
In the first episode they focus on problematic cognitivist assumptions that undergird much of Deutsch’s critical rationalism. They talk about Heidegger’s idea of coping with the world, the relationship between cognition, perception and action, how representations get their meaning, and how Wittgenstein got some shit right.
Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.
SYSTAC European Hub – Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
SYSTAC EUROPEAN HUB
SYSTAC European Hub – Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
Systems approaches to strengthening health system resilience: Key concepts and lessons from COVID-19: 10 February 2022, 13:00 CET
Systems Approaches to Strengthening Health Care Resilience: Key Concepts & Lessons from COVID-19
Webinar Registration – Zoom
10Webinar – Systems approaches to strengthening health system resilience: Key concepts and lessons from COVID-19Date: February 10, 2022 12:09 PM – 2:00 PM CETOnline event: https://unige.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AdqMGV4aSWuyxATZAK7OMQDropdownAdd to calendar10Days21Hours10Minutes05Seconds
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On 10 February 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 CET join us for the webinar: Systems approaches to strengthening health system resilience: Key concepts and lessons from COVID-19.
The seminar will present the key concepts of health system resilience and stages of a shock as they relate to systems thinking, and will discuss strategies for building resilience from the evidence and lessons learned during COVID-19 in the European region.
Facilitators:
Prof. Karl Blanchet, Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, and Dr Dell Saulnier, Lund University, Co-leads of SYSTAC European Hub.
Panellists:
Prof. Steve Thomas Trinity College Dublin. Prof. Thomas is the Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of Health Policy and Engagement for the School of Medicine. He is the lead author of the ’Strengthening health systems resilience: Key concepts and strategies’ report from the European Observatory.
Anna Sagan London School of Economics and Political Science. Anna is a Research Fellow at LSE and an Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research areas include health system resilience, health insurance, and health system value. She is the Editor of the ’Health systems resilience during COVID-19: Lessons for building back better’ report from the European Observatory.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://unige.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AdqMGV4aSWuyxATZAK7OMQ
How to contact the organizer
Systems Thinking Accelerator (SYSTAC)dell.saulnier@med.lu.se
UN-Common Sense: Understanding Value Engineering with Tom Gilb | Thursday Feb 22, 2022 6:15pm GMT
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 UN-Common Sense: Understanding Value Engineering with Tom Gilb
UN-Common Sense: Understanding Value Engineering with Tom Gilb | Meetup
1995 Francois Jullien, The Propensity of Things
Jullien views propensity in Chinese philosophy, as a counterpart to causality in Western philosophy. Some unpacking of his writing in digests may be helpful.
Jullien, François. 1995. The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Zone Books.
Introduction
How can we conceive of the dynamic in terms of the static, in terms of “disposition”? Or, to put it another way, how can any static situation be simultaneously conceived in terms of historical movement? [p. 11]
A Confusing Ambiguity: The WordShi
A single Chinese word, shi1`will serve as our guide as we reflect on this matter, even though it is a relatively common term gen erally given no philosophical significance. The word is itself a source of confusion, but it was out of that confusion that this book emerged. [pp. 11-12]
1 The term shi (勢) is the same as…
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