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Visual Network Analysis – Systems Thinking – David Ing on Open Learning Commons
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Visual Network Analysis – Systems Thinking – Open Learning Commons
While people like looking at network maps, do they have an appreciation for the meaning, based on the underlying mathematics?
The current state of interpreting network maps is basically an accepted but criticized practice. Some do it well, some do it wrong, but no one can actually provide a precise reason why it works (or seems to).
- ” The problem with network maps” | Mathieu Jacomy at https://reticular.hypotheses.org/1724 1
This refers back to a 2005 paper Divided They Blog , a paper by Lada Adamic and Nathalie Glance (search on Google Scholar):
The paper was published in 2005 and has been hugely cited (2551 times in 2019 according to Google Scholar). I have two stories about this image, a tale and a horror story, which together form a bigger story.
- ” Two stories about “Divided they Blog”, figure 1.” | Mathieu Jacomy at https://reticular.hypotheses.org/1002
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Why Big Data Needs Thick Data – Ethnography Matters – Tricia Wang
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Why Big Data Needs Thick Data – Ethnography Matters – Medium
Why Big Data Needs Thick Data
Tricia Wang
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Jan 20, 2016 · 13 min read
Originally published on May 13, 2013 for Ethnography Matters, I’m republishing the post for the launch of the new Ethnography Matters Medium channel. I’ve updated the article with a case study from my time at Nokia where I witnessed their over-dependence on quantitative data. I’m continuously blown away by how much my original post in 2013 sparked a discussion about the integration of Thick Data and Big Data. Since then, I have talked about this topic with EPIC conference, Republica and Strata. I also gave a TED talk targeted for business leaders. Just last year, Word Spy created an entry of Thick Data, referencing my original post as the resurgence of the term. My goal is to create more opportunities to feature people who are doing this kind of integrative work inside organizations. Please reach out if this kind of work is up your alley. You can start by joining a community of people who are at the forefront of this work at Ethnography Hangout Slack’s #datatalk channel. Thank you to IDEO’s Elyssa He for translating this article into Chinese, 大数据离不开 “厚数据”, published on 36kr and Paz Bernaldo for translating this into Spanish.
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Applying Socio-Technical Systems Design: Open Systems Theory and Practice in a Digital World – Care4
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Applying Socio-Technical Systems Design: Open Systems Theory and Practice in a Digital World – Care4
Applying Socio-Technical Systems Design: Open Systems Theory and Practice in a Digital World
5 EPISODES | LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Series Overview
Organizational theory and practice have been evolving for over 80 years. Its scientific base is in general systems theory, and specifically open systems theory which describes/includes living systems. Systems engineering and computer science are, likewise, derived from the science of general systems theory. The most popular organizational trends today stem from these theoretical roots – socio-technical organization design, agile development and practice, and digital platform organization design.
This workshop presents the open systems model, its core architecture and principles, and how it’s being used in the most innovative applications of innovative organization design today. In addition, the course has a focus on the role of the organization practitioner in the facilitation of design choices and operating model. What we offer is an “applied open-system thinking” framework. It is therefore both historical / conceptual and practical applied to our current world.
Who should join us
- Those interested in designing the future of work/organizations and how to best bring this forward
- Next generation of organization designers
- Internal and external consultants (Organization Development and Organization Design)
- Those attracted to systems thinking and eco-system design
- Those doing Dev/Ops, Digital Transformation, Agile & Scrum, Lean & 6 Sigma, and Network and System Design
- Managers and leaders on the front lines of organizations and ecosystems
EPISODE 1
The evolution of Open Systems Theory and Practice: from SocioTechnical System, to Agile Development, to Digital Platform Design.
What is STS and how is it “reframed” in the 21st century. The roots and history with lots of how does it translate/apply to today. The organization as an open system: theory and principles and finding the right balance between efficiency and adaption – ambidexterity.
In this session we will set the foundation for all four modules and discuss pre and post work for each episode.
DATE: 01 July 2020
TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 CEST
FORMAT: COURSE
PRICE: €9 + VAT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TOTAL SEATS: 24
YOU WILL USE: ZOOM, MIRO, GOOGLE DOCS
EPISODE 2
Adaptive Work Systems and Agile Work Systems
To show the gradual shift from hierarchy to networks, and how networks are designed for performance. One of the questions for this session is: what replaces hierarchy? Overview of model and functionality of AWS (Adaptive Work Systems) and Agile (Balanced Optimization Model).
Episode 2 shares case examples (Global Pandemic, Migration from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Migration from Central America to the US, European Electrical Grid) and looks at applications of STS thinking to implications for current and near future reality.
DATE: 08 July 2020
TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 CEST
FORMAT: COURSE
PRICE: €29 + VAT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TOTAL SEATS: 24
YOU WILL USE: ZOOM, MIRO, GOOGLE DOCS
EPISODE 3
Digital socio-technical design (including ecosystem design)
To define digital socio-technical design: structure, processes, how it works. This is about the future and possibilities, what could a STS applied world of the future look like. Building on lessons from the 1st two modules. The case here is the pandemic and its implications and outcomes, near term and 20 years out.
DATE: 15 July 2020
TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 CEST
FORMAT: COURSE
PRICE: €29 + VAT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TOTAL SEATS: 24
YOU WILL USE: ZOOM, MIRO, GOOGLE DOCS
EPISODE 4
Organization design consulting: Applications in the new world
For participants to understand that design is driven from strategic and customer data, not a faddish model. “An aha moment that creates a new story, a new pattern of connections in your brain. Once you have had an insight, you cannot go back to the old way of thinking.”
This session is the “Insight – Action” session, so to speak. During this module we really focus on how to bring STS to today’s current realities and apply.
DATE: 22 July 2020
TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 CEST
FORMAT: COURSE
PRICE: €29 + VAT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TOTAL SEATS: 24
YOU WILL USE: ZOOM, MIRO, GOOGLE DOCS
EPISODE 5
Moving Toward Action
A way forward, expressed with clarity, preferably as a story. This “capstone session” focuses on applying STS to your situations/clients; Integrating STS with other professional frameworks (it is not an either-or, but a both-and); and, STS as applied research.
DATE: 29 July 2020
TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 CEST
FORMAT: COURSE
PRICE: €29 + VAT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
TOTAL SEATS: 24
YOU WILL USE: ZOOM, MIRO, GOOGLE DOCS
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Understanding Society: ABM models for the COVID-19 pandemic
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Understanding Society: ABM models for the COVID-19 pandemic
Understanding Society
Innovative thinking about a global world
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
ABM models for the COVID-19 pandemic
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Understanding Society: ABM models for the COVID-19 pandemic
A Definition of Systems Thinking: A Systems Approach – ScienceDirect. Arnold and Wade, 2015
From an open access edition 2015 Conference on Systems Engineering Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/vol/44/suppl/C
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A Definition of Systems Thinking: A Systems Approach
Ross D.Arnold Jon P.Wade Stevens Institute, Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA
Available online 16 March 2015.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.03.050
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This paper proposes a definition of systems thinking for use in a wide variety of disciplines, with particular emphasis on the development and assessment of systems thinking educational efforts. The definition was derived from a review of the systems thinking literature combined with the application of systems thinking to itself. Many different definitions of systems thinking can be found throughout the systems community, but key components of a singular definition can be distilled from the literature. This researcher considered these components both individually and holistically, then proposed a new definition of systems thinking that integrates these components as a system. The definition was tested for fidelity against a System Test and against three widely accepted system archetypes. Systems thinking is widely believed to be critical in handling the complexity facing the world in the coming decades; however, it still resides in the educational margins. In order for this important skill to receive mainstream educational attention, a complete definition is required. Such a definition has not yet been established. This research is an attempt to rectify this deficiency by providing such a definition.
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Council Post: The Role Of Systems Thinking In Organizational Change And Development
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The Role Of Systems Thinking In Organizational Change And Development
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Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D
OD & Change Management Consultant (Human Capital Innovations); Professor, Woodbury School of Business (UVU), Social Impact & Innovation Guru
ProjectManagement.com – What the Pandemic Is Showing Us About Systems Thinking
source: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-post/64690/What-the-Pandemic-Is-Showing-Us-About-Systems-Thinking
What the Pandemic Is Showing Us About Systems Thinking
From the Voices on Project Management Blog
by Dave Wakeman
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1. To have a successful theory, you need a unified theory of your system.
2. Looking at the world as a system can help point toward a quicker recovery.
3. Successful systems still need good communication.
source: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-post/64690/What-the-Pandemic-Is-Showing-Us-About-Systems-Thinking
A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s Rare Conversation on Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility – Brain Pickings
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
NOTE: This is the first installment in a multi-part series covering Mead and Baldwin’s historic conversation. Part 2 focuses on identity, race, and the immigrant experience; part 3 on changing one’s destiny; part 4 on reimagining democracy for a post-consumerist culture.
On the evening of August 25, 1970, Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901–November 15, 1978) and James Baldwin (August 2, 1924–December 1, 1987) sat together on a stage in New York City for a remarkable public conversation about such enduring concerns as identity, power and privilege, race and gender, beauty, religion, justice, and the relationship between the intellect and the imagination. By that point, Baldwin, forty-six and living in Paris, was arguably the world’s most famous living poet, and an enormously influential voice in the civil rights dialogue; Mead, who was about to turn seventy, had become the world’s first celebrity academic — a visionary anthropologist with groundbreaking field experience under her belt, who lectured at some of the best cultural institutions and had a popular advice column in Redbook magazine.
They talked for seven and a half hours of brilliance and bravery over the course of the weekend, bringing to the dialogue the perfect balance of similarity and difference to make it immensely simulating and deeply respectful. On the one hand, as a white woman and black man in the first half of the twentieth century, they had come of age through experiences worlds apart. On the other, they had worlds in common as intellectual titans, avid antidotes to the era’s cultural stereotypes, queer people half a century before marriage equality, and unflinching celebrators of the human spirit.
Besides being a remarkable and prescient piece of the cultural record, their conversation, the transcript of which was eventually published as A Rap on Race (public library), is also a bittersweet testament to one of the recurring themes in their dialogue — our tendency to sideline the past as impertinent to the present, only to rediscover how central it is in understanding the driving forces of our world and harnessing them toward a better future. This forgotten treasure, which I dusted off shortly after Ferguson and the Eric Garner tragedy, instantly stopped my breath with its extraordinary timeliness — the ideas with which these two remarkable minds tussled in 1970 had emerged, unsolved and unresolved, to haunt and taunt us four decades later with urgency that can no longer be evaded or denied.
Although some of what is said is so succinctly brilliant that it encapsulates the essence of the issue — at one point, Baldwin remarks: “We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.” — this is nonetheless a conversation so complex, so dimensional, so wide-ranging, that to synthesize it in a single article or highlight a single dominant theme would be to instantly flatten it and strip it of power. Instead, I am going to do something I’ve never done in nearly a decade of Brain Pickings — explore this immensely valuable cultural artifact in a multi-part series examining a specific viewpoint from this zoetrope of genius in each installment, beginning with Mead and Baldwin’s tapestry of perspectives on forgiveness, the difference between guilt and responsibility, and the role of the past in understanding the present and building a more dignified future.
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Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions: theory, methods and practice – NIHR School for Public Health Research
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Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions
Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions: theory, methods and practice
Research Team: Professor Mark Petticrew, Dr Matt Egan, Professor Karen Lock, Professor Steven Cummins, Professor Richard Smith, Elizabeth McGill, Professor Martin White, Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead, Professor Jennie Popay, Professor Martin O’Flaherty, Dr Lois Orton, Dr Frank de Vocht, Professor Russ Jago, Professor Petra Meier, Dr John Holmes, Professor Sarah Salway, Dr Harry Rutter, Dr Cecile Knai, Dr Zaid Chalabi, Lesley Mountford & Monwara Ali
Who’s involved: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, University of Bristol & LiLaC
June 2017 – November 2018
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The Bristol Bridge Problem
[Written as part of Notebook Blog Month.]
Last year I walked the Bristol Bridge Walk with my brother. This is a 28 mile circuit in the style of Königsberg’s famous bridge problem, where every bridge in Bristol (or more accurately, every footbridge across the Avon) has to be crossed exactly once. It was designed by Thilo Gross, who figured out that Bristol’s bridge problem can be solved, unlike Königsberg’s. At least until they build more bridges and mess it up.
I wrote a Twitter thread on this a while back but thought I’d try an expanded version here. The interesting bit for me is how much of Gross’s work in creating this route was in defining the problem, mapping all the mess of modern Bristol onto a clean mathematical model.
The original Königsberg bridge problem has the following structure, with four land masses and seven bridges:
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CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points – with Tim Lenton – Universiteit Utrecht (online) – 15:00 (presumably Utrecht time) on Friday 19th June 2020
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CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points – Current affairs – Universiteit Utrecht
CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points
We cordially invite you to join us at our virtual Centre for Complex Systems Studies external linkon Microsoft Teams to meet other complexity researchers where you won’t miss out any online activities from us as well.
This lecture is an online discussion organised within the Transitions with Complex Systems series.
Due to the current situation which many of our community have found ourselves in, we have decided to adapt our schedule to bring you an updated series of online lectures and discussions.
This Series: Complexity & Transitions
This academic year at the CCSS we are holding two series of lectures. Under our ‘Complexity & Transitions’ series, we host guest lectures from researchers from a variety of discplines whose research focuses on transitions within complex systems. Please see our upcoming Events for details on our other reading series.
Speaker Overview
Tim Lenton external linkis Professor of Climate Change and Earth Systems Science at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the Earth as a system, placing a focus on how life reshaped the planet in the past, and what lessons we can draw from this. A main area of his work examines tipping points and early warning signals in the Earth system, particularly focusing on the implications of crossing tipping points and the actual thresholds in the Earth’s climate system. Tim’s passion for studying the Earth’s systems was ignited after reading Jum Lovelock’s books on Gaia, which was mentioned in his recent publication in Science, Gaia 2.0 – Could humans add some level of self-awareness to Earth’s self-regulation?
Abstract
I will summarise recent evidence regarding climate tipping points, which supports declarations that we are in a ‘climate emergency’.
I’ll also show our latest results identifying a human climate niche and projecting how it will move in the future.
Then I will turn to identifying positive social tipping points that will need to be triggered to have any hope of limiting global warming to well below 2°C.
Meeting Details
There will be 60-min lecture from our speaker, followed by a 30-min Question & Answer session.
To attend the lecture, please click this link external linkat 15:00 on Friday 19th June 2020.
You are free to join the event without a Microsoft Teams account, the link above will direct you to open Teams on the web or download the program, and you can easily join the event as a guest in Teams.
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Generation C – A Hybrid Symposium Publication, put on by the Center for Complexity, June 15-19, 2020 – Daily Posts and Proceedings
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Generation C
#generationc
Put on by the Center for Complexity at RISD
Funded by Infosys
A Hybrid Symposium Publication
About
RISD’s Center for Complexity (CfC) is hosting a five-day virtual symposium, open to all, during the week of June 15th-19th. New content will be posted each day.
The core of the week-long event is a series of essays organized around seven themes we are calling ‘Compasses’.
Crisis & Capacity
Culture & Constructs
Collapse & (re)Construct
Chaos & Control
Contact & Constraints
Commons & Capital
Compasses & Calibrations
The title—Generation C—is meant to evoke the generational changes needed to address capitalism, climate, community, and complexity among many other challenges. We’ve adapted the term from Ed Yong’s incisive reporting. He used it to name the children now being born who will live in a society profoundly altered by COVID-19 and the choices made in response.
The CfC has assembled a group of thinkers and makers to offer their insight on a series of current and critical topics. We hope that you will find their work thought-provoking and that you will be inspired to add your wisdom to the combined insight of an engaged community thinking together.
We began our planning during a moment of disruption in public health. We make this invitation during a moment when American society has erupted in protest, confronting the racist legacies and present that shape the systems we study. The protests began as a result of police violence but are undeniably connected to the inequitable response to COVID-19 and the wider injustices that persist in our society.
This is a time for many kinds of action. This symposium is a platform to share ideas about the critical work of charting pathways forward. If you wish to think deeply with us, we welcome you to the Center for Complexity 2020 Symposium.
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System – in Roam Research
A hyperlinked and reverse-linked copy of Donnella Meadows’ classic Leverage Points piece, set up in www.roamresearch.com by Bardia Pourvakil
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Metadata: Author: [[Donella Meadows]] Source: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Recommended By: [[David Perell]] Tags: #Essay Notes #complex systems #Science #Systems Theory
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
System Dynamics meets COVID-19, May 2020 – UK Systems Dynamics – YouTube
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywqMIbNuvY
also by the same person
Erik Pruyt (2013) Small System Dynamics Models for Big Issues: Triple Jump towards Real-World Dynamic Complexity
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:10980974-69c3-4357-962f-d923160ab638/datastream/OBJ/link.pdf
Thanks to John Raven for the links
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