Updated 12 January 2023

This document is a case study bank of systems thinking for civil servants. It is one component of a suite of documents that aims to act as a springboard into systems thinking for civil servants unfamiliar with this approach. These documents introduce a small sample of systems thinking concepts and tools, chosen due to their accessibility and alignment to civil service policy development, but which is by no means comprehensive. They are intended to act as a first step towards using systems thinking approaches to solve complex problems and the reader is encourage to explore the wider systems thinking field further.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/systems-thinking-for-civil-servants/case-studies

Event details

• 21 Feb 202215:00-16:00 GMT / 16:00-17:00 CETZoom Webinar
• 50 Anniversary Network Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Afghanistan United Kingdom

The UKRI and IIASA hosted a critical dialogue on the benefits of systems thinking in biodiversity research.

https://iiasa.ac.at/events/feb-2022/biodiversity-from-systems-perspective

Hughes, Alan and Ulrichsen, T. (2019) Value Chains, Systems Thinking and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy:Implications for place based policy development in the UK A Critical Assessment. Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/145901/

http://supergoodtech.com/tomquick/phd/autopoiesis.html

http://supergoodtech.com/tomquick/phd/research.html

JONATHAN ROWSON

 AND 

PERSPECTIVA

3 AUG 2023

https://perspecteeva.substack.com/p/what-is-a-visionary?nthPub=4241

Neil Witten

Innovation Lead for Advanced Materials, Innovate UK

25 October 2021

https://www.ukri.org/blog/the-net-zero-transition-more-systems-thinking-please/

A core philosopher deeply aligned with a lot of contextualised systems | cybernetics | complexity, and of course deeply linked to her teacher/mentor and friend, Wittgenstein, whose posthumous work she translated and edited. (Note mostly to self: I hadn’t realised until this show how she connects Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre, another deeply systems | cybernetics | complexity philosopher).

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential thinker who rejuvenated moral philosophy in the postwar period.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1yy

Joss Colchester

Ecosystem Building at Systems Innovation Network

I sometimes get asked which organizations are doing systems innovation. So here is my very subjective list of the organisations I find most interesting in this area*

https://www.illuminatesystems.org/latest/article-learning-and-weaving

Jun 15, 2023

https://www.the-systems-school.org/blog/time-in-the-system

August 11, 2016

By John Coghlan

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflections-book-beyond-dispute-stafford-beer-john-coghlan/

BYEDEN MEDINA

Five lessons from a socialist computing project in Salvador Allende’s Chile.

https://jacobin.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/

Nov. 7, 2014

A presentation about the use of technology to teach systems thinking at the k-12 level

Craig Cunningham

Professor at National-Louis University

(As interesting as the article, are the comments, in which he talks about his own path of discovery and exploration of cybernetics)