What does it mean to go back to the ground and learn the fading skills necessary to work the forest with our hands? To read the land assisted by tools we sight with our own eyes? To create new visions of old roles, such as a land steward or cottager?
I explore those thoughts and more with my guest today, Hazel, who some of you may know as Tom Ward.
Exciting news! I am thrilled to announce the first version of the combination of Value Stream Mapping and the Viable System Model, known as VSM². This concept originated from a conversation that took place in 2017 between Kristian Schweitzer and me. With VSM², you can understand how to govern a value stream more clearly and precisely.
We believe that VSM² allows a holistic view of a value-creating system by integrating the input-output-logic of the Value Stream Mapping with the steering logic of the Viable System Model.
Kudos to Martin Pfiffner for the methodology to apply the Viable System Model and respective aspects like the coloring system for the model.
We look forward to sharing more updates on VSM² in the near future!
Call for Papers to a Research Day on Innovation Venue: Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France Date: 23 May 2024. This research day is associated with a special issue of Creativity and Innovation Management [SSCI 3.644, CABS-AJG 2**, FNEGE Rank 3, 2**]. Organisation committee for the Research Day on Innovation Poonam Oberoi, Steffen Roth, and […]
In reviewing the original introduction for Systems Thinking: Selected Readings in the 1969 Penguin paperback, there’s a few threads that I only recognize, many years later.
In the selection of papers for this volume, two problems have arisen, namely what constitutes ‘systems thinking’, and what systems thinking is relevant to the thinking required for organizational management? The first problem is obviously critical. Unless there were a meaningful answer, there would be no sense in producing a volume of readings in systems thinking in any subject. A great many writers have manifestly believed that there is a way of considering phenomena which is sufficiently different from the well-established modes of scientific analysis to deserve the particular title of systems thinking. Reasons for believing that the distinction is of…
[I note that bizarrely they are still stuck in the 19th Century referring to ‘chairmen’, but hey ho]
11th WCSA WORLDWIDE HYBRID GLOBAL CONFERENCE
BRUSSELLS SEPTEMBER 10th to 15th, 2023
CONFERENCE VENUE ON SITE & ONLINE by ZOOM
SECTION ONE (I): PROLOGUE & WCSA PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
As the current President of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA), a European-based policy-modeling think-tank headquartered in Bologna, I am delighted to launch the “2023 WCSA General Call for Papers and Panels” for our 11th Worldwide Conference in Brussels. The conference will take place hybrid, from September 10th to 15th. The conference is hereby titled:
Cybernetics #1, #2 & #3This is just a recap on different “types” of Cybernetics, at a time when there is huge overlap with Systems Thinking, Complexity Sciences and Operations Research. As you may already know, I’m sceptical of definitions being definitive in general – natural language – discourse, beyond logical – formal symbolic – arguments. That matters because most human affairs are complex and their management or governance are the former not the latter.
Welcome to the Luhmann Conference 2023 Early Career Programme, which will take place on 11 September 2023, just one day before the conference. You are welcome to already join us for a casual get-together dinner on 11 September 2023. Our Early Career Programme is designed specifically for graduate students, postdocs, and early-career professionals who are […]
This is a Survey of work in progress on Inquiry Driven Systems, material I plan to refine toward a more compact and systematic treatment of the subject.
An inquiry driven system is a system having among its state variables some representing its state of information with respect to various questions of interest, for example, its own state and the states of potential object systems. Thus it has a component of state tracing atrajectory though an information state space.
Systems Community of Inquiry 
You must be logged in to post a comment.