The Architecture of ComplexityHerbert A. SimonProceedings of the American Philosophical SocietyVol. 106, No. 6 (Dec. 12, 1962), pp. 467-482 (16 pages)Published By: American Philosophical Society

The Architecture of Complexity on JSTOR

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A Maturing of Systems Thinking? Evidence from Three PerspectivesFebruary 2004

Systemic Practice and Action Research 17(1):3-36DOI:10.1023/B:SPAA.0000013419.99623.f0Project: The relationship between systemic thinking and action researchAuthors:John BartonRMIT University Melbourne AustraliaMerrelyn EmeryConcordia University MontrealRobert FloodNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyJohn W. SelskyInstitute for Washington’s Future

(PDF) A Maturing of Systems Thinking? Evidence from Three Perspectives

Both quaintly anachronistic and depressingly contemporary…

Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks Jennie Popay, Margaret Whitehead, Ruth Ponsford, Matt Egan, Rebecca MeadHealth Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 1253–1263, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa133Published: 31 December 2020

Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Boundary Objects and Artful Integration

I once did some data architecture and modelling for NHS Blood and Transplant. This is a UK-wide agency responsible for blood, organs and other body parts, managing transfers from donors to recipients.One of the interesting challenges for this kind of organization is the need for collaboration between different specialist disciplines. Some teams are responsible for engaging with potential and regular donors, encouraging and arranging donation sessions for blood and plasma. Meanwhile there are other teams who need an extremely precise biomedical profile of each donor, to ensure safety as well as identifying people with rare blood types. While there is a conceptual boundary between these two sets of concerns, the teams need to collaborate effectively and reliably across this boundary.So in terms of data and interoperability, we have an entity (in this case the donor) that is viewed in significantly different ways, but with a common identity. In the past, I’ve talked about two-faced entities or hinge entities, but the term that is generally used nowadays is Boundary Object.

CONTINUES IN SOURCE: Architecture, Data and Intelligence: Boundary Objects and Artful Integration

Book seriesContemporary Systems Thinking

Contemporary Systems Thinking | Book titles in this series

Feedback EconomicsEconomic Modeling with System Dynamics

Feedback Economics | SpringerLink

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Feedback Economics

Economic Modeling with System Dynamics

Editors:

• Robert Y. Cavana, 
• Brian C. Dangerfield, 
• Oleg V. Pavlov, 
• Michael J. Radzicki, 
• I. David Wheat

Creating Conditions for Systems Change in Australia: Leadership Art and Practice

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Liz Skelton, CoFounder & Director, Collaboration for Impact Inequality in Australia is increasing, most notably showing up as persistent locational disadvantage where communities experience little change in issues such as unemployment, poverty, contact with the justice system, homelessness and child maltreatment, despite decades of investment. Locational disadvantage is a complex challenge. Addressing complex problems requires behaviour change to happen concurrently in many parts of the system. The nature of complex problems requires co-creation of solutions, with citizens, leaders and organisations agreeing to a common agenda and then aligning their efforts and resources to achieve measurable, large-scale change. There is growing acceptance that well-designed and effective systemic collaboration and systems leadership is at the heart of initiatives that bring about deep, lasting, large-scale social change. This way of working is counter to most institutions’ cultures, processes and what they incentivise. Without increased capacity and learning, most collaborative efforts revert back to status quo. Liz Skelton from Collaboration for Impact (CFI) will share learnings on the practice and methodology for building capacity in systemic thinking and leadership practice. This approach will be discussed in the presentation of Australian case studies where CFI is providing embedded capacity-building support to communities and multi sector stakeholders from community, government, service providers and business. From international evidence and our work to date, we know that investment needs to be made into building capacity to think and work systemically. There is potential and opportunity to accelerate the rate and quality of learning, capacity building and curation of the thinking, skills and structures required to achieve systems change. CFI is building the foundations for the development and application of Australian systems leadership practice, collaborative change practice and systemic impact measurement.

If you did a podcast, with an old friend, reflecting on your career and last 15 years’ work, what stories would inevitably come up? I was lucky …

Rick Torseth’s 10000 Swamp Leaders podcast with Benjamin P. Taylor

When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes LearningDavid Ing12 July 2022

When Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze Isn’t Working: Doing, Thinking and Making Via Systems Changes Learning | SCiO

Systems Leadership, Change, Theory and PracticeBenjamin Taylor11 July 2022

Systems Leadership, Change, Theory and Practice | SCiO

On Cybernetics / Stafford Beer

On Cybernetics / Stafford Beer – YouTube

Introduction to Cybernetics

Saturday August 13 at 10:30 am – 12:30 pm ACST $15

Introduction to Cybernetics – Interintellect

Introduction to Cybernetics

Saturday August 13 at 10:30 am – 12:30 pm ACST

Start time where you are: Saturday August 13 – 2:00 AM

$15.00

Join Scott Davies for a salon on cybernetics from its foundations to present.

Cybernetics is, according to one of its pioneers, Norbert Wiener, concerned with “Control and communication in the animal and the machine.” Cybernetics is, as its core, the study of feedback models in social and biological systems. While most closely related to systems theory, AI and complexity science, cybernetics can be applied to all manner of topics as varied as biology, economics, management theory and even architecture and the arts.

In this Salon, returning host Scott Davies will provide an introduction and overview to a field of study which is often misunderstood and at times maligned as a result. Starting from its origins in the middle of the twentieth century with Norbert Weiner and the legendary Macy Conferences, through the field’s heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, this Salon will explore the field’s development up to the present day. We’ll discuss the field’s relevance in the modern day and whether this field of study can help provide insight and perspective to the challenges of our day.

Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics

Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics | SpringerLink

Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics

Public Health and Private Illness

Authors:

• Michele Battle-Fisher

• Explores health policy through the lens of public health vs. private health
• Popular, cultural examples and nontechnical tone make political philosophy and health policy topics accessible to a student audience
• Applies systems and complexity thinking to health system reform
• Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

See also

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321616057_Application_of_Systems_Thinking_to_Health_Policy_Public_Health_Ethics_Public_Health_and_Private_Illness

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