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Longer supply chains ‘bring innovation and lower prices’ – Supply Management

Longer supply chains ‘bring innovation and lower prices’

posted by Will Green in Procurement 10 January 2022

Companies have responded to Covid disruption by shortening supply chains but a study suggests longer supply chains provide more innovation and economic benefit.

A team of academics from the University of Oxford and Harvard University found supply chains – in which producers bought input goods, converted them into other goods and sold them to other producers – amplified the effects of technological improvements and price reduction.

“Longer production chains for an industry bias it toward faster price reduction, and longer production chains for a country bias it toward faster growth,” said the report.

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Longer supply chains ‘bring innovation and lower prices’ – Supply Management

SYSTEMIC LEADERSHIP SUMMIT When in doubt, Zoom out – Learn how from over 100 expert sessions covering: Leadership – Systems Thinking – Change and Much More! JANUARY 16-25, 2022 Register This year we offer over 100 encore summit sessions (and one or two new sessions as well)

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CSAAW is a friendly, low-pressure environment where presenters can expect feedback from a highly intellectually diverse audience united by an interest in complex systems. CSAAW is a particularly good venue for researchers to: (a) present work using complex systems methods to an audience that is familiar with complex systems tools, (b) gather a wide range of feedback on complex systems research from many different disciplinary perspectives, or (c) discuss work that advances complex systems methods.

CSAAW seminars will typically occur on Wednesdays from 12:00-1:00 on Zoom, with some flexibility to accommodate potential speakers who have conflicts with that time. If you are interested in presenting, please email us at csaaw-organizers@umich.edu.

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CSAAW Co-organizers

BioSystems Submit your Paper View Articles Guide for authors Track your paperOrder journal Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other December 2021

Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other – Call for papers – BioSystems – Journal – Elsevier

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Comparing Approaches to Addressing the Meta-Crisis | by Brandon Norgaard | Jan, 2022 | Medium

Comparing Approaches to Addressing the Meta-Crisis

Brandon Norgaard3 hours ago·6 min read

In the last couple of years, there has been an acceleration of community development, mostly online but also in-person, among people who are seeking new ideas and new ways of thinking about the world and about where our global society is headed. Many people have seized the opportunity to share concerns about the degradation of the natural environment and about threats to life on Earth and about where humanity might be headed in the years to come. To describe this growing phenomenon, we have these similar and partially overlapping notions of the liminal web, the sensemaking web, and the emergentsia among others. When we compare these people and organizations and the ideas they put forth and the values that drive them, we can find a lot of agreement that the world as we know it is in trouble and that we need to take this quite seriously.

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Comparing Approaches to Addressing the Meta-Crisis | by Brandon Norgaard | Jan, 2022 | Medium

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RUM – Really Useful Models | OpenDataSavesLives

RUM – Really Useful Models

05 January 2022By Peter Lacey, Director, Whole Systems Partnership

Just as patients often assume that information about them is shared by different parts of the health system there might be an assumption that when a really useful simulation model is developed it would be picked up and used elsewhere. We have some good examples of this, including work supporting more than 20 local systems to model the impact of COVID using the same model and a standard set of initialisation data tailored for each system. However, generally the spread and adoption of the models we build is limited.

We have explored several barriers to this including the ‘not invented here’ syndrome, or unfamiliarity with even the basics of system dynamics modeling, which is our tool of choice for strategic challenges in complex systems. There has been academic reflection on these challenges but we are confident that there is a way to break through.

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RUM – Really Useful Models | OpenDataSavesLives

The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information by John Turner 1,*,Dave Snowden 2 andNigel Thurlow 3

Systems | Free Full-Text | The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information

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System Dynamics Society | System Dynamics Review

The authors introduce HMC, which outperforms random-walk methods, apply it to calibrate an SEIR model, and recommend visualization tools that facilitate the communication of results. The combination of SD software, R, and Stan produces robust results, facilitates reproducibility, and enhances the comprehension of the process undertaken.Fig 2. Bayesian workflow adaptation to calibrate SD models.

Fig 1. Examples of visuals.Based on a multisite effort in rural India, the authors discuss how the use of visuals can help introduce models, capture the meaning of variables, and encourage model ownership. Challenges did not only include participants but also the facilitation team comprising NGO staff and field staff.

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[1310.0558] A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory

A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory

Liane Gabora, Eric O. Scott, Stuart Kauffman

The phenomenon of preadaptation, or exaptation (wherein a trait that originally evolved to solve one problem is co-opted to solve a new problem) presents a formidable challenge to efforts to describe biological phenomena using a classical (Kolmogorovian) mathematical framework. We develop a quantum framework for exaptation with examples from both biological and cultural evolution. The state of a trait is written as a linear superposition of a set of basis states, or possible forms the trait could evolve into, in a complex Hilbert space. These basis states are represented by mutually orthogonal unit vectors, each weighted by an amplitude term. The choice of possible forms (basis states) depends on the adaptive function of interest (e.g., ability to metabolize lactose or thermoregulate), which plays the role of the observable. Observables are represented by self-adjoint operators on the Hilbert space. The possible forms (basis states) corresponding to this adaptive function (observable) are called eigenstates. The framework incorporates key features of exaptation: potentiality, contextuality, nonseparability, and emergence of new features. However, since it requires that one enumerate all possible contexts, its predictive value is limited, consistent with the assertion that there exists no biological equivalent to “laws of motion” by which we can predict the evolution of the biosphere.

A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory

[1310.0558] A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory

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[PDF] Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems | Semantic Scholar

Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems

• A. Louie
• Published 1 June 2010
• Sociology
• Foresight

Purpose – This article aims to be an expository introduction to Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems, the theory of which provides the conceptual basis for foresight studies.Design/methodology/approach – The ubiquity of anticipatory systems in nature is explained.Findings – Causality is not violated by anticipatory systems, and teleology is an integral aspect of science.Practical implications – A terse exposition for a general readership, such as the present article, by definition cannot get into too many details. For further exploration the reader is referred to the recent book More than Life Itself by the author.Originality/value – The topic of anticipatory systems in particular, and methods of relational biology in general, provide important tools for foresight studies. It is the author’s hope that this brief glimpse into the world of relational biology piques the interest of some readers to pursue the subject further

Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems

[PDF] Robert Rosen’s anticipatory systems | Semantic Scholar

STARTING SOON (Jan 18th) A Course for Executives – Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity (brochure) This is the world’s first executive education course on this topic being delivered by Dr Michael C Jackson OBE, author of the book with the same title, and an internationally recognise expert. I will be co-presenting it with him. The Enlightened Enterprise Academy advocates that, “the purpose of any enterprise in any sector should be the creation of value, defined as contributions to sustainable widely shared prosperity, measured in terms of human flourishing and wellbeing”. In practice that means creating real value by solving the problems and meeting the needs and wants. It requires clarity about what value you create who for and how. These are the three core questions for strategic thinking, planning and execution. Additionally, solutions will invariably require an understanding of the systems that need to be managed to deliver solutions. Complexity usually means managing multiple systems-of-systems and having a comprehensive and holistic view of them, and the ways in which they interrelate and are interdependent. It also means being able to determine which systems thinking approaches are appropriate in tackling a particular type of problem and changing them as the problem evolves dynamically, which most problems do.

(1) Enlightened Enterprise Newsletter 01/22 | LinkedIn

Volume 10 and general information

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Acta Europeana Systemica

Created in 2011 by the European Union for Systemics (EUS), Acta Europeana Systemica (AES) is an Open Access Journal without publication fees, publishing review papers, in French or in English, on topics in all areas of systems thinking (https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES).

We relaunch the AESjournal with a larger editorial team, a more professionalized double-blind review system, an enlarged review committee and a new layout for the papers and the bibliography.

From now on, we open a permanent call for contributions. You can send us your submissions at any time via the platform (the first time, you will have to register on the platform and don’t forget to read the Authors Guidelines).

This permanent call for contribution is also open for the participants of the 11^th UES congress and the 17^th HSSS Conference. Feel free to share this call with your colleagues, your PhD students, and others systemics society and organizations all over the world!

Each submission includes:

1. title (optional: a subtitle)

2. information of the author(s) (First name Last name, Institution, Laboratory, University, email address)

3. summary (no more than 1 500 characters including spaces)

4. five keywords

5. text (preferably between 45,000 and 75,000 characters including spaces)

6. bibliography in APA style

For the integrity of the blind peer-review, all over the text and the bibliography, the authors should replace their names by the word “Author”.

Vol 10 (2020): Unlock consciences: Rethinking the world after the pandemic Damien Claeys, Andrée Piecq (eds.) Déconfiner les consciences : Repenser le monde après la pandémie UES-EUS, AFSCET, AIRS, HSSS, S&O, SESGE, december 2020 Published: 2020-12-09

Acta Europeana Systemica

h/t Michael Garfield – who talks about this as ‘complexity as a platform’ rather than a discipline

Complexity Sciences | Science & Technology Studies

Complexity Sciences

A Scientific Platform

Authors

• Fabrizio Li VigniLISIS, UGE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-7446

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.97027

Abstract

Social scientists have proposed several concepts to give account of the way scientific life organizes. By studying “complexity sciences” – established in the mid-1980s by the “Santa Fe Institute” in New Mexico (USA) –, the present article addresses to interdisciplinary studies and emergent domains literature by proposing a new concept to describe this domain. Drawing from Bourdieusian sociology of science and STS, a “scientific platform” is defined as a meeting point between different specialties, which, on the basis of a flexible common ground, pursue together shared or parallel socio-epistemic objectives. Most of the specialties inscribed in complexity suffer from a relative marginality in their disciplinary field. The term “platform” refers to what the heterogeneous members of the collective mutualize, both in cognitive and social terms, in order to exist and expand.

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Vol. 34 No. 4 (2021): Science & Technology Studies

Complexity Sciences A Scientific Platform

Complexity Sciences | Science & Technology Studies

Transmission T-019: David Wolpert on statistical tools for making pandemic predictions Detail of the figure “Night” from the tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici. Michelangelo Buonarroti. Marble. 1523 APRIL 20, 2020

Transmission T-019: David Wolpert on statistical tools for making pandemic predictions | Santa Fe Institute