1/thread Almost 20 years ago, I started thinking about the ergodicity problem in the context of economics. That turned out to be surprisingly fruitful, and now there’s a book about it.
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In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that “Life, um, finds a way.”
YANSS 312 – An introduction to complexity science, chaos theory, and how life, um, finds a wayIn this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that “Life, um, finds a way.”
08 May 2025, by Barbara Orlando, translated by Tomaso Eridani
How network science can help us understand who will be the next Pope. The study by Soda, Iorio, and Rizzo reveals how status, information and alliances influence the papal election.
Research Papal election In the Network of the Conclave Open share 08 May 2025, by Barbara Orlando, translated by Tomaso Eridani How network science can help us understand who will be the next Pope. The study by Soda, Iorio, and Rizzo reveals how status, information and alliances influence the papal election.
Join us for a Special Interest Group: Change in organisations is inevitable, especially in challenging economic and technological times. Enabling the entire workforce to engage in change initiatives not only facilitates buy in, but also ensures that their specific knowledge and insights create and embed organisational transformation which will enhance long term viability.
Dr Ann Mulhaney – Associate Professor for Change Management at the Centre for Sustainable Innovation, University of Salford will be presenting/speaking on this informative subject.
Change in organisations is inevitable, especially in challenging economic and technological times. Enabling the entire workforce to engage in change initiatives not only facilitates buy in, but also ensures that their specific knowledge and insights create and embed organisational transformation which will enhance long term viability.
There is a plethora of change management literature, with numerous models and theories of change, but few explain how to create and embed the conditions for change that enable stakeholder engagement, coordination of initiatives and sustainability of both the change and the management of change within organisations. Managerial cybernetics is the science of effective organisation, but little work had been undertaken to utilise managerial cybernetics in the design of change intervention which both engages those affected and embraces creativity techniques as part of the change framework.
Using action research, this presentation describes a framework for cybernetic participatory intervention that engages stakeholders both in the evolving design and the implementation of change. The framework was developed, refined and applied in a series of situations with increasing levels of complexity involving multiple change initiatives, multi companies and cross industry programmes. The framework embeds creativity tools to both engage stakeholders and enhance understanding of the situational context, allowing for new and enhanced opportunities for change to emerge.
When
26/09/2025 12:30 – 14:00 GMT Daylight Time
Where
Centre for Systems Studies University of Hull Cottingham Road Hybrid HU6 7RX
Systems Thinking – Creating the conditions for change: a participatory cybernetic framework
Dare to Rethink..® Mehaad A. Tegally RPᴱᴹ Systems Thinking, Re-engineering & Optimization Professional Founder: Sustainable Operating System Initiative ® “Dimensions Surfacing Heuristics”
Tilak Shantanu presents the topics addressed in a three-part paper published in our Journal. It looks at Gordon Pask’s conversation theory (CT) and interaction of actors theory (IA) and outlines ways to apply these cybernetic approaches to designing technologies and scenarios for both formal and informal learning. The paper was published in our journal and the link is here: https://doi.org/10.58695/ec.11
Pask’s conversation & interaction of actors theories: Approaches to learning tech, Shantanu Tilak
Almost 20 years ago, I started thinking about the ergodicity problem in the context of economics. That turned out to be surprisingly fruitful, and now there’s a book about it.
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