Productivity growth means getting more output from fewer inputs. It is a key goal of conventional economic policy. But ‘productivity growth’ is a vague concept and there are large gaps in our understanding of it. This ESRC funded project explores links between the different types of productivity and two major gaps: the relationship between energy and producanoctivity, and wellbeing and productivity. The aim is to map the existing evidence base and guide future ESRC productivity research.

Powering Productivity | Exploring links between energy, wellbeing and the UK’s productivity puzzle · Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

Addressing the interactions between people, products, technologies, services, procedures, policies and culture which, when combined, form complex socio-technical systems.

Complex Systems

Addressing the interactions between people, products, technologies, services, procedures, policies and culture which, when combined, form complex socio-technical systems.

Complex Systems | School of Design and Creative Arts | Loughborough University

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/research-innovation/our-research/complex-systems/

October 3, 2023

By Geoff Marlow

Key systems thinking lessons from Donella Meadows – Integration and Implementation Insights

Join us at a special event to celebrate the publication of Nora Bateson’s new book

By The International Bateson Institute (IBI)

Date and time

Monday, October 23 · 6 – 9pm BST

Rich Mix35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA United Kingdom

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GINGAmapping: Conversational strategies in technical advisory meta-learning for socio-spatial groups

FORMAT: PAPERS, RSD11, RSD11: REIMAGINING THE INTENTIONALITY OF ARCHITECTURE, TOPIC: ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING, TOPIC: LEARNING & EDUCATION, TOPIC: MAPPING & MODELLING

Mateus van Stralen, Marcus Vinicius A.F.R. Bernardo, Isabel Amália Medero, and Amélia Panet de Barros

The article presents a critical reflection on [meta-learning] a remote learning experience in a course for Technical Assistance and Support for Social Housing (ATHIS). The objective of this experience was to promote conditions for students to come in contact with and problematize ‘how’ different concepts related to digital technologies can be appropriated in ATHIS. Based on radical constructivist thinking, the pedagogical framework proposed for the course explored the platforms Zoom and Miro to associate two methodologies for conversation and collaborative ideation – Team Sintegrity (Beer, 1994) and gigamapping (Sevaldson, 2012).

The adaptation and combination of the two methodologies – called here GINGAmapping – enabled the students to get to know each other better and work together in a non-hierarchical and co-creative experience. The results demonstrated that the proposed practice significantly contributed to improving knowledge of the studied topics by each participant and allowed the reverberation of individual contributions throughout the whole team. This experience indicates that Team Sintegrity and gigamapping can be effectively combined to foster simultaneous and integrated work between groups in digital means.

Keywords: team syntegrity, gigamapping, technical advisory, peer-to-peer learning

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Author(s): Mateus van Stralen, Marcus Vinicius A.F.R. Bernardo, Isabel Amália Medero, and Amélia Panet de Barros

Year: 2022

Title: GINGAmapping: Conversational strategies in technical advisory meta-learning for socio-spatial groups

Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design

Volume: RSD11

Article No.: 125

URL: https://rsdsymposium.org/gingamapping-meta-learning-for-socio-spatial-groups

Host: University of Brighton

Location: Brighton, UK

Symposium Dates: October 3–16, 2022

First published: 22 September 2022

Last update: 30 April 2023

Publisher Identification: ISSN 2371-8404

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The Myth of The Algorithm: A System-Level View of Algorithmic Amplification – Lum and Lazovich (2023)

To understand how algorithms shape the internet, we must understand what algorithms really are.

BY KRISTIAN LUM & TOMO LAZOVICHSEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Myth of The Algorithm: A System-Level View of Algorithmic Amplification | Knight First Amendment Institute

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-myth-of-the-algorithm-a-system-level-view-of-algorithmic-amplification

[An interesting chat about systems thinking and coaching surfaced this new-to-me systems approach (and remember, I’ve been at this a while now!) – a new spiral arm of the galaxy, indeed. It was mentioned because I was speculating on identity and boundary-crossing as coachable issues, and indeed…]

Systems Theory Framework of Career Development – Wendy Patton & Mary McMahon

Systems Theory Framework of Career Development – Wendy Patton & Mary McMahon – Marcr

Presentation by the authors, 2016

Paper, 2006

The Systems Theory Framework of Career Development and Counseling: Connecting Theory and Practice

• January 2006
• International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 28(2):153-166

DOI:10.1007/s10447-005-9010-1

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• OAI

Authors: Wendy Patton Mary McMahon

• The University of Queensland

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226536274_The_Systems_Theory_Framework_of_Career_Development_and_Counseling_Connecting_Theory_and_Practice

Book, 2021

areer Development and Systems Theory

Connecting Theory and Practice (4th Edition)

Series: Career Development Series, Volume: 10

Authors: Wendy Patton  and  Mary McMahon

https://brill.com/display/title/60419

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• Martin Pfiffner

• Provides compact knowledge about diagnosis and design of the organization 4.0
• Describes the application of the presented Viable System Model with many practical examples
• Solves practical application issues that have not been addressed before

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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1. Front MatterPages i-xxviPDF
2. Necessity and Benefits of the Third Dimension
   1. Front MatterPages 1-1PDF
   2. Introduction
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 3-24
   3. The Ten Cardinal Mistakes of Organizing
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 25-49
3. The Viable System Model
   1. Front MatterPages 51-51PDF
   2. A Model of Control and Communication
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 53-62
   3. Introduction to the Model
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 63-89
   4. Russian Dolls
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 91-99
   5. Hierarchy and the Redundancy of Potential Command
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 101-112
4. Diagnosis and Design
   1. Front MatterPages 113-113PDF
   2. Overview of the Diagnostic Process
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 115-120
   3. Diagnosing and Designing the Basic Structure (Anatomy, Step I)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 121-135
   4. Mastering Complexity (Excursus)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 137-149
   5. Manageable or Not? (Step II)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 151-158
   6. Mission-Critical Tasks (Step III)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 159-165
   7. Centralized or Decentralized? (Step IV)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 167-173
   8. Diagnosing and Designing the Control Functions (Step V)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 175-198
   9. Diagnosing and Designing Communication Channels (Step VI)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 199-221
5. From Knowledge to Implementation
   1. Front MatterPages 223-223PDF
   2. Making the Organization Understandable (Step VII)
      • Martin Pfiffner
      Pages 225-234

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About this book

This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world. Comparing organizations with living organisms, it places an organization’s neurology (control and communication) as a third dimension beside its anatomy (structure) and physiology (process). Overlooked by classical organizational theory, this third dimension offsets its typical drawbacks.

The Neurology of Business introduces Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and shows how this helps managers to diagnose, discover, and unleash the potential and performance lying dormant in today’s enterprises.

The book is based on numerous consulting projects and management seminars conducted in Europe, America, and Asia. It guides the reader through the diagnosis and design process and illustrates application issues with practical examples. In this way, the book provides managers with the language needed to have meaningful conversations about how their organizations are functioning. As such, it will benefit managers in business and nonbusiness organizations, as well as readers interested in general management.

The Neurology of Business: Implementing the Viable System Model | SpringerLink

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14260-4

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Leading by Weak Signals

Using Small Data to Master Complexity

• Peter Gomez and Mark Lambertz

Volume 5 in the series De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development

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About this book

Master complex problems and face radical uncertainty by unleashing the power of small data　

Is your business using data to its optimum potential? In complicated well-structured problem situations, executives rely on Big Data. However, when faced with complexity and uncertainty they are challenged to skillfully handle Small Data. Leading by Weak Signals argues that impending dangers, new business opportunities or innovative ideas may be missed when data are classified as simply not “big enough.”　　

This insightful book with its new approach initiates a radical shift in perspective from running the business to changing the business. While Big Data are very well suited to run a business efficiently, Small Data lay open phenomena which are connected to transforming a company, like inflection points, scale changes, or critical transitions.　

The authors present practical business examples and an 8-step framework to implement their ideas in teams and on the individual level. This offers reflective practitioners a guideline for leveraging the enormous potential of weak signals for effective strategy development and operational execution in times of uncertainty – and gives them the competitive edge they need to succeed.

• A science- and evidence-based framework for reflective practitioners
• A wide range of examples from managerial practice in a variety of organizations
• Newly developed tools for application in teams and on the individual level

Author / Editor information

Peter Gomez is Professor Emeritus for Strategy and Organization at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was the Rector of his University and President of the Swiss Stock Exchange SIX. He has published widely on Leadership in a Complex World, Systems Thinking in Corporate Practice, and Managing for Public Value.

Mark Lambertz is a Digital Native of the first hour since he learned to program with his first Apple computer at the age of 12. In 1995, he founded one of the first digital agencies in Germany and sold it after 20 years. Today he applies his technological and organizational knowledge in an international company as a transformation manager in the mobility sector headquarters of Robert Bosch GmbH. His focus lies on the Viable System Model, which enables a holistic view of organizations’ culture, processes, roles, and value creation.

Reviews

“In today’s VUCA world, transforming a company requires observation of ‘weak signals’ to uncover early signs of change or disruption. This insightful book provides readers with practical examples and tools to navigate complexity and stay ahead of the competition, as I have personally witnessed in my own company’s journey.” — Torsten Leue, CEO of Talanx AG

“Leading by weak signals” would be seen as “the art of leading” if there were not a science behind it. Peter and Mark are excellent at making its principles and tricks useful for practitioners. In a world of increasing complexity, Leading by Weak Signals is not only part of every leader’s toolkit, but also part of their survival kit. — Martin Pfiffner, author of The Neurology of Business

Leading by Weak Signals

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110797886/html#overview

If you don’t know the question, you can’t understand the answer

JAMES WILK

APR 21, 2023

Questioning Truth – by James Wilk – Change

https://changers.substack.com/p/questioning-truth

• Manlio De Domenico 

Nature Physics volume 19, pages1247–1262 (2023)

More is different in real-world multilayer networksManlio De Domenico Nature Physics volume 19, pages1247–1262 (2023)

More is different in real-world multilayer networks | Nature Physics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02132-1