ALARA Conference Call for abstracts

The ALARA Action Research Conference will be held 7-8 November at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Australia.

Proposals are welcomed that reflect on the participatory and transformative nature of Action Learning and Action Research within, across and beyond disciplinary boundaries
and sectors including Health; Education; Community development; Sustainability; International development; Arts; Business and organisations; Activism; Systems.

Call for abstracts closes 31 July 2024.

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Prof Roelien Goede ANZSYS presentation 23 Oct 2023

Online presentation and discussion 23 Oct 2023.

Prof Roelien Goede, past-President of ISSS

"Is digital transformation empowering or suffocating us? A critical systems heuristics perspective" Digital transformation is changing the way we

Prof Roelien Goede presentation to ANZSYS from ISSS

Online presentation and discussion 1 Dec 2022. More details at ANZSYS Events

Prof Roelien Goede, President of ISSS

At the halfway stage of my ISSS Presidency term, I would like to engage with the ANZSYS Community on the current activities of the ISSS. These activities include mini-symposia, education, the development of

Improving collaboration using VSM with Team Syntegrity

Online presentation and discussion 13 July 2022. More details at ANZSYS Events

Dr Andrea Clark

Collaborations are necessary to address ‘wicked problems’ but are often ineffective due to the complexity inherent in collaboration and their operating environment. This presentation introduces a novel approach that

"Well I've never seen anything like this before"

Online presentation and discussion 29 June 2022. More details at ANZSYS Events

Mary Brydon-Miller, PhD
Professor, University of Louisville, University of Technology, Sydney and North-West University, Potchefstroomity

Mary comments, 'This is probably the first time a gas station has been the focus of a presentation at ANZSSYS. But this is no ordinary gas station...

Homo Cyberneticus: A Cyber-Systemic Perspective on Humanity’s Creation and Management of the Anthropocene

Online presentation and discussion 28 April 2022 more details at ANZSYS Events

Professor Emeritus William J. Reckmeyer, PhD

Bill will share updates from his current research project on Homo Cyberneticus,

Urgent! Call for Abstracts: 2022 Systems Thinking & Modelling Symposium

ONLINE, Friday, February 4th, 2022
12:00pm – 3:30pm (AEDT – Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne time)

We invite you to submit an abstract for this Oceania Chapter Online Symposium about your work applying systems thinking and/or system dynamics modelling within industry, government, or academia.

Systems Thinking in Daily Life

Online presentation and discussion 6-Oct-2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Dr Derek Cabrera

In this presentation, Derek will introduce how, contrary to contemporary thought, Systems Thinking is an emergent property of 4 simple, universal rules of organization that

Harnessing Emergence in Complex Projects: Rethinking Risk, Opportunity, and Resilience

Online presentation and discussion 16-Sept 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Collin Smith

In his presentation Collin will introduce the upcoming International Roundtable Thought Leadership Report on 'Harnessing Emergence in Complex Projects: Rethinking Risk, Opportunity, and

Energy Justice Issues with Renewable Energy Projects

Online presentation and discussion 2-Sept 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Prof. Shankar Shankaran

In this presentation, Shankar will describe how renewable energy projects that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all are beginning to create ethical and social justice issues in the areas of Distributional Justice, Procedural Justice, Recognition Justice and Cosmopolitan Justice.

Caring for Students: Lecturing as Critical Systems Thinker and Action Researcher

Online presentation and discussion 15 July 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Dr Roelien Goede

In this presentation, Roelien will describe different ways in which Critical Systems Thinking and Action Research can shape a lecturer's care for students

CYNEFIN and the Method Kits

Online presentation and discussion 8 July 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Prof Dave Snowden

A Great Opportunity for ANZSYS and ISSS conference delegates to engage with a Thought Leader on Critical Systems Thinking

ANZSYS invites all interested in systems thinking and knowledge management, especially CYNEFIN Domains of Knowledge, to join a collaborative venture with David Snowden

Variety Dynamics: Controlling Highly-Complex Systems

Online presentation and discussion 8 July 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events.

Dr Terence Love

Terence's presentation describes a new Systems approach, Variety Dynamics for analysis,management and control of highly-complex, coercive, unbounded or chaotic systems - and more normal systems.

'Feedback Economics' - new Systems book

Feedback Economics

Economic Modeling with System Dynamics

Editors: Cavana, R.Y., Dangerfield, B., Pavlov, O.V., Radzicki, M.J., Wheat, I.D.

"This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

Translating Systems Ideas to Other Fields

Online presentation and discussion 17 June 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Bob Williams

In this presentation, Bob Williams will describe a team has adapted systems concepts to the evaluation field. The process included identifying tacit systems concepts and re-framing them to be more accessible to evaluators.

Paradigm shifts and blind spots

Online presentation and discussion 3 June 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Bob Dick photo

Bob Dick

Bob's presentation will explore the massive but slow paradigm shift currently under way. From a complexity standpoint, Bob will examine why very successful new-paradigm organisations are almost never imitated, even by their direct competitors.

Circulist and Systems and Sustainability

Online presentation and discussion 20 May 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Nick Gonios

Nick 's presentation will focus on 'Circulist and Systems and Sustainability' about re-imagining the business of manufacturing in a new built world ecosystem.

Towards a critical operations management?

Dr. Jeff Foote
Online presentation and discussion 22 April 2021 9pm Orago NZ (7pm Sydney) - more details at ANZSYS Events

Join the Zoom meeting via

https://otago.zoom.us/j/99600960387?pwd=dXdtanNDdVo0RTc5ZkJFL1ZValR1QT09

Contemporary operations management theories are premised on a mechanistic view of the world. Although operations are socio-technical, a 'hard' systems perspective and concern for efficiency dominate scholarship. The role that values, interests and power-relations play in governing operational performance is seldom acknowledged but necessary

System boundaries and Surprise Attacks

Online presentation and discussion 6 May 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Professor Dr Bill Hutchinson

Investigating the problem of surprise attack using a systemic approach gave unusual insights including:

Boundary development is by its nature something that restricts reality and actually forms its own. Reification is a great danger to the solution to the problem at hand.
Boundaries are defined by power and influence and tend to be self-limiting.
Read more: System boundaries and Surprise Attacks

Think Like a System Act Like an Entrepreneur

Online presentation and discussion 25 March 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Dr Lewe Atkinson

Linda Ginger

How entrepreneurs can use data science to test the value of their idea because its not always good enough to enter a new market with a “better product” and the world is “getting flatter” (maintaining competitive advantage via asynchrony of market information is no longer sustainable) so that’s why mining data the new way to unearth the nuggets.

New forms of education, economics democracy and governance : reframing economics, accounting and accountability

Online presentation and discussion 8 April 2021 more details at ANZSYS Events

Janet MacIntyre-Mills

Rudolf Wirawan

The presenters propose an alternative cyclical economy based on eco-villages supporting urban hubs to re-generate rural-urban balance based on eco-facturing, to use Gunter Pauli’s concept. The development of eco-facturing

Systems Thinking for Tackling Wicked Problems

Gerald Midgley, Professor of Systems Thinking, University of Hull.

On 4 March, Gerald Midgely will be giving a zoom seminar An Introduction to Systems Thinking for Tackling Wicked Problems.

The presentation is jointly hosted by the Centre for Systems Studies, Hull and the Systems Community of Inquiry, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

The URL below advertises the seminar (giving an abstract and biography), includes the zoom link and an ics file to add to your calendar at the correct local time.

https://lnkd.in/dnYdaSj

A Compendium of Managing Complex Systems

This picture is used by a Complexity advocate to conjecture that complex systems cannot be managed. This is not correct, as many of the claims made by self-proclaimed complexity experts. I've seen this scene of flocking birds first hand. It is mesmerizing to watch.Turns out these birds can be modeled with Boids, Flock Simulation of Birds, The Convergence of Bird Flocking, Flocking algorithm for autonomous flying robots, and numerous others.

Glen Alleman - see https://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/03/a-compendium-of-managing-compelx-systyems.html

Applying Systems Thinking to Managing Projects: A Viable Governance Model based on Stafford Beer’s Work

Prof. Shankar Shankaran

Online presentation and discussion

Wednesday 10th February 19:00 AEST

Zoom presentation - https://utsmeet.zoom.us/j/84018555928

New ebook: From Modularity to Emergence - Short Review

Dr Chih-Chun Chen and Dr Nathan Crilly of the Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre Design Practice Group have released a free, downloadable book, From Modularity to Emergence: A Primer on the Design and Science of Complex Systems.

Video: Keith Grint on Wicked Problems & Leadership

Here is Professor Keith Grint on Wicked Problems and Leadership

New book: 'Small Arcs of Larger Circles; by Nora Bateson

In her new book 'Small Arcs of Larger Circles', Nora Bateson invites us to weave together the rigor of systems thinking and complexity thinking with the expansiveness of our embodied, aesthetic experience - and introduces us to a new language and vocabulary of contextual, mutual learning.

Systems Resources from IIED

IIED is a policy and action research organisation in sustainable development. Based in London IIEDworks in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to strengthen their voice in decision-making arenas that affect them.

MITs Free Software for Planning Large Cities of the Future

MIT has just released its open source Urban Network Analysis software for analysing interdependent aspects of urban development at city level.

Resources: Systemic Thinking for Planners and Designers

Gary Metcalf a visiting member of faculty at Aalto university in Finland has collated a useful list of Systems liiterature resources under broad topic headings.

Co-creation without systems thinking can be dangerous

Gerald Midgely asks 'Why does the theory and practice of co-creation need to be informed by systems thinking?' Co-creation without a thorough understanding of systems thinking can be deeply problematic. Essentially, we need a theory and practice of systemic co-creation.

To read in full this interesting blog article by Gerald at www.i2insights.org go to here.

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