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IFSR Conversation

The next IFSR Conversation will be April 3 - 8, 2016 in Linz, Austria. Please suggest topics, and distribute this announcement to your colleagues. The announcement document (pdf) can be downloaded here.

Book - Strategic Foresight

New bookSTRATEGIC FORESIGHT - Learning from the Future by Patricia Lustig (Publisher Triarchy Press) is written for leaders in any organisation. Strategic Foresight offers a set of skills and tools used to explore potential futures, so that you can plan for and take advantage of them.

Webinar: Systems Philosophy and its Relevance to SE

The Systems Philosophy webinar by Dr David Rousseau on "Systems Philosophy and its Relevance to SE." (previously live on May 6th) is now available online. The presentation is 35 minutes long followed by 20 minutes of Q&A.

ISCE survey

ISCE has created a survey for the Second Order Science event in Berlin (see http://secondorderscience.org) to help put the concepts into perspective. ISCE and ASC and IFSR encourage you to complete the survey and circulate the weblink

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1911906/Defining-Context-Dependence

ANZSYS Affiliated to IFSR

ANZSYS is now an affiliate of the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR). IFSR is an established organisation with its own press and journal (Systems Research and Behavioural Science). The contact person for IFSR in ANZSYS is Victor MacGill (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with Terence Love (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) as secondary contact.

Proceedings: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 2014 Symposium

The Relating Systems and Design 2014 proceedings are from a symposium organised by the Systemic Design Research Network, published by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and edited by Birger Sevaldson and Peter Jones.

Book: Systems Concepts in Action

The book Systems Concepts In Action : A Practitioner's Toolkit by Richard Hummelbrunner and Bob Williams is focused on the practical use of systems ideas. It describes 19 commonly used systems approaches, complete with case studies, variations and discussion of each approach's pros and cons. Each chapter begins with a set of questions that the particular method addresses.

Ashby aphorism cards

Ross Ashby photo Ross Ashby left a collection of cards with short pithy and often entertaining aphorisms or truth snippets. Fascinating and useful they give insight into Ross' thinking. The members of the Ashby Estate have collected them together into groups and transcribed them at:

http://www.rossashby.info/aphorisms.html

DISCOUNT! Systems Thinking by Bill Hutchinson

Book Discount! Praxis Education is offering ANZSYS members and friends a 50% discount ($4.99) on the last of the original first edition copies of Systems Thinking and Associated Methodologies by Bill Hutchinson, one of the founders of ANZSYS. To buy use the coupon ANZSYS in the online bookshop at https://www.praxiseducation.com/index.php/product/10-systems-thinking-and-associated-methodologies-book

Systems and Organisation Management (lectures)

A series of 40 lectures in 3 modules about the use of Systems in Organization Management by Prof. Vinayshil Gautam, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. Here is the first lecture:

For access to all the lectures go to:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCD408E74E6E853F3

Made available by the by the National Programme of Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) of the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. See http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Soft Systems - Dr John Mackness

Video of Dr John Mackness discussing Soft Systems Methodology. John is a colleague of Peter Checkland

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