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

Complex Systems Society

The Complex Systems Society promotes complex systems research, advises on  complex systems education, and the relationships between complex systems and society by linking complex systems scientists of different countries. CSS also contains the Complex Systems Registry.

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Insight Maker Free Online Software

Insight Maker is a free online systems modelling software.  The online software provides a variety of systems modelling tools and is particularly strong in Systems Dynamics and Agent-based modelling. The website also contains many useful sample models and simulations. The cost is your model/simulation is available to Insight Maker.

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System Dynamics and Strategy

Lecture - Reflections on System Dynamics and Strategy by John Morecroft, London Business School

Book - complex systems & human evolution

New systems book 'Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield: A Complexity Perspective on Human Evolution from a Violent Past to a Compassionate Future' by Victor R. D. MacGill.  Comment by Alexander Lazlo, President ISSS 'MacGill provides an accessible entrée for the thinking and caring person wishing to make sense of an increasingly complex and apparently chaotic world.'

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Join the ANZSYS system community now! It's FREE! Register your name and email address and we will send you interesting info about systems conferences, books, courses, methods, tools,  events, special offers, free coffee. . . in fact anything that might be of interest to systems researchers and practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and this side of the universe.

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Been to a great systems conference? Write a review! Send photos!  Reviews and photos of systems events will be published on the ANZSYS website.

Free eBook 'Disciplining Interdisciplinarity'

New book Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems by Prof Gabrielle Bammer and published by ANU E-Press and is now available free online at http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/disciplining-interdisciplinarity.