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Leading Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations (30 November 2021) by Rohini Anand. SystemsWiki’s Musings by Gene Bellinger. Welcome to SystemsWiki’s Musings exploring how deeper understanding relationships and their implications can enable more effective action.

SystemsWiki’s Musings by Gene Bellinger

I initially started developing simulation models in 1975 in GPSS on an IBM 360 computer. Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (2003) by Michael C. Jackson. On the Berkana Two Loops Model of systems or paradigm change as imagined in visual form by Cassie Robinson. Podcast: Organizational Ecology, With Joan Lurie. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Joan Lurie, CEO of Orgonomix (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) joins Managing Editor Brian Gorman in this exploration of change management through a very different lens.

Podcast: Organizational Ecology, With Joan Lurie

Approaching organizations as ecosystems and sub-systems, Joan describes the key elements of the ecosystem to focus on in order to guide the change to success. Why We Have Systems. Why do we maintain systems?

Why We Have Systems

Particularly in this era of always-on, inter-connected and infinitely available information, what’s the point of trying to maintain information on our own, for our own personal use and reference? It’s an interesting question, and some people have decided to ask and answer with, “I don’t need to.” Uncharted Territories by Tomas Pueyo. The Entropy of Systems. A dear friend of mine has a favourite saying from Henry Adams: “Chaos was the law of nature.

The Entropy of Systems

Order was the dream of man.” It’s a great quote, and quite telling. Our quest for organization and structure is a Sisyphean uphill quest against the relentless forces of nature that are determined to drag us back down. I’m in large part living this reality right now. I’ve been striving to get organized—although, to put not-too-fine-a-point on it, I’ve been striving for organization for thirty-plus years, with fleeting and varied success. On-demand webinar: The Individual and the System: A Dual Lens on Change Management, With Ochuko Igbeyi. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | In this episode of the Change Management Review™ Podcast, Brian Gorman interviews Ogheneochuko (Ochuko) Igbeyi – an experienced change leadership advocate in financial services with over 20 years multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural experience in Nigeria, West Africa, and Canada.

On-demand webinar: The Individual and the System: A Dual Lens on Change Management, With Ochuko Igbeyi

He is PMP and Change Management certified with practical experience in product management, process improvement and relationship management. Ochuko has a passion for personal development, continuous improvement, building strong relationships by inspiring with humour and empathy. LinkedIn by Dr. Richard Claydon. Stewardship: A New Employment Covenant. The latest casualty of the changes sweeping through corporate America is the lifetime employment contract — the implicit agreement that provided employees with economic security in exchange for doing whatever work was necessary to keep the enterprise running.

Stewardship: A New Employment Covenant

According to Fortune magazine, the new employment deal goes something like this: “There will never be job security. You will be employed by us as long as you add value to the organization, and you are continuously responsible for finding ways to add value. Practical guide to workforce ecosystems. At the same time, most workforce-related practices, systems, and processes focus on employees, not external contributors.

Practical guide to workforce ecosystems

Workforce planning, talent acquisition, performance management, and compensation policies, for example, all tend to focus on full-time (and sometimes part-time) employees. Consequently, organizations often lack an integrated approach to managing a workforce in which external workers play a large role. As one of the executives we interviewed for this report told us, “Wouldn’t it make sense to become just as mature about managing this segment of the workforce, which can be even bigger than your payroll workers?” A Framework for Working in Ecosystems. Practical guide to workforce ecosystems. How Do You Manage a Business Ecosystem? The framework covers the five main building blocks that must be used in managing a business ecosystem: Mission: What are the common purpose and culture that guide and align the stakeholders of the ecosystem?

How Do You Manage a Business Ecosystem?

Access: Who is allowed to enter the ecosystem, and what level of commitment in terms of exclusiveness and/or specific co-investment is required? Participation: How are decision rights distributed among ecosystem stakeholders, how transparent are the governance model and strategic roadmap, and how are conflicts resolved? Conduct: How is the behavior of ecosystem stakeholders regulated by controlling the input they provide, the process they need to follow, and the output they generate? A New Path to Understanding Systems Thinking. Many readers will recognize this scenario: A group in your department is planning a highly complex project, but the conversations you’re hearing about it center only on immediate, individual interests and the need for short-term deliverables.

A New Path to Understanding Systems Thinking

A week later, the project comes to a halt because the team discovers that the initiative is negatively affecting another department. Conflict and blame ensue. Just like the rest of the world, functions within our organizations are increasingly interconnected and interdependent. Complex situations requiring a systemic approach are much more common than in the past. Nonetheless, many leaders and managers regularly use linear thinking, with its sequential, short-term focus on individual parts, which not only creates more complications, but also frustrates those of us who seem to “naturally” use systems thinking. Nordisk Ministerråd - Nordic Council of Ministers. ​It is seven in the morning on 18 May 2030 in a Nordic capital city.

Nordisk Ministerråd - Nordic Council of Ministers

Line Mwangi is lying awake in bed, excited about the day ahead. The aroma of her fresh mushroom coffee lingers in the air as her husband helps get their son Erik ready for school. Complex systems science allows us to see new paths forward. We’re at a unique moment in the 200,000 years or so that Homo sapiens have walked the Earth. For the first time in that long history, humans are capable of coordinating on a global scale, using fine-grained data on individual behaviour, to design robust and adaptable social systems. The pandemic of 2019-20 has brought home this potential. Never before has there been a collective, empirically informed response of the magnitude that COVID-19 has demanded. Yes, the response has been ambivalent, uneven and chaotic – we are fumbling in low light, but it’s the low light of dawn.

Five Horizons of Systems Mastery. What does it take to become a rounded systems practitioner? In common parlance ‘systems thinking’ is understood as ‘thinking in systems’ (as the title of Donella Meadows’ posthumously published, widely read book suggests). It relies on systems concepts — such as stocks, flows, feedback loops, network and hierarchy — to structure the problem solving process in relation to particular design challenges.

‘Systems practice’ goes beyond that. It is ‘systems thinking and doing’, or ‘system praxis’. Videos from INTERSECTION20 - The great Summit 10-14 November 2020. Step into System Innovation - A festival of ideas and insights. What is a cookie? A cookie is a small datafile that is saved on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. A cookie is not a program that can contain harmful programs or viruses. How/why the homepage uses cookies Cookies are necessary for the homepage to function. A systems thinking model: the iceberg model. Systems thinking is a way of approaching problems that asks how various elements within a system — which could be an ecosystem, an organization, or something more dispersed such as a supply chain — influence one another.

Rather than reacting to individual problems that arise, a systems thinker will ask about relationships to other activities within the system, look for patterns over time, and seek root causes. One systems thinking model that is helpful for understanding global issues is the iceberg model. We know that an iceberg has only 10 percent of its total mass above the water while 90 percent is underwater.

But that 90 percent is what the ocean currents act on, and what creates the iceberg’s behavior at its tip. Réflexions et repères à propos du changement systémique en entreprise, basé sur les stratégies types 1 et 2 de l’École de Palo Alto. J’ai décidé de publier une série d’articles portant sur des stratégies systémiques globales et ponctuelles. Elles illustrent des actions pour modifier des relations au sein de systèmes afin d’aider des acteurs à s’engager dans une dynamique de changement.

How does building new systems produce organizational change. When can we talk about our systems? Report: Transforming Systems For a Better Future. Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide, 2nd Ed. (2020) by Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell (Retired) On the sustainability of a system in a change process. The Unicist Evolutionary Approach to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome! Welcome to the Scientific Collaboration Space.

The Unicist Research Institute by Peter Belohlavek. Abstract. What's Your WHY Behind Change Capability. Rethinking the boundaries of your organizational (eco)system. When Collective Impact has an Impact: A Cross-Site Study of 25 Collective Impact Initiatives. The research study “When Collective Impact Has an Impact: A Cross-Site Study of 25 Collective Impact Initiatives,” conducted by a research team from the organizations ORS Impact and the Spark Policy Institute, looks at the question of “To what extent and under what conditions does the collective impact approach contribute to systems and population changes?” To explore these questions, the research team studied 25 sites and has generated a rich set of findings that we hope will be useful for the field of collective impact practitioners, community members, funders, researchers, and evaluators.

The research team looked at how the collective impact approach contributed to each initiative’s ability to achieve systems changes to population changes, including: The Six Conditions of Systems Change (On demand webinar) What Gives Life to Large System Change? by Sandra Waddock and Petra Kuenkel (2019) Sociocracy. The Operating System Of The New Economy. The Water of Systems Change. Enterprise systems are being replaced - what’s driving it and what to expect. Managing Change? Manage Your Environment. The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems. The Six Conditions of Systems Change.

The Best Books to Understand Complex Systems – The Mission. The Water of Systems Change. Achieving Systems Change in Collective Impact (Virtual Coffee Discussion) Your Organization Is a Network of Conversations. Les RH doivent-elles se transformer ? Criticality: How Changes Preserve Stability in Self-Organizing Systems - Philippe Accard, 2018. The Water of Systems Change. Systemic Transformation - Part 2. Systemic Transformation - Part 1. The Death of Supply Chain Management. Henry Mintzberg’s Blog.