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Book: Differences by Ackoff

Book: DIFFERENCES that make a Difference by Russ Ackoff is now published by Triarchy Press. The simple philosophy behind Differences That Make a Difference is that complicated problems can often be avoided if you take a moment to define your terms at the outset. Ackoff's aim was to dissolve (not solve or resolve) some of the many disputes in professional and private life that he saw as the result of quite basic instances of miscommunication and misunderstanding.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Ashby aphorism cards

Ross Ashby photoRoss 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

Complex Systems Society

complex systems society logoThe 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 logoInsight 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.

To register your name and address, simply go to the login menu on the right side of the screen and 'create an account' to join the ANZSYS community mailing list. If you know others in this part of the world who are interested in systems and might enjoy receiving information from the ANZSYS systems community please pass the information on to them.

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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.

Ackoff's 'The Cake'

New book: Ackoff's F/laws: The Cake by Russell L. Ackoff (with Herbert J. Addison). Russ Ackoff’s witty and subversive  122 F/laws of Management are widely respected and cover areas like hierarchy, teams, innovation, motivation and management. This book brings them together in a single source.

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Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations

New systems book by Rosalind Armson 'Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations'. With some problems it’s hard to know where to start – we can’t define them, we get in a muddle thinking about them, we may try to ignore some aspect/s of them and – when we finally do something – they usually get worse. Rosalind Armson is one of the world’s foremost teachers and practitioners of Systems Thinking, and her remarkable book explains how these messes happen and what to do about them.

This book is about dealing with messes. Sometimes known as 'wicked problems', messes (or messy situations) are fairly easy to spot:

  • it's hard to know where to start
  • we can't define them
  • everything seems to connect to everything else and depends on something else having been done first
  • we get in a muddle thinking about them
  • we often try to ignore some aspect/s of them
  • when we finally do something about them, they usually get worse
  • they're so entangled that our first mistake is usually to try and fix them as we would fix a simple problem.

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Stratfor

For those interested in geo-political systems analysis, Stratfor is offering a range of information services, including their free Intelligence Reports.

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Masters: Systems Thinking at Open University

New Masters Program in "Systems Thinking in Practice" now underway at the Open University (UK)

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Work of John Bowlby

The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) was commissioned to produce a report on the work of John Bowlby of Stanford and the Tavistock Institute. The report is available here.

System Dynamics assistance?

Looking for help with System Dynamics in general or Vensim? There are two forums recommended by Bob Eberlein.

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Systems Books

A new addition to the website is a listing of systems books via 'Publications on the menu on the left.

Please feel free to add more books or email me the details of any that you feel are useful for people to know about (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Best wishes,

Terry

Systems Thinking eBook


Systems Thinking and Associated Methodologies by Prof Bill Hutchinson is now available as a pdf eBook from Praxis Education ($4.99) from www.praxiseducation.com/catalog/ebooks-c-28.html

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