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M & A as strategy;  Participatory Innovation Model in Chile;  Notes from the open meeting: 7th April 2014;  In memoriam - Simon Beer; CIGs (Common Interest Groups); Open meeting - July 2014
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Spring 2014;  Bookworm:  A Journey Through The Systems Landscape,  Harold “Bud” Lawson, College Publications 2010 ISBN 9-781848-900103;  Open Notes: notes from the open day on 13th January 2014; Open meeting: 7th April 2014; Thinking survey
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OMM for mobile devices;  "Innovation";  SCiO open day: 13th January; All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management (APPGM);  Open Notes: notes from the open day on 13th October;  SCiO Development Day
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Thinking in Systems – A Primer. Donella Meadows. London: Earthscan (2009) 210pp. ISBN 9781844077267;  Modelling SCiO using the Viable Systems Model- Modelling SCiO as a Viable System – Roger Duck;  Cwarel Isaf Cottage: The place to BE.- Jan Kuiper;  SCiO Development Day Manchester 6th October – Jane Searles;  The Human Cost of Control - part 1 - David Bovis;  The Perils of Kindness – The first in a series of systemic refl... Read more
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The Magical Management Mystery Tour – Gordon Kennedy;  Book Review: What Would Drucker Do Now? Solutions to Today's Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management. Rick Wartzmann, McGraw Hill 2012;  Debt: the first 5000 years - by David Graeber;  Systems Thinking Approaches or Approaches to Systems Thinking? - Geoff Elliott & Roger James;  An investigation into the use of a personal VSM – David Robinson
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Reflections on the year ahead – Patrick Hoverstadt; Evolving the Professional Development Programme in SCiO – Roger Duck & Elizabeth McDonnell; Book Review: Learning for Action – A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students.  Peter Checkland and John Poulter; Wiley (2010) – ISBN 0470025549; Learning to eat soup with a knife: John A Nagl. University of Chicago Press ISBN-13978... Read more
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The Unreal Economy – Patrick Hoverstadt; The Systems Thinking Landscape – Geoff Elliott; Stafford Beer and the Course of History- Rod Thomas; Systemic Leadership – William Tate
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Three Day Transformation - Reflections on the Third Cwarel Isaf Conference on Management Cybernetics, 30 March – 1 April 2011, St Gallen, Switzerland; The Event in the South: report of the first SCiO Open Meeting in London. Lessons from a sports association study—part 3 Some modelling experiences. Denis Adams
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OMM Update - The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model;  Fractal Life, Lessons from a sports association study - part 2 – Denis Adams
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The SCiO Professional Development Programme (PDP); The OMM (Organisational Maturity Model); Lessons from a Sports Association Study — Denis Adams;  Book Review: Think before you Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing‘. Stafford Beer, ed David Whittaker
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SCiO Professional Development Programme - A different model of professional development
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Stories: At Last - The First Meeting with Stafford Beer; An opportunity to develop your systems thinking in practice - a new modular OU MSc: Systems Thinking in Practice; Book Reviews: Systems Thinkers. Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp. Springer; 316pp. edition (18 Sep 2009) ISBN: 978-1848825246; Systems Approaches to managing change: a practical guide. Ed. Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell. Springer; 309pp edition (15 Mar 2010) ISBN 978-1848828087
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Feedback from the SCiO survey; Update on The SCiO Organisational Maturity Model; VSM training; Elections to board; Bookworm: Future Ready How to Master Business forecasting (1st Edition); Website update; Communications;  Next open meeting; Development day;  Mandelbulbs
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