Ressourcen
Please search or filter the resources to find those of interest to you. If you are a non-member, you will not be able to see all the videos and presentations from past SCiO Open Meetings.
To find videos of Open Meeting sessions, filter on Resource type "Session" and Attachment "Yes".
Green blob means: "The material is in the public domain, you may reuse with accreditation."
Orange blob means: "The content is company confidential or content confidential, the approach may be open, please contact the author before using."
Red blob means: "Everything is protected, please contact the author before using."
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
Jane has used an approach which attempts to map the various customer needs within complex public sector services for several client organisations. Jane will describe how the Circles of Need® approach has transformed the client understanding to such an extent that radical re-design has been feasible. In addition, she will reflect on the role and power of systems thinking and relate it to the roles in the VSM.
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
RRP: £1; Hardcover: 358 ppp; Publisher: Wiley;1st edition; Language: English; ISBN 978-0470747056
The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the process of forecasting is badly brok... Read more
RRP: 49,00 € Hardback 342 pages ISBN : 3258074941 Publisher : Haupt Verlag AG (1 Aug. 2009) Language : German
Dieses Buch richtet sich an jene Führungskräfte, die den grundlegenden Charakter der Organisationen, in denen sie handeln, besser verstehen wollen. Die Organisationen einer modernen Gesellschaft sind zum größten Teil hochkomplexe Systeme, die wir nicht - wie weithin üblich - als Maschi... Read more
RRP: £25.39 Paperback: 338 pages Publisher: Wiley (24 July 2009) ISBN: 0470060565
The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested systemic approach to buildi... Read more
RRP: £35 Paperback : 424 pages ISBN : 0321658396 Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (10 July 2009) Language: : English
Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects
Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using... Read more
There will be a SCiO sub-group update, with an interactive element, this time instead of a workshop. Dave Mettam will be updating us on the Organisational Maturity Model produced for SCiO by the OMM sub-group.
This session will look at the way that recursive structures create dilemmas for organisations, how these dilemmas translate into ethical problems for the organisations and individuals involved and the role of leadership in resolving these ethical dilemmas.
The argument is that this is a normal process for complex organisations and that using a recursive model provides a framework for understanding how ethical problems are formed and can be resol... Read more